Deadheading plants helps keep your summer garden flowering for longer, but not all flowers should be deadheaded. Find out how and when to deadhead, and which flowers are better not deadheaded, in this summer garden tips and tour.
00:00 Welcome
00:08 The Middlesized Garden – weather and climate
01:11 What is deadheading?
01:22 Why deadheading creates more flowers in your garden
01:40 Which flowers should you NOT deadhead?
03:39 How to deadhead roses
05:20 A tip for dealing with black spot on rose leaves
05:41 Sarah Raven plants, books, courses, accessories: https://www.sarahraven.com/
05:57 Salvia nursery Dyson’s Salvias https://www.dysonsalvias.com/ are based at Great Comp Garden: https://www.greatcompgarden.co.uk/
06:09 Plants to deadhead include cosmos, dahlias, penstemons, delphiniums, bedding plants including pelargoniums and other plants which flower again in the same year.
06:12 How to deadhead plants
06:25 How often should you deadhead? (As often as you can manage, if there are dead flowers!)
06:31 How to make a flower border look amazing: https://youtu.be/qxVxUDkiwWs
06:59 These are the snipper I bought on Frances’ recommendation. Note that links to Amazon are affiliate and help support this channel (see below): https://amzn.to/3ytUZ9n
07:11 Should you pinch out young cosmos plants?
08:40 Growing alchemilla mollis in the cracks between pavers
09:24 Deadheading or ‘cutting back’?
09:42 Should you deadhead lavender?
09:53 The best way to prune English lavender (blog post): https://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/absolutely-best-way-prune-english-lavender-beautifully/
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33 Comments
Very useful thankyou
The garden is so beautiful. I really enjoyed your video. Thank you for sharing.
first time watching. I'm from Maine USA always find it interesting to hear advice from other gardners.
Thank You
I didn't know you had to pinch out cosmos – the ones at my front door are over 4ft tall on spindly, arched stems with big purple flowers. Not quite the look I was seeking, but they do make quite an impression!
What is the plant growing on the wall beside you that has some pink leaves along with the green……..very pretty! I noticed you had no poppies but was wondering if you should dead head those.
Lordy, I wish I had a garden. You have a wonderful space there ✨
Not hot in UK 20 to 25 degrees but it's 40 degrees now.!!!!
Love your channel! Elise Higgins in America
What an interesting & informative video. THANKS!
How do you deadhead penstemon?
As a Northern California gardener for the past 22 years, stumbling on your channel was one of the best things that ever happened to my gardening world. Your advice is pure gold. You don't just give a couple tips, you give a cornucopia of knowledge to your viewers! I shall gladly give a "Thanks" donation, and subscribing was a definite! Thank you!
Thanks!
Do you deadhead foxgloves?
Do they flower again in the same year?
Alexandra, your garden is a delight and what beautiful roses you have. What is the rose at 0:40? It’s so lovely. Thanks for the informative content. Hope you are staying cool.
Alexandra – that Acanthus is stellar. Another great video.
I’m one of those new – ‘covid19 gardener’ 😀 – I absolutely love gardening my small 8m square townhouse garden.
I would add pruning the crazy climbers to your summer list. I set aside a day every week to keep control, pest and fungal check my grape vine, x3 passifloras, x3 jasmines, x4 clematis, x5 honeysuckles and various climbing roses as well as an assortment of scrambling berries!
The thugs are Passifloras and Montanas.
Thank you for giving the USDA equivalents for the UK. It’s always been a question while I’m watching UK based garden shows. I’m gardening in zone 9 as well, but in the Houston, TX metro area so my summer temps are well above your average, although you seem to be getting a taste of my usual temps this year. Summer can be a bit rough on the full sun borders this time of year, although I have a plan for a gray-watering system that should help in the future. I tend to use a lot of native plants even in my cottage garden border, since they’re better suited to the weather. I love that your Byzantine glads are still blooming. I get them for a few weeks in spring and then they’re gone until next year.
Terrible mildew in New Jersey this year. I think the worst ever.
I have trimmed the coleus back and am rooting some in water in my kitchen, rooted basil too. We cut roses back to the next stem with leaves of five. Am collecting the seed heads of cilantro too. Thanks.
July in Florida means water, water, water the plants. We could use a bit more rain sent our way, please.
Looks like your garden would be a haven for hedgehogs, ever thought about creating a hedgehog highway in your garden border to allow them access.
Thank you in particular for explaining the reasons to pinch out – or not pinch out – cosmos. I think the same principle applies to the chelsea chop, which I find works well in a border if done to only a proportion of each type of plant, so that you have some larger earlier flowers on taller stems, followed by smaller, later flowers on shorter, bushier plants. You are so right that the methods we use depend on the outcome we are working towards, not on what’s right or wrong 😊
I enjoyed this. I like it that she is open minded and civil to people with different opinions. We need people like her in the US!
In the Pacific Northwest we've had hardly any sun until mid-July, and yet flowering plants are much happier and more abundant than usual. Temps have been in the upper 60s!
May I ask, what is the climbing vine to your left in the video? It's on the right side of the monitor picture and it's green and pink! It's really lovely. Asking from Colorado, USA, where on May 16th we had 18" of snow, Zone 5 USDA. Thank you for your lovely videos!
What a marvellous youtube discovery, a beautiful presentation, well done
Wonderful tips as usual 🙂. I thoroughly enjoy a good garden experiment such as what you did when pruning the roses as well as your very simple tip on deadheading them by visual cues without knowing the variety. Thanks!
What an informative video 🙂 We are plagued by couch grass in our beds. They've got the better of us this year, I'm afraid.
I purchased a pair of these snips having watched the video, they are brilliant thank you, my sister tried them and immediately ordered her own!
I had also learned of Sarah Raven growing salvias by roses to help deter the spread of blackspot so I gave it a go this year and planted the short leaved varieties Sarah recommends and so far its been a success. Crossing my fingers all will be well right through the growing season and if so will plant more salvia.
Thanks for the tip. I’m compulsive about dead heading and you taught me new things.
So good! Thank you!