Deadheading Hostas - Home Gardening Quick Tips

A quick & easy tutorial on deadheading hostas to tidy up the garden this season and ensure beautiful blooms the following spring.

Hosta flowers provide nectar and pollen for our pollinators that are on the decline. Leave these lovely flowers on the plant to enjoy as they bring life to the garden - especially in shady spots. After the flowers fade, you can cut back the flower stalks so the plant doesn't focus energy on creating seeds, and instead focuses on creating a healthy plant that will keep blooming year after year.

I will never understand folks that "don't like" hosta flowers and cut them back before they bloom or finish blooming! I think they are lovely and so do my bumblebees who climb right in the flower to drink the nectar and collect pollen.

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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:16 Hosta flowers attract pollinators
00:43 Faded flower stalks
01:13 Close-up of deadheading
01:45 Finished product
02:06 No energy used to set seed
02:17 What to do with clipped stems
02:35 Conclusion

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[jhgannon]

Second year of keeping hostas so this tip was helpful. Subscribed. I’m in SW Ontario near Detroit. 😊

[kevanmarshall]

Thank you! These videos are quite helpful for a new gardener!

[andrewmckegney]

Great video! Nice and simple to follow. Thank you 😊

[powerrayne]

Thank you for showing how to deadhead the hostas

[heraclitus]

Great videos. Thanks! Helpful to learn gardening tips.

[simonstringer]

Very helpful video. Thankyou for this. Having only had my plants a year ago since moving into a place of my own, im still relatively new to it so im always nervous about how to go about deadheading plants. Always worry im going to cut the wrong bits off haha thankyou!

[upscale]

So glad I found this before taking action! I thought dead heading meant weed whack the entire plant

[plantsnrockies]

That's nice tips..I'm new with hosta twas good to know.

[phishphan]

That video was very clear and informative, especially given its brevity. We are in Zone 7 area (metro Atlanta) ---- and our hosta blooms have pretty much finished (some still look good, some shabby) ---- is now a good time to prune them down?

[TheSuburbanGardenista]

Do you deadhead your hostas? Why / when / or why not?

[alysonlawson]

Will new flowers grow before the frost? Or is this the end of their blooming cycle?