🌸 Deadheading 101: Keep Your Flowers Blooming Strong 🌸

Want to keep your garden looking fresh and full of flowers? Deadheading is the secret! ✂️🌼

What Is Deadheading?
Deadheading simply means removing faded or spent blooms from your plants. By snipping off old flowers, you’re telling the plant to stop making seeds and keep putting energy into new blooms instead!

Why Deadhead?
✅ Encourages more flowers
✅ Keeps plants looking neat
✅ Prevents unwanted reseeding
✅ Helps some perennials rebloom

How To Do It:

• Use clean, sharp scissors or pruners.

• Cut just above a set of healthy leaves or a new bud.

• For bushy plants like petunias or zinnias, pinch with your fingers if you don’t have tools handy.

Plants That LOVE Deadheading:
🌺 Petunias
🌼 Geraniums
🌸 Marigolds
💜 Salvia
💗 Coneflowers
🌿 Bee Balm
🌹 Roses (like Knock Outs!)

Low-Maintenance Bonus:
Some plants are “self-cleaning,” meaning they drop spent blooms on their own—like many Proven Winners® annuals! But even they benefit from a little tidy-up midseason.

🪴 Need tools or guidance? Stop in and let us show you how—it’s quick, satisfying, and keeps your garden in full color all season long.

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🌼 Join us in the Plant a Pollinator movement—deadheading helps keep nectar flowing and your garden buzzing with bees and butterflies!

Let’s keep those blooms going strong—happy snipping! ✂️💐