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| Photo: Bec Wolfe-Thomas |
"Tis the season that posts about deadheading start to show up. The myth is that you need to deadhead spent blooms to get the plant to re-bloom. The theory people apply is that the plant will put all its energy into seed development and won’t bloom anymore because it no longer needs to for reproduction. This is false, plants are either genetically predisposed to re-bloom or they are not. To what degree they re-bloom also relates back to their genetics. It is a trait that plants are bred for.
Two plants I hear people regularly say need deadheading to get blooms are roses and petunias".
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| Photo: Bec Wolfe-Thomas |
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| Photo: Bec Wolfe-Thomas |
"I have been debunking this myth for years and this year I decided to give you visuals to help with the debunking. I have 3 photos, a petunia with new buds, blooms, and seed head all on the same stem, a rose with a nearly spent bloom, a new bloom and a rose-hip, and a fuchsia with a bloom, bud and seed pods in various stages of development. Your re-blooming plants like petunia will keep on blooming, even when you do not remove the old blooms".
