If you take the time to plant and cultivate flowers, you want them to thrive as best they can. Deadheading doesn’t cost a dime or require any special equipment, and it can yield a long season of ...

Want to show off your green thumb in the garden this summer? Add deadheading flowers to your bag of tricks. It simply means trimming or pinching wilted flowers off your plants, and it’s an easy way to ...

There are plenty of plant care techniques that help growers yield greater gains, like wiring and “screen of green” netting that help plants grow higher and reach more sun. And of course there’s ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Not all flowers benefit from deadheading—and for those that do, you need to cut more plant away to be beneficial. Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and ...

A common deed in the August garden is what gardeners call “deadheading.” This somewhat morbid term is a form of plant-cutting that involves snipping or pinching off flowers after they’ve finished ...

Deadheading is an important task for any flower garden, but there's a right time and wrong time to do this task, depending on what you are growing.

To keep your garden looking its best all summer long, consider a bit of deadheading. Removing faded flowers can promote repeat blooms on some plants, encourage fuller, more compact growth, and tidy up ...

When the calendar reaches August each summer, many flowering plants are near the end of the first act of the glorious show they orchestrate in our landscapes each season. This is the time when many of ...

(Illustration by Tony O. Champagne, NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune archive) QUESTION: When you say deadhead, what are you referring to and how should it be done properly? I have trimmed back mums with ...