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Todeadhead your bushes, either pinch off the spent blooms with your fingers, or cut them with hand pruners. When the flowers are removed, it encourages the shrub to bush out and will often give you more blooms later. Spent blooms can be added to yourcompost pileand will turn intoorganic ...
Deadhead spent oleander flowers to encourage new blooms. Wait until fall after peak bloom to prune. Remove dead and diseased branches and shape as needed. To rejuvenate older or overgrown plants, cut 1/3 of the largest stems back to the ground. Cut remaining stems back by 1/4 of their he...
Be sure to deadhead (pick off) these spent blossoms to make room for new blooms. Regular deadheading of Hibiscus will extend the bloom time. Don’t allow your Rose of Sharon hibiscus tree to go to seed. Be sure to cut back unwanted blooms before they have had a chance to produce seeds...
Other than deadheading the dahlias, which I toss back into the garden, it is a no deadhead garden. It is a haven for pollinators. This is the garden I see walking down the path to my raised beds, but, I also see it from my family room windows. I learn so much from my favorite...