Re: deadheading

Kemberly

I have been watching my columbines almost daily so as to catch those
seed pods.  I am saving some for a friend that owns one of the local
nurseries......she gives me something nice in exchange for things I give
her.  last fall she gave me 2 - 1  gallon pots of  football mums,
because they had not sold and she was gonna trash them,  I had given her
oddles of  hollyhock seed.  Just the other day she gave me a 1 gallon
pot with a black knight buddleia (butterfly bush) ,  she asked for
cuttings from my lavendar bush, and I'm saving the columbine seed for
her.

I've got one that is really tall and the flowers are small and a
reddish-orange color. another is short with small pink blooms, another
is short with deep lavendar blooms,  I got a beautiful tall yellow that
I have not been able to catch any of the seed pods   they seem to be
gone even when I check them daily.  "don't understand that"   1 tall
white that really put on a show this spring (first year plant) as a
matter of fact all of mine are first year plants.   I planted all in the
fall of '98 .  I bought 2 new ones in the early spring of this year, but
they haven't done anything yet.  I can hope for a fall showing.

someone gave  advice on this list when the subject came up  and she said
that she just laid the seed pod where she wants them to grow and she had
plants.    so  I have started doing that

now     in order to have fall blooms   assuming I have fall blooms,  do
I have to cut the plants back,  or let the plant die back for the
summer,  or simply deadhead all seed pods?
I need some guidance here

thanks       Donna in NE Mississippi    zone 7

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