Deadheading all types of geraniums helps maintain their appearance and encourages more blooms in your garden pots and planters.

The bright colors and distinctive scents of geraniums represent summer for me. We always had pots of red geraniums sitting on the backsteps as a cheery welcome home. My job as a child was to ...

How to deadhead geraniums - best time, where to cut GERANIUMS are a popular bedding plant. They will lighten up even the dullest of gardens but, how do you deadhead them?

GERANIUMS are a popular bedding plant. They will lighten up even the dullest of gardens but, how do you deadhead them?

“Deadheading geraniums, which means removing the spent blooms, helps encourage them to re-bloom and make new flowers,” Hernandez-Swofford explains. Aim to deadhead spent geranium blooms regularly.

Picture pelargoniums, our potted geraniums, this way. That cut we make encourages the nearby buds to grow faster, and provides more of the plant's energy to the new growth.