Avoiding Deadheading
Planning is the key to cutting down on your deadheading chores. Find out which shrubs, perennials, and annuals you should choose if you're interested in a low-maintenance garden. If you want a low-maintenance garden, deadheading (removing the ... [... more]
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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning ...
 Love this book.: This book has helped me more than any other on the subject. I appreciate the way that it is organized. It and jflex-5 (for my pain and flexibility) have made my gardening experience more enjoyable. I also like the low price that Amazon [... more]
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The Complete Container Garden
From Amazon.com: Equal parts gorgeous and practical, Reader's Digest's The Complete Container Garden provides clear and straightforward advice accompanied by brightly colored close-up photography. From spring bulbs to winter berries, the range of plants [... more]
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A Breath from Elsewhere: Musings on Gardens
From Amazon.com: "The charm of gardening is that as everything is forever on the move, you can change and alter things as you go along.... Whatever nourishes your impulses should be your launching pad," writes Mirabel Osler, underlining her [... more]
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A Garden Full of Deadheads
Prolong your flowering season, make the garden tidier and prevent beloved plants from becoming pests. How? Deadheading! It's easy once you have a few basic strategies down. I sometimes think that the short history of the flower is parallel to ... [... more]
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The Self-Cleaning Garden
An enormous amount of our gardening time is taken up by small chores like deadheading and cleaning up the resulting debris. So why not buy plants that clean up after themselves? If only there was such a thing. A garden that would open up ... [... more]
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Peak Season Chores in the Garden - the Three D's
Peak season in the garden may mean that the strenuous work is done for a while. But to keep the garden looking great you must keep up with the big 3 D's - deadheading, de-stemming and de-leafing. Have you ever noticed that in every summer there ... [... more]
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Yard and Garden Planning Reader Questions
Readers ask questions about dividing and deadheading perennials as well as overwintering coleus and fish in a water garden. Home » Plants & Animals » Garden Planning » Yard and Garden Planning Reader Questions From time to time, I [... more]
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Rose Hips
If you're a regular reader of this column, you know all about the attributes of "deadheading." This horticultural term simply refers to removing spent flowers to encourage more blooms. Well, forget all of that. Now, I'm recommending that you [... more]
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A Collection of Heirlooms: Antique Roses, Part 1
Tired of thinking of roses as high maintenance and lovely nusiances? Try the antique roses! Unlike it's haughty cousin, the hybrid tea rose, which takes endless tending, spraying and deadheading, an antique rose is almost carefree. Some, like the ... [... more]
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Deadheading Flowers
Let's be honest. Not all gardening chores are equal. For instance, while I know weeds are ugly and sap nutrients from "good" plants, I have a hard time keeping up with pulling weeds. It seems no matter how diligent I am, there's always a new [... more]
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Benefits of Deadheading Roses
Disbudding roses promotes more bloom, conserves plant energy, reduces pests and diseases, and gives you something to do in the summer rose garden. Here's how! Deadheading , the removal of spent blossoms with the aim of forcing a plant to rebloom, ... [... more]
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