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Deadheading help

CraighBCraighB Posts: 758
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Hi guys,

In struggling a little with how to deadhead certain plants and wondered if anyone could help? My aim is to keep the plant flowering...

First of all I have a Geum. Do you take of each individual spent flower, OR wait until each flower has faded and then cut the whole stem to the base, OR do you cut the whole plant including basal to the ground after every flower has faded?

I also have a Gaura. It produces tons of wirery stems with flowers at the end. Do I cut each stem just below where the flowers start after they have faded OR do I cut each stem further back to the base!

Thank you :)

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  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    With geums, I pinch off the individual dead flowers until the whole stem has finished flowering then cut the stem back.
    SW Scotland
  • CraighBCraighB Posts: 758
    And do yours flower again Joyce?
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Usually Craig. I give them a feed of tomato fertiliser.
    SW Scotland
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    There is no need to deadhead Gaura plants. Let them flower all the way up. If you have a young plant and there aren't that many stems yet, you could cut the stems down quite hard now and no later, you should get more stems than before starting to grow back in late summer to early autumn. Same should be done next year in April time to encourage more stems. 
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