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| Maybe a silly post, but then again - it took me a few years to actually figure this out - so perhaps a helpful tip for someone.
Sometimes blooms are at that "fine line" point of - to deadhead, or not yet to deadhead. How long we leave our blooms on is completely personal for visual taste, and time we have to deadhead. For me - I don't like sloppy looking blooms. I used to wonder if I was deadheading my blooms too early. Then I came up with this great solution, for me at least, to indicate when it was time to deadhead. I vigorously shake a cane with blooms, or if the cane is too thorny I just tap the side of the bloom or bloom group. If the pedals start falling off, I pop off the head. If they stick, I leave it. |
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| I do the exact same thing! Give it a shake, if they fall, of with their heads! I don't like to cut them off to soon either because even the faded ones look good from the street and make the garden look colorful to passersby. |
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- Posted by flaurabunda 6a, Central IL (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 17:28
| Same here! Usually the wind does it for me, but if they start shattering as I jostle them, it's time to lop them off. I like the way that most of the roses will show you exactly where to deadhead by sprouting new growth if you leave the spent blooms on just a bit longer. Not all of them, but some of them certainly do. |
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| I do the same thing also...lol |
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- Posted by kittymoonbeam (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 21:26
| If there's no good pollen left for the bees, off with its head! |
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