Deadheading 101: Keep Your Flowers Blooming Strong

Want to keep your garden colorful all summer long? Deadheading is the secret! This simple garden task encourages more blooms, tidies up your plants, and keeps everything looking fresh.

🌸 What Is Deadheading?
Deadheading means removing spent or faded flowers from your plants. This helps redirect the plant’s energy into producing new blooms instead of seed.

✂️ How To Do It

• Use clean garden scissors or pinch with your fingers.

• Snip just above the first set of healthy leaves or buds below the spent flower.

• Deadhead regularly for the best results—once or twice a week is usually enough!

🌼 Plants That Love Deadheading

• Annuals: Petunias, zinnias, marigolds, cosmos, geraniums

• Perennials: Coneflowers, salvia, coreopsis, black-eyed Susans

• Roses: Especially repeat-blooming varieties

🌿 Plants That Don’t Need It
Some plants are “self-cleaning” and drop their flowers on their own—no work needed! Look for calibrachoa, impatiens, and some modern petunia varieties.

Not sure what to deadhead or how? Stop by The Farmer’s Daughter and we’ll show you! A quick trim now means a longer, more beautiful show of blooms all season long.