Dead Heading

How do you do it? Can you just snip off the head? And do you deadhead Carnations?

 

I just snap the heads off, provided that doesn't make the plant look untidy.

Roses generally benefit from having the flower stem pruned back to a suitable bud ... bot for plants with lots of flowers, like geraniums or fuchsias, there just aren't enough hours int he day! to do anything other than just snap the dead, and dying, flowers off.

The aim is to stop the plant expending energy setting seed, and to channel that energy into either more flowers or getting bigger and stronger ready for next year

 

I just snip them off with precision secateurs down to the next leaf or bud. But things like geraniums or verbena with loads on one I just take the whole thing off as there's always plenty more waiting to flower.


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I seem to be forever deadheading at the moment, but I enjoy it so not all bad!