Deadhead phlox?

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DaleP6 Sarasota, FL(Zone 9b) Apr 28, 2004

I bought a pot of Phlox at HD. It is a short variety and covered with many colored flowers. do I need to deadhead this? Where the blooms (about 3/4" wide) come off thee is a honey comb type "holder" for lack of knowing the right word...sort of like a small penta. Deadhead? Thanks.

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BloomsWithaView Moab, UT(Zone 6b) Apr 28, 2004

If it looks like these it's an annual phlox and will make flowers for the 'season' which is all summer here in Moab if you plant 'em in the shade.

They may make their new flowers faster for the tender care of deadheading, but will shuck the old flowers for new anyway as most annuals do.

Most of the six packs or pots have been encouraged to bloom earlier and may come back quicker with dead heading - lovely term. Blooms here.

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DaleP6 Sarasota, FL(Zone 9b) Apr 29, 2004

Mine are different colors and yours look like they are trailing down some. Mine are still in nursery pot. So tomorrow in the ground they go and then it's preform or you're fired!

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