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DEADHEADING AND SHAPING PERENNIALS AND ANNUALS

When maintaining a garden, what is the proper way to deadhead?

1. Cut all the new growth off.
2. Use any old scissors or clippers to chop off blooms.
3. Carefully cut behind dead blooms and discard.
4. Never touch plants once you’ve put them in the ground.

C. Using clean, sharp instruments, carefully cut behind the dead blooms and discard.

Marjorie Harris is one of Canada’s best-known garden writers. She has written 15 garden books most of which are still in print. She is the author of Ecological Garden, How to Make a Garden and the encyclopaedia Botanica North America. She is the garden columnist for The Globe & Mail and House & Home magazine. Her articles will appear in Garden Design magazine in the US. Her most recent book is Thrifty: Living the Frugal Life With Style.

Marjorie Harrisworks and blogs on marjorieharris.com

This must-have guide published by Random House shows us how to garden with the planet in mind. Ecological Gardening will help Canadian gardeners to create beautiful and healthy gardens while working in harmony with the environment.

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