Deadheading your flowers is an easy garden task, but is it completely necessary? The answer is sometimes! Deadheading, or removing spent blooms and seed pods, encourages some annuals to bloom over and ...

Tickseed Tickseed (Coreopsis spp.) is a low-maintenance perennial that will thrive in your poor and rocky soil. To enjoy its gorgeous blooms for a long time, remove the dead flowers as you spot them ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Native to Missouri, the purple coneflower is both pretty and easy. Q • The flowers of some of my perennials fade out halfway ...