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A pair of garden clippers or even kitchen shears should do the trick for thicker-stemmed plants and flowering shrubs like hydrangeas and roses. Cut the stem at an angle. Just be sure to clean your ...
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When deadheading mums, trim off the spent flower and its stem down to the next leaf or node. Snipping off only the spent flower at the base of the bloom can leave an ugly, pointy stem sticking up.
Deadheading is a widespread form of pruning, [1] since fading flowers are not as appealing and direct a lot of energy into seed development if pollinated. [2] The goal of deadheading is thus to preserve the attractiveness of the plants in beds, borders, containers and hanging baskets, as well as to encourage
Salvia farinacea, the mealycup sage, [1] or mealy sage, [2] is a herbaceous perennial native to Nuevo León, Mexico and parts of the United States including Texas and Oklahoma. [3] Violet-blue spikes rest on a compact plant of typically narrow salvia-like leaves; however, the shiny leaves are what set this species apart from most other Salvia ...
'Black and Blue' cultivar. Salvia guaranitica is a popular ornamental plant in mild areas. It grows in either full or three quarter sunlight, in well-drained soil. Numerous cultivars have been selected, including 'Argentine Skies' (pale blue flowers), 'Black and Blue' (very dark violet blue calyx), 'Blue Ensign' (large blue flowers), and 'Purple Splendor' (Light purple flowers).
Plants in cultivation are almost all hybrids, including Salvia 'Blue Spire', which is very likely Salvia × floriferior, a naturally occurring hybrid between the entire-leaved Salvia yangii and Salvia abrotanoides. The leaves of this breed have long narrow teeth (i.e. are laciniate), unlike S. yangii which has entire leaves with shallow teeth ...
Blue sage is a common name for several plants: Eranthemum nervosum; Salvia azurea, native to central and eastern North America; Salvia clevelandii, native to western North America; Salvia nemorosa, native to central Europe and western Asia; Salvia pachyphylla, native to California, Nevada, and Arizona