As you are all aware I am a total novice gardener and learning everything as I go along.
I bought and planted some winter flowers for a border and them some more for containers as I loved them so much.
Winter container flowers and Winter flowers primroses and primula
These poor little flowers really do have a tough time, they experience snow, frost, heavy rain, hail and the occasional warm and sunny day. The flowers at times look sodden and really rather sad making me wonder how they survive at all.
I noticed that some of the primroses and primulas flowers were starting to die off and not recovering, I was worried they were about to go over only lasted a couple of weeks.
Then I looked a little closer, I noticed lots of new buds appearing under all the withering flowers.
Cutting the dead and dying flowers back allows the plant to concentrate on the new buds coming through, it also lets more light get to the new buds.
We get a much longer flowering period.
Another lesson learnt to look carefully and be brave with deadheading the old flowers.
I bought and planted some winter flowers for a border and them some more for containers as I loved them so much.
Winter container flowers and Winter flowers primroses and primula
These poor little flowers really do have a tough time, they experience snow, frost, heavy rain, hail and the occasional warm and sunny day. The flowers at times look sodden and really rather sad making me wonder how they survive at all.
I noticed that some of the primroses and primulas flowers were starting to die off and not recovering, I was worried they were about to go over only lasted a couple of weeks.
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| Looking rather sad |
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| New buds peaking through |
We get a much longer flowering period.
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| Can not loose these snips I got for Christmas |
Another lesson learnt to look carefully and be brave with deadheading the old flowers.
Deadheading makes such a difference when encouraging more blooms to come through :) I still need to get out into my gardens and plant some more flowers in the first place! Yours look lovely #blogstravaganza
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