Knowing how to deadhead mums can help prolong blooming and keep your plants looking their best all season long. Removing faded flowers (called deadheading) interrupts the plant's goal of making seeds.

Knowing when and how to deadhead mums can help prolong blooming and keep your plants looking their best all season long. Removing faded flowers (called deadheading) interrupts the plant's goal of ...

Key Points Deadhead container mums to get more blooms and extend color into fall.Don’t prune hardy mums in fall—wait until spring for better growth.Water well, give full sun, and wait for cooler temps ...

Mums could be the official flower of fall, but if you want those beautiful autumn blooms, here's what you need to know about pruning and deadheading.

Deadheading your flowers is an easy garden task, but is it completely necessary? The answer is sometimes! Deadheading, or removing spent blooms and seed pods, encourages some annuals to bloom over and ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

There are plenty of plant care techniques that help growers yield greater gains, like wiring and “screen of green” netting that help plants grow higher and reach more sun. And of course there’s ...

(Illustration by Tony O. Champagne, NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune archive) QUESTION: When you say deadhead, what are you referring to and how should it be done properly? I have trimmed back mums with ...

You don’t need tie dye and dancing bears to be a deadhead in your own backyard. Deadheading is an important task for any gardener who wants to see multiple blooms in the flower garden. You don’t need ...

Jake Eastburn, Executive Producer for Paula Sands Live, has a green thumb and shares some of his knowledge about how to care for the ubiquitous, richly-colored blooms that symbolizes the fall season-- ...