Why cut back perennial flowers?
Cutting back flowering hardy perennials will help to improve and prolong flowering and the shape of a plant. Flowering perennials will make more flowers, better quality blooms or bushier plants after being trimmed to shape, this also promotes more and larger flowers. Other ways to promote better flowering: Most flowers bloom and set seed which is a natural climax to the annual growth cycle. By deadheading flowers as they fade not only makes the plant look tidy, but also interrupts the plants sequence and stimulates new flowers to appear. Deadhead fading flowers of herbaceous perennials regularly as this will stimulate new flowers and prevent plants from self-seeding. Most hardy perennials should have their dead flower stalks cut back to the nearest bud at the base of the flowering stem as soon as the flowers begin to fade. By using this technique it also prevents unwanted self-seeding. You can either use your thumb and forefinger, garden cutters or secateurs Some hardy perennials conce
