David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

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 ...

When the calendar reaches August each summer, many flowering plants are near the end of the first act of the glorious show they orchestrate in our landscapes each season. This is the time when many of ...

A common deed in the August garden is what gardeners call “deadheading.” This somewhat morbid term is a form of plant-cutting that involves snipping or pinching off flowers after they’ve finished ...