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A friend asked me a few days ago when she should stop deadheading her plants. “When they finish flowering”, came the reply; in truth, a bit of a glib response to a sensible question. Because, giving the matter a little thought, there are a few things to be borne in mind, other than satisfying our own sheer floral gluttony. You’re probably going to want some seed from some of them, so allowing at least few blooms to go over while this still has time to develop is sensible. And then, since making flowers is a tiring occupation for a plant, you’re probably not going to want to exhaust a perennial to the extent that it will need to recuperate for the whole of next year; though you can ride an annual – like a cosmos – as hard as you like seeing as it’s going to cark it at the end of the season anyway. And then there are the roses; I’m going to want hips and so, much as I feel a need for flowers as late into autumn as possible, I’ll have to stay the snippers at some point soon. But till it feels like that time’s arrived, and for everything else from which it looks like I can squeeze one more bloom, when it comes to deadheading it’s a case of can’t stop, won’t stop.
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