Are your flowering bulbs and plants looking pretty dismal right now? Master Gardener Ed Buyarski suggests taking a set of clippers to the top of bulbs and flowering perennials that have wilted and turned brown.
“But by taking action now, we can make them more beautiful later,” Buyarski said.
Whether it’s annuals and fuschias or shrubs like lilacs and rhododendrons, trimming fading flowers will allow leaves to devote more food and energy to the plant to flower later this season. For daffodils and other bulbs, the leaves will be able to devote more energy to the bulb to survive the winter and flower again next year.
By trimming and thinning back lilacs and rhododendrons, we can also mitigate or prevent any fungus from developing.
Listen to the June 16 segment of Gardentalk:
