WHY SHOULD I DEADHEAD FLOWERS?

Deadheading your plants can encourage a second bloom of flowers, giving you a more colourful garden for longer – sometimes even until the first frosts!

The idea that snipping off flowers produces more flowers sounds a bit backwards, but the reason deadheading works is because the plant’s energy is focussed into forming new flowers rather than producing fruits or seeds

Other reasons to deadhead your plants includes preventing dead flowers from rotting and causing disease or infection and making your garden look better – dead flowers don’t look very nice!

Deadheading your bulbs is useful too, as it diverts the plant’s energy back to the bulb, which then increases the chances of it flowering again the following year

As you can see there are lots of benefits to deadheading. Now all you need to do is a grab a sharp pair of secateurs and get ready to snip!