Hur gör jag deadhead blommor

Find out how to deadhead flowers in your beds, borders, containers and hanging baskets to extend the flowering season in your garden.

HOW TO DEADHEAD FOR BEGINNERS

Deadheading is the term given to the removal of faded or dead flowers from plants. It might seem like a big job that only professional gardeners know how to do, but deadheading is incredibly easy — even for beginners! If you have a big garden with lots of flowers it can take a bit of time but spending five or ten minutes a day deadheading your plants is all it takes to make good progress.

Plus, what else can be more therapeutic than spending time outdoors tending to your plants? There are many benefits to deadheading flowers, both for the look and functionality of your garden. Keep reading our guide to find out how you can go about deadheading successfully, and what flowers you should have a go at deadheading this summer to keep the colour coming in your garden as we transition into autumn.

Fler blommor med nedklippning

Deadheading your plants can encourage a second bloom of flowers, giving you a more colourful garden for longer — sometimes even until the first frosts! As you can see there are lots of benefits to deadheading. Now all you need to do is a grab a sharp pair of secateurs and get ready to snip! Using your secateurs, simply snip away the dying flowers just above the next bud or leaf on the stem.

Deadheading is not the same as pruning — you want to deadhead flowers just below the faded bloom, or before the first set of leaves.

Deadheading - klipp bort vissna blommor

Deadhead summer bedding plants daily, and perennials once a week or every other week. Clean your secateurs every time after deadheading — dirty secateurs can lead to diseased plants. Deadhead just below the faded bloom — not the same as pruning, you want to cut before the first set of leaves. TOP TIP: Some flowers such as Rudbeckias and heleniums can provide seeds which are eaten by birds, so you might want to leave some of these decayed flowers to support wildlife through the colder months.

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Hebe — deadhead hebes at the base of the flower. This encourages more blooms and makes shrub look pretty. Peonies — to channel energy back to the roots and leaves, improve flowering year after year, and reduces the chances of infection, prune your peonies whenever their blooms fade. Snip the faded flowers back to the main stem.

Hemleverans blommor Interflora har blommor för alla tillfällen.

Sommarblommor som blommar hela sommaren Deadheading – metoden som får dina blommor att blomma på nytt Tycker du att blommorna i trädgården vissnar alldeles för snabbt?

Nejlika blomma Deadheading är ett så enkelt sätt att behålla din blommor blomning!

Towards the end of the autumn, you might want to stop deadheading roses so you can produce rosehips, which not only look attractive, but provide food for wildlife. Dahlias — deadhead dahlias to divert their energy back to their corms so they keep growing year after year. Remove these pointed ones by deadheading the whole flowering stem. Agapanthus — the already short flowering season of the agapanthus is made even shorter if you don't deadhead.

Cut the faded blooms right back to the base. Bulbs - deadhead bulbs with large flowers like daffodils by cutting the flower stalk just behind the bulbous seed capsule at the top of the stem.