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Deadheading plants is important to keep your blooms looking healthy. It’s an easy task that should be done to ensure your geraniums continue to look good throughout the season. Geraniums are easy to care for but, when and where should you cut them to ensure they continue to bloom and stay healthy?

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Geraniums come in a variety of colours, shapes and sizes so there will be a flower to suit any garden.

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Nothing looks worse than dull faded flowers, failing to deadhead your geraniums can make your garden look tatty.

What is deadheading?

Deadheading is a gardening term to describe the removal of old flowers from plants.

This removal of faded flowers is done to encourage further flower growth and to enable a second bloom.

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Deadheading also maintains good plant health and can prevent the plant from becoming diseased.

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How to deadhead geraniums: Deadheading plants is important to keep your blooms looking healthy (Image: GETTY)

How to deadhead geraniums: Geraniums come in a variety of colours, shapes and sizes (Image: GETTY)

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Most annuals and many perennial flowers will continue to bloom throughout the season if they are deadheaded.

Where and when should you cut away faded geraniums? Geraniums are easy to care for making them perfect for low maintenance gardens.

They do not need to be pruned but they should be deadheaded regularly.

Wilted flowers will needlessly drain the plant of its energy and this will prevent the plant from growing further flowers.

How to deadhead geraniums: Deadheading is a gardening term to describe the removal of old flowers (Image: GETTY)

You have a couple of options when it comes to deadheading geraniums, one of the simplest is to “pinch out geraniums”, this just means that you pinch off faded blooms, or you can cut away the old flowers to remove them.

It is important when deadheading geraniums to not simply pull off the top flowers but, to actually snap the stem just below the joint at the same point where new growth starts.

Deadheading should be done throughout your plant’s blooming season.

When you notice any of the blooms starting to fade remove them when they start to appear.

This should usually be done every few weeks, it only takes a few minutes to do and is essential to ensure new growth so this simple task should not be neglected.

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If you use scissors or secateurs to deadhead your geraniums make sure you sanitise them properly, this might sound like a faff but failing to do so will increase the risk of disease.

If the leaves on your geraniums start to turn yellow don’t be concerned, this is very common.

You should cut off these leaves as they appear to ensure your plant continues to thrive.

But, make sure you aren’t overwatering your geraniums, yellow leaves may not be a sign of age, sometimes these leaves turn yellow due to overwatering.

If this occurs wait until the soil dries up before you start to water them again.

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