Purple Iris
Today I started to deadhead the pink rhodo from hell. This rhodo is huge and the worst of the lot to deadhead. A job that will take a month of Sundays. Oh to have a pool boy that gardened.
in a garden…
a canadian gardeners photoblog (photography by sandy saunders)
I have been enjoying your blog and beautiful photos! May I ask how to deadhead a rhododendron? Do you just pull the spent blossom off or do you pinch off the tiny stem that the blossom is on? I’m a gardening newbie and never deadheaded my 7-year-old rhodie until this year. I wasn’t sure how to do it so I just pulled off the blossoms. I’d like to make sure I get it right next year. Thanks!
My iris are gone now. I may have a few that rebloom in the fall. This is a beauty!
Mmmmm…yummy!
I have never dead headed a rhododenron. Maybe that’s why they bloom well one year and not the next? We have too many to receive such a treatment anyway so we just leave them to fall away naturally.
Great photos. They look so pretty!!
I was wondering if this purple Iris has several flowers on its stem blooming from top to bottom – it reminds me of a gladiolas.
Mine are beautiful and I enjoy them every year. I just have been looking to see what kind they are. They look like the purple Iris but I see no other flowers on the same stem. Could you help me. Thank you.