Deadheading your flowers is an easy garden task, but is it completely necessary? The answer is sometimes! Deadheading, or removing spent blooms and seed pods, encourages some annuals to bloom over and ...

Closeup of pinkish-white hibiscus flower with long red stamen. - Tomekbudujedomek/Getty Images The striking flowers of hibiscus (Hibiscus spp.) are a summertime delight. With eye-catching colors ...

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, ...

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 ...

Blanket flower, also known as gaillardia, is a titillatingly exuberant border plant that sets a blaze of color across any garden and flowers profusely in excited fecundity. It grows and flowers at an ...

Deadheading is an essential practice in the garden, one that encourages beautiful, well-maintained flowers. In short, the process involves removing spent buds; doing so redirects the plant's energy ...

Deadheading dahlias regularly is key to a long, vigorous blooming season. Fading blooms should be deadheaded as soon as the flower centers start opening. Making deep cuts when deadheading encourages a ...

After we bid farewell to the warm embrace of summer, autumn heralds a time for gardeners to prune and deadhead - ensuring their gardens remain a riot of colour. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) ...

Tiare, or Tahitian gardenia, makes a lei that can last for several days. Pictured is a lei made from rainbow plumeria and tiare buds. You should snap off that part on a daily or weekly basis or tiare ...

(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 ...

A gardening expert has shared their top tips to encourage a second flush of flowers on their rose bushes this summer. Tom Harris has spoken about deadheading roses, but how you have to get them at the ...