Deadheading - which have to be??

19 years ago

I read and read about my flowers, but I guess my old tired mind just can't keep in all the info--probably because I read too much and get mixed up. Which flowers will not bloom again unless they are deadheaded? Coneflowers and geraniums are just about the only ones that I deadhead constantly.

How about butterfly bush? The blooms on mine are drying out now, but the birds still like them, so I have left them on. I think the cat's whiskers plants have become one of my favorites because they bloom constantly, don't seem to need to be deadheaded, and the hummingbirds love them. Here is a recent picture. I read that these come in lavender also--does anyone have seeds for them, I sure would like to grow one between these two white ones.

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This Melampodium showstar, is another favorite, and it doesn't seem to need deadheading, because it has not stopped blooming. Also the porter's weed behind it.

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It is so hot here - 97 today with a heat index of 108, that I hate deadheading. As several others said, I am looking for more long blooming flowers, that don't need deadheading.

Let me know some of your favorites.

Thanks, Jeane

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vera_eastern_wa
19 years ago
Bushes are an all toghether different thing....in most cases they need pruning at a specific time of the year depending on bloom time. The following link has a paragraph about pruning Butterfly Bushes towards the end.

As for flowers I dead-head or pinch off flowers on just about everything except Echinacea, Rudbeckia, Profusion Zinnia for repeat blooms. Some plants I just cut back by half when most flowers become faded...Scabiosa, Blue Flax, Linaria, Alyssum and a few more I'm not thinking about...oh yes, I did that with Yarrow this year and wasn't long before re-blooming :D
I stop with ALL deadheading right about now on anything I plan on collecting seed from.

Vera
gardner-want-to-be
Original Author
19 years ago
Vera,
I am really interested in what to do with my butterfly bushes. I cut off a couple of drying flowers and put them in a paper bag--I don't know if this is what I should do to the rest of them or what.

I also cut a couple dried heads off my cone flower, that is all that I had this year--2 --hope for lots more next year.

I picked some seeds pods off the balsam impatients and also off the black & blue sage bush. Also cut some dying pods off the Porter's weed and cat's whiskers. Don't know if they have seed in them or not, but I put them in a small paper bag to leave them to dry and see what they do.

I went over to a friends today and got some white and purple angel trumpet and a few tiger lily seeds. Their flowers are so beautiful. Hope I can get some of these to germinate.

I have learned so much about planting seeds this past year--now I have to learn more about getting the seeds. Thanks for all the help.

I love looking at your garden pictures, they are all so beautiful.
Jeane
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