Deadheading and Side Pruning
By: Charles Bankston
Monroe, Louisiana
www.PerennialAndRoseGardening.net
Do you prefer big, stately blooms or do you prefer the smaller blooms in one large “spray”? What’s a “spray” you might ask? This is simply those plant stems that shoot up and produce multiple blooms (i.e. one stem with multiple blooms on top). For those that enjoy, rather, the stem with the single, large flower at the top can help with such productions by “side pruning” or often referred to as “finger pruning”.
