Garden Design With Annuals

When gardeners plan their garden design with annuals, they have the benefit of changing their preferences from year to year.

Because of the annuals lifecycle of one season, you get the freedom to create a new garden and color scheme every year. And, although you can change your garden design every year it still takes effort and time to achieve your whims.

For this reason, it only makes sense for you to maximize your garden’s ‘blooming’ potential. This is why deadheading is your friend.

The removal of spent flowers from your annuals is ‘deadheading’. And, it can increase the number and density of your annuals blooms.

Deadheading causes your annuals to keep blooming because it interrupts nature’s cycle. Usually, once flowers have bloomed they will continue their cycle to seeding. Now some annuals’ flowers have the ability to fall off by themselves while other annuals will go through the seed process whilst still on the stalk.

If you interrupt the process by removing the spent flower you trick the annual into blooming again. The plant will rejuvenate itself to complete the seeding process – thus giving you more blooms by flowering again.

Sometimes deadheading will not only increase the number of blooms but, it can also increase the density of blooms by producing more flowers.

If you choose not to deadhead your annuals they will just begin to slowly wither out which will decrease the brilliance of your garden.

So just remember when you’re planning out your garden design with annuals, think ahead and make sure your annuals are within easy reach to get that deadheading done.

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