NOTHING quite matches the relaxing scent of lavender during a warm spring and summer evening. Although it is a quintessential ...

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By far the most common reason for some hydrangeas to not flower is pruning at the wrong time of year. Here's what else to know and how to fix it. $3,500 iPhone possible?

Your landscape and flower gardens are full of summer blooms. Now it’s time to prune those spring-flowering plants.

Learn when to prune your lavender plants. Clematis. ... Balloon Flower. Platycodon, Zones 3 to 9. Before opening into five-pointed blooms, the hollow buds look like tiny balloons.

Plants like daylilies and balloon flowers require a bit different care. ... Prune back heat-stressed lobelia and verbena that get leggy and petunia stems that need to be kept in bounds.

What to prune. HYBRID TEA ROSES: When it comes to pruning hybrid tea roses, the recommendations are designed for the production of high-quality, long-stemmed flowers. To control their tall, leggy ...

Plants like daylilies and balloon flowers require a bit different care for a tidier look. Remove the individual blooms as they fade. Once bloomed out, you can cut the flower stem back at the base.

Prune when in bloom and use the prunings as cut flowers. Prune when the plant finishes blooming so as not to reduce flowering. Dan Gill is a horticulturist with the LSU AgCenter.