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Spend a few minutes deadheading each week when the gardenias are actively in bloom. After the main flush of flowering is over, remove any remaining spent blooms and prune back the tips. Tip pruning encourages branching so the gardenia can produce more flower buds the following season.
Deadheading, removing spent blooms, should be done throughout the growing season. But by midseason, many of your plants probably need a good cleanup, beginning with a thorough deadheading. Most flowering plants, annuals, perennials and some flowering shrubs, will benefit from removing the dead blooms. Some continue to produce new blooms whether you deadhead or not, but many will not continue to flower unless you deadhead. A flowering plantâs sole purpose is to reproduce.