GROOMING SPENT BLOOM FROM SPRING BLOOMERS (AJUGA,CREEPING PHLOX, IRIS , LAMBS EAR).

Ajuga: Take spent bloom to leaf buds and cut . Do not put these blooms in compost do to the seeds.
Creeping phlox: Cut back green foliage to as tight and compact as you want. You can shear the entire plant to a tidy mound.
To multiply plant take a good portion of rooted plant and twist the roots and put into a well composted soil and water it
And watch it grow.
Iris: Take bloom stalk down to leaf bud and cut back the stalk will go into compost . Check the plant for and yellow or
Diseased leaves remove and DO NOT PUT IN COMPOST.
Lambs ear: Stachys byzantina cut bloom stalk to leaf buds . The mat will grow in and form beautiful ground gray cover. A variety
Helen von Stein or Big Ears is a variety that does not form as many blooms and leaves are much larger.
Liliput Zinnia. To encourage more branching with more bloom pinch back plant to leaf bud cut off first blooms, put those in a vase,
And watch them double in bloom.
Always, always weed whenever in the garden it will make the gardener very happy and the garden too🌞.

[@suelilly5042]

What good video! Everything looks wonderful! Beaaaautiful! I trimmed the lambs ear but not that much...I'll go out this week and do that.

[@heatherlovesdeuteronomy]

Oh my, thank you so much for the information!!

[@gardeningonthewestforkwith8994]

Heather you are welcome 🌝thank you for subscribing and watching !

[@lizhowes349]

Wonderful!

[@gardeningonthewestforkwith8994]

Liz goodness I was just looking at all the ground cover blooms they really are the show stoppers right now maybe I’ll get a short video out . One of my favorite times in the garden.

[@TheEnthusiasticGardener]

Morning Teresa, another lovely video and your garden is looking just gorgeous. So many lovely plants in bloom now. I don’t have any lambs ear but it is beautiful. We have a 4 day weekend for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and everyone will be celebrating so let’s hope it stops raining 💦 happy weekend to you 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@gardeningonthewestforkwith8994]

Finger crossed rain will stop ! I love long weekends. Hope you have a cocktail hour on your gardens? Cmon Mother Nature give up some sunshine😎🌻💃🏻

[@kattrinahowe1868]

I just spent 20$ on creeping phlox today for 2 small sad pots I wish I was close

[@gardeningonthewestforkwith8994]

Katrina shoot me too . I took my neighbor several starts and I divided more for myself on the side of the house. Throw some water on those new plsnts if your temps heat up and it gets dry. As long as roots get a healthy start they will multiply. The plant when young May brown in the heat but don’t get discouraged just know thise roots if established with come back next season.

[@77sun222]

Hello Theresa and Reg Nice to see Mozart again😍Plants have such complicated names sometimes. You can maybe tag it now just in case it slips your mind in the future. Your garden is lush and beautiful. Did not know that you can propogate phlox that way. I suppose that method works with arabis and aubretia too?

[@gardeningonthewestforkwith8994]

It’s worth a try ! Living next to Mary who is 91 and quite the gardening guru has been awesome! My memory is a story in itself🥴🙏🏻🫣

[@77sun222]

@@gardeningonthewestforkwith8994 hi...yes..my 3rd neighbours are in their eighties. You get used to their ways. Still.. they don't like gardening but are very acceptable neighbours. Next neighbours might be the footballing kind😱😱😵

[@suelilly5042]

I am sitting here going...foxglove foxglove...I did a pencil sketch a while back and recognized those.

[@gardeningonthewestforkwith8994]

Shoot it would come to me obviously or the rose 🫣.

[@hojuniverse]

🙏 thanks. I recently bought a home and it had phlox in the front. I had to figure out first what it was and now how take care of it ☺️. It looks dead inside. Not sure if this is how it’s supposed to be or is it dying?

[@gardeningonthewestforkwith8994]

Thank you for watching 🙂hum without seeing photo but in the summer sometimes it browns and you can cut that out or an animal may be peeing on it🫣. Either case cut out the brown msybe water it if it’s been real hot . We’ve had a heat wave and that can stress it.