Do you dead-head once bloomers?
noseometer...(7A, SZ10, Albuquerque)
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Melissa Northern Italy zone 8
2 years agonoseometer...(7A, SZ10, Albuquerque) thanked Melissa Northern Italy zone 8Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
2 years agonoseometer...(7A, SZ10, Albuquerque) thanked Sheila z8a Rogue Valley ORRelated Discussions
Did you ever get a once-bloomer to repeat?
Comments (12)Although I have not seen it on my bushes, it evidently does happen under some circumstances. Last month when I was doing a reaccreditation audit at the closest judging school one of the other judges reported that some of the once-bloomers do, on occasion, throw out some flowers later on in the season. She had seen it. I also saw evidence of it at the fall Philadelphia ARS convention in 2002 where I was judging OGRs, shrubs, and some others. There in September sat an entry of the Austin rose Chianti on the table. It is supposed to be a once-bloomer, but there it was. It could be that if the rose was in a summer heat dormancy condition that when the cooler weather came, a flowering cycle was triggered as it came out of dormancy like it would in the spring. I don't know how it happens, but evidently it does....See MoreWhat is your most reliable bloomer you don't dead head?
Comments (17)Thanks everyone! I have a Monsieur Tillier (Tea) I will likely move to this area since he has become too big for his current location. Others I have considered are Sally Holmes and Perle D'or. Mutabilis is a possibility too. I currently have all 3 of these growing in 15 gal. cloth pots waiting for me to decide the best place to put them. I move them around to see how they do in a spot before I finally decide to plant them in their new home. Sometimes I suffer from "Paralysis of Analysis" because I dread having to dig them up and move them (like M. Tillier) once they have settled into a home and established a good root system. I fret I will kill them. I have Grandmother's Hat and her sport Larry Daniels ready to plant in their new locations I've chosen for them. Also, Le Vesuve, Mrs. B.R. Cant, Madame Antoine Mari and Madame Lambard (aka. Lombard) are ready to go into the ground this fall....See MoreHow do you dead head a geranium?
Comments (2)If you don't remove the whole stalk, the faded flowers will start to go to seed. When you remove the stalk it encourages the plant to keep blooming, although there are some varieties that you don't need to remove them for. Some ivy geraniums will drop the flower stalks on their own. I don't remove mine until the last flower falls from the stalk. There's really no need to remove the individual flowers before the stalk has finished blooming. Sometimes I'll let a stalk go to seed then pick it and let it dry out but most of mine are grown from cuttings. Good luck....See MoreCutting Down/Dead Heading Spring Bloomers?
Comments (2)Bleeding hearts are getting a little tired looking about now - you can cut it back now - and I'd do it as far down as the stem stubs can be hidden by the hostas. I like to leave a few inches on my bleeding hearts so I know where they are and don't accidentally dig over them before they emerge in the spring. I would not cut peonies back yet; spent blooms are okay to cut so a lot of energy isn't expended in seed production. Next year's buds will not be affected by cutting just the spent blooms. But leave the foliage until around the time of the first frost at least....See Morenoseometer...(7A, SZ10, Albuquerque)
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