Don’t want to snip away the dead blooms in your garden? Here are some low-maintenance Flowers that Don’t Need Deadheading you must grow!

Gardeners are most worried about the flowers that bloom repeatedly throughout the blooming season, and they have to pay the price for it–vigilant deadheading. Though deadheading may not be that difficult, it is surely time-taking. If you want to save yourself from the hassle, grow these Flowers that Don’t Need Deadheading!

Flowers that Don’t Need Deadheading

The flowering plants we have listed here are the ones that only bloom once in the season, and there is no deadheading required. 

1. Stonecrop

Botanical Name: Sedum

This flowering plant looks attractive in its own way. Many gardeners allow the heads to be on top of the plant throughout the winters and then prune them in early spring.

2. Madagascar Periwinkle

Botanical Name: Catharanthus roseus

This pretty plant usually cleans up itself by getting rid of the flower heads on its own, so you don’t have to put in the time to do that. This annual plant continues to bloom throughout the summer

3. Leopard Plant

Botanical Name: Ligularia spp.

The spotted leaves of this plant make it a head turner! With striking flowers known to multiply pretty fast, you don’t have to deadhead them at all!

4. Astilbe

Botanical Name: Astilbe

The flower heads with their beautiful foliage and tall flower stalks look gorgeous in any garden. Its older flower stems eventually dry out into lovely plums that add charm to any garden, and there is no need for you to get rid of the deadheads.

5. Baptisia Australis

Botanical Name: Baptisia australis

Baptisia bears beautiful flowers in violet-blue colors. The plant has a longer blooming period and does not require you to remove any deadheads.

6. New Guinea Impatiens

Botanical Name: Impatiens hawkeri

The beautiful annual is one of the best flowering plants that you can grow in your garden. Because it has a self-cleaning tendency, you don’t need to get rid of the older flowers.

7. Nemesia

Botanical Name: Nemesia

Nemesia is self-cleaning and does not require any extra effort of deadheading the grown flowers. You just have to prune the plant to keep it in shape and make it bushy.

8. Begonias

Botanical Name: Begonia

Nearly all kinds of Begonias are an excellent choice for flowers that do not need your attention to remove their deadheads because they tend to keep themselves clean and re-flower by getting rid of their deadheads.

9. Impatiens

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Botanical Name: Impatiens walleriana

Similar to its bigger cousin, the regular and smaller flower varieties are also known to be able to clean themselves and do not need you to remove their old flowers.

10. Angelonia

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Botanical Name: Angelonia

Another self-cleaning plant, it dries up with time and sheds off by itself. It could be a great addition to your flower collection as it comes in a variety of colors.

11. Million Bells

Botanical Name: Calibrachoa

The stunning flowering plant resembles mini petunias and is a hummingbird and butterflies magnet. It does not need deadheading and is capable of removing them on its own.

12. Russian Sage

Botanical Name: Perovskia atriplicifolia

With soft gray leaves and striking contrasting flowers in shades of purple or pastel, it does not need any deadheading. Just prune it regularly to keep it in shape.

13. Waterhyssop

Botanical Name: Bacopa monnieri

This soft perennial is usually grown like an annual plant and is one of the self-cleaning plants that tend to remove their deadheads on their own.

14. Twinspur

Botanical Name: Diascia

These pretty blooms in shades of white, pink, orange, and coral do not require you to remove their deadhead. Prune the plant, however, to keep it bushy and lush.

15. Spanish Needles

Botanical Name: Bidens

Bidens, if grown as perennial, tend to grow up into a huge herbaceous flowering plant that does not need deadheading.

16. Lobelia

Botanical Name: Lobelia erinus

This flowering plant does not need much maintenance and attention once it is established. It is a complete delight in your garden with pretty blooms from mid-summer to the time for the first frost.

17. Wishbone Flower

Botanical Name: Torenia fournieri

This is an annual flowering plant belonging to the Linderniaceae family and bears flowers in white, pink, or blue shades with yellow markings. It does not need you to remove their deadheads after the blooming period.

18. Bush Violet

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Botanical Name: Browallia speciosa

Another self-cleaning flowering plant, this woody-based, shrubby perennial, belongs to the nightshade family native to tropical parts of South America.

19. Purslane

Botanical Name: Portulaca oleracea

This self-cleaning flowering plant is also widely consumed and is also grown as an ornamental plant. It can make your garden look pretty with no deadheading requirements.

20. Joe Pye Weed

Botanical Name: Eupatorium maculatum

Considered a weed, it can make your garden burst with colors with its attractive flowers that come in early fall, that do not need deadheading.

21. Lantana

Botanical Name: Lantana camara

Lantana grows happily without demanding too much attention. The best part is, the flowers come in clusters in different hues, and you don’t have to deadhead them at all!