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Gavin FitzpatrickGavin Fitzpatrick Posts: 3
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can anyone help me please, i am a new to gardening and i have several Echinecias growing throughout my garden, just want to know, do you dead head them once the the flower is fading like you do with pansies, does it encourage more blooms throughout  the summer?

any tips will be much appreciated

Thanks

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    if you dead head plants it stops them putting energy into seed making so you'll get more growth. Some plants will flower again. I've just got my first echinacea to flower so too soon for me to say. 

    I'm a great seed collector so I don't do much dead heading and some perennials stand tall and brown through the winter, protecting the plant, the insects and looking great with frost on



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Gavin FitzpatrickGavin Fitzpatrick Posts: 3

    Thanks to you both for your replies.

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,612

    and next spring the slugs will love them almost as much as delphiniums.

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