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When you dead-head do you just cut the head off or do you go down to the last leaf or new bud?  Thank you If there are a group of buds together then just remove the flower and its stalk. If there is only one flower, then cut it down to the nearest

I have a ten year old Monkey Puzzle Tree, it is ok but its lower branches are laying on the ground and stop us getting to that part of the flower bed. Can I just cut them off? and when should I do it etc

I have a rare white-flowering variegated buddleia. It's sterile, so no new plants every year, but it's still vigorous and healthy. I've tried taking cuttings which died fairly quickly. Does anyone have any good tips that they could share? I'd really

I am quite a novice gardener but I really enjoy learning so any help will be really helpful. Problems I have encountered this growing season are my brocoli has been growing ok but can't stop it flowering,should I cut each flowering head off or any

lot of the old dead leaves to tidy it up a bit.  Thanks all ! Not sure but it could be a yucca. I would cut the old flower spikes off . Sorry cant be more helpful, but I am sure someone here will know. Thanks - yes I think you're right about cutting

multi-stemmed plant that flowers slightly later that if you hadn't cut it back. Bit like pinching out on bedding plants gives you side shoots But doesn't work on all plants and and aaquilegia isn't that sort of plant   I chelsea chop sedums, but I only

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Hi everyone, This is my first ever attempt at growing strawberries and I have a few white flowers that have opened over the past couple of days.......my neighbour has told me to cut the flowers off just under the base of the flower with scissors

, It's well worth cutting back lavender regularly to keep the plants compact. Always remove old flower stems when they are past their best, by cutting them right back to their bases. As for the foliage, don't cut into the old, hard woody parts, just cut

Tie in shoots of clematis and climbers to trellis and supportsPlant out chrysanthemums for autumn flowersPrune overgrown Clematis montana after flowering, cutting lanky growth back hard to promote new shoots from the baseLift and divide congested