Re: deadheading daylilies

Lots of good excuses, but...

Deadheading is a great way to get a new flush of flowers on some plants.
It's also a way to manage the energy of a young plant.  But the best reason
IMO, is that it brings you up close and personal with a plant, helping you
to appreciate the individual.  I don't have time to be bored, but I deadhead
for direct contact with my treasures.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Blee811@aol.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>

> In a message dated 6/20/2005 2:32:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> tlmiller@mac.com writes:
>
> I always  thought that deadheading any plants, daylilies, hibiscus,
> gardenias, etc.  was only for the terminally bored.
>
> Not only that, but if any one of the plants you deadhead has a disease,
and
> you are using clippers, scissors, or even your fingers, you certainly risk
> passing on the disease to the next plant the infected implements cut.
>
> We have gotten so sensitized to this issue in the daffodil world that if
we
> want a flower for indoors or exhibition, we pull or snap it off.
> Bill Lee

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