Deadhead flowers to encourage more blooms

Barbara Raskauskas
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Wilmington Gardening Examiner

You plant perennial flowers and annual flowers in your garden for their beauty. Once the blossoms live their short life, the plant switches its energy to seed production unless that blossom, which is now the dead head of the stem, is removed. However you see it, dead head, deadhead, deadheading, the action represents removing the expired flower from the stem of the plant.

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