Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost
By removing spent flowers, you are allowing your plant to put energy back into the plant instead of energy into growing seeds - an exhausting job for a plant.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost
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