Just gather up the ponytail just like this,

Just gather up the ponytail just like this, take your clippers. Hi, gardening friends. This is Michelle at The Gardener's Center So today we're gonna talk just a little bit about haircuts. I like haircuts, you like haircuts. But who else likes haircuts? Your plants like haircuts. And I know it's hard to do sometimes because they are living, but you know, your hair is living too. Or is it dead when it comes out? I'm not sure. But anyway, haircuts do us all good. And this lovely catmint, this lovely nepeta, has gotten a little bit long and straggly. So the best thing to do for this plant and many others is to just gather up the ponytail just like this, take your clippers and give it a good haircut all the way around. And this plant doesn't mind if you give it a really really short haircut, cause what's gonna happen? I could even gone shorter. This we're gonna throw away our compost. Anyway, this is gonna start growing again. But the best thing about it is it's gonna make flowers. To keep your salvia and other plants blooming, you wanna make sure to cut off any dead or spent blooms. You know what? The plant thinking it's work for the season is done. So see this one right here? This is all done. It's turned brown. It's still a lovely shade of kind of maroon, but it's finished. So I'm gonna cut right back to the bottom. Of this stem right there. I don't wanna cut off the new flowers. Off it goes. And it's actually kind of a comforting thing to do to give your. Your plant a lovely haircut. It looks better and it feels better too. You can also do this for your flowering shrubs. But if you do that, you've got to do it before July 1st, cause you don't want it set bud for next year anyway. Give your plants a haircut. No matter if you're cutting blooms or if you're cutting just some greenery that needs to be shaped up. It's good for your plant. It trigger new growth and you'll have a happy garden. See you next time.