When the calendar reaches August each summer, many flowering plants are near the end of the first act of the glorious show they orchestrate in our landscapes each season. This is the time when many of ...

Savvy gardeners know that deadheading spent blooms keeps annuals and many perennial plants looking their best week after week. But not all plants require deadheading. Some plants continue to bloom ...

Deadheading, the removal of spent blooms, encourages new growth and more flowers. Annuals like zinnias and marigolds benefit from frequent deadheading, while others like impatiens are self-deadheading ...

These single stem flowers are here for a good time, not a long time—they won't produce more flowers if you deadhead them. Plants are simple: They start as a seed then grow stalks, leaves, and stems.

Q: My friend has a large jade plant and it is blooming like an explosion of white fireworks. I didn’t even know jade plants bloomed. Many of her Facebook friends are saying the same thing: They have ...

Keep blooms in your garden well into fall. The end of summer may seem like a slow time in the garden as heat stresses plants, bloom production begins to reduce, and growth begins to slow, but it’s the ...