Here’s how and when to deadhead your hydrangeas to keep them beautiful.

In general, perennials don't need deadheading, but many can benefit from it. The frequency of deadheading depends on the plant and your gardening goals. Self-cleaning and re-seeding perennials don't ...

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 ...

Deadheading is an important but often poorly understood and underutilized gardening technique. This rather morbid term simply refers to pruning off old, faded flowers from a plant as it blooms. It is ...

Deadheading flowering plants is a basic and important part of maintaining beautiful gardens. With many ornamentals, removing spent flowers is a personal choice; however, there are some that need ...

March is the perfect moment to freshen up borders by deadheading. Keep reading for the 11 plants to deadhead in March for ...

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.

Autumn-blooming plants are a salve to gardeners who are struggling to cope with the prospect of a lifeless, barren fall, especially after a vibrant and successful summer. In fact, some surprisingly ...

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 ...