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Plant life cycle - flower removal

alfharris8alfharris8 Posts: 513
in Plants
I have some heuchera in a border where the flowers blend in well at this time of year but clash a bit colour wise when other things get going. 
If I continously remove the flowers later on (the foliage is fine) will it affect the plants health, life cycle or anything else detrimentally? Thank you 

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    No, it shouldn't make any difference whatsoever  :)
    I usually deadhead mine, if I see them, but it's also a good time to divide them, or just pull pieces off with a little bit of root, for making new plants. They're very easy.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited May 2023
    Colour matching and clashing is a taste thing.  Not allowed in out woke environment.

    Removing flower and seedheads will allow the plants to concentrate on making growth for next year.  But I thought Heuchers were more about leaves than flowers.

    By the way, I read more about gardening than I speak/listen.  How does one pronounce Heuchera?  yoo as in Europe? oo as in look? uh as in look? er as in Nederlands? oi as in Deutsch?
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Yoo-che-ra.

    @bédé such a drama queen with your first paragraph! 🤣
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Taste has nothing to do with wokeism, and should probably only apply to food.
    In gardening, as in music, there is stuff YOU like, and stuff YOU don't, NOT good taste and bad taste.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    No huh, then @Slow-worm ?  I thought it was hewkerrah. I don't grow them so I'll never need to say it😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Hugh-chera, with the emphasis on hugh, and the ch pronounced the same as in loch, not as in clock. I expect English people can't manage that though  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You just have to pretend you're hawking as in  No Hawking or Spitting.?
     ( ps I know what hawking really means😉)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    I'm a Brummie, we generally ignore an H 😄 But I did hear Charlie Dimmock or Alan T, or someone knowledgable pronounce it the same once.
  • alfharris8alfharris8 Posts: 513
    @B3 I thought it they way you pronounced but perhaps not. 
    What about Clematis? Ha ha.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'm with ah not ay equal stress on all syllables hydrangea not hydrainjar
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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