Garden Maintenance: Pruning, Pinching & Deadheading

It's a fact of gardening that once you get your flowers planted, the real work begins. To keep your flowers blooming and looking good all season requires some diligence on the part of the gardener. No sooner can one blossom fade then you have to get in there with your pruners and snip it out.

Here are some of the finer points of the deadheading, pinching and cutting back needed to keep your garden flowers picture perfect.