Gentle pruning encourages these hard-working plants to deliver wave after wave of blooms. Zinnias are gorgeous flowering annuals that attract butterflies to the garden and make excellent cut flowers.

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 ...

Learning how to deadhead petunias is essential to keeping most varieties in full flower for as long as possible. Deadheading just means removing spent flowers. Don't worry—it's a snap. This guide ...

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 ...

THERE are a number of gardening jobs that you can do now that your lawn will thank you for in the warmer months. With winter ...

Deadheading is essential. It's surprising how many people do it wrong. Don't just pull off the faded flower. Remove the flower, seed capsule and stem, depending on the kind of plant. Deadheading ...

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 ...

This is a reminder to keep deadheading your perennial flowers. Daylilies are famous for quickly producing seed pods after they have finished blooming. Make certain you take off the entire seed head.

Deadheading your flowering plants is an important task to keep up with as a gardener. While deadheading some common flowers is a mistake any time of year, most flowering plants benefit from the ...