Does anyone know if you are suppoosed to dead head gerber daisies?
Question:I have many other plants, including petunias and geraniums, I usually pick off the dead flowers on those plants, but I am unsure what to do with the gerbers. Thanks to anyone that can enlighten me.
Answers:
This is funny.. I just came inside from dead-heading my flowers. Including Gerber daisies. Just a tip: rather than pick off the dead flowers, actually pinch off the flower and the stem. It will stimulate spreading and flowering.
Gerber daisies are prolific, and will come back, year after year. Many flowers that are considered "annuals" will come back if, in the fall, you just shake the plant. Yep, just shake it. This will scatter the seeds. Just don't get too anxious in the spring to clean up your flower beds, until you can identify the flowers that are coming up.
Yes, otherwise they go to seed. When they are dead-headed, they continue to expend their energy in producing blooms.
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....Deadhead daisies?....
just cutting off the flowers will leave an ugly plant with stems sticking out..you don't want that! Cut back the flowering stems all the way into foliage. They should rebloom
Treat a gerber the same way that you would treat a petunia. It's cool. They are georgeous, aren't they?
Im not to sure they are to be deadheaded? I had some too, and did deadhead and never got any more regrowth?
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