Aug 20, 2026 · 3 min · 2 segments
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Friends, I wanna talk to you about the concept of deadheading your plants.
What I'm finding is that a lot of people, I'll give you some examples, are not deadheading.
You get out of that garden phase, and it doesn't take much to get out of it when life is happening around you.
And a lot of you started with some very beautiful plants, but they kind of over time have gone to pot because you didn't thin them when they got too thick, you didn't trim them properly, and you didn't deadhead them.
All you do is remove the dead flowers, and when you do that with most flowers, they will repeat bloom in appro- approximately six weeks, more or less, depending on the variety.
And if you ignore it, if you neglect and just let the dead flowers stay on, what will happen is the plant can't grow.
It can't put out new growth because the dead flowers are there, and the, the mother plant will actually start to decline.
Sometimes the plant will actually lean a little bit from the weight of the dead flowers.
And you have these beautiful plants, and all you have to do is literally...
You've got to put a little bit of rose fertilizer, or you can use azalea fertilizer for these perennials and these annuals, and you could also use an organic product called bone meal.
And do that every time you deadhead, and you will be so impressed how quickly these flowering butterfly plants will recover and be so much prettier.
If, if you could only get out there today and do a half hour of work just doing a little trimming, that's okay.
And then the next day, go out and do your fertilizing, hand water it in, and you're done.
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Friends, I wanna talk to you about the concept of deadheading your plants.
What I'm finding is that a lot of people, I'll give you some examples, are not deadheading.
You get out of that garden phase, and it doesn't take much to get out of it when life is happening around you.
And a lot of you started with some very beautiful plants, but they kind of over time have gone to pot because you didn't thin them when they got too thick, you didn't trim them properly, and you didn't deadhead them.
All you do is remove the dead flowers, and when you do that with most flowers, they will repeat bloom in appro- approximately six weeks, more or less, depending on the variety.
And if you ignore it, if you neglect and just let the dead flowers stay on, what will happen is the plant can't grow.
It can't put out new growth because the dead flowers are there, and the, the mother plant will actually start to decline.
Sometimes the plant will actually lean a little bit from the weight of the dead flowers.
And you have these beautiful plants, and all you have to do is literally...
You've got to put a little bit of rose fertilizer, or you can use azalea fertilizer for these perennials and these annuals, and you could also use an organic product called bone meal.
And do that every time you deadhead, and you will be so impressed how quickly these flowering butterfly plants will recover and be so much prettier.
If, if you could only get out there today and do a half hour of work just doing a little trimming, that's okay.
And then the next day, go out and do your fertilizing, hand water it in, and you're done.
