I know how to do roses and geraniums but how do you do verbena? Pinch back to the stem or all the way back to the plant?

Blanket flower - stem and all or just the flower?

Hydrangeas - just the flower?

I read that you pull the stem of Alstromeria completely out of the plant. Does it come up easily or does the whole plant try to come up with it?

Sorry to sound so dumb but I've never grown these plants before and I really like them and don't want to ruin them.

When you deadhead, take the whole stem down to the next growing leaves. Not sure about the alstromeria. Give it a pull, if it comes up, good. If not, cut it.

Plants that produce a cluster of flowers on a single stalk like Alstromeria are deadheaded by pulling or cutting the stalk. If the plant has multiple flower branches on a stalk, remove the flower branch at its base where it joins the main stalk. If plant sets flowers on an individual branch, trim back to first set of leaves. If plant produces lots of flowers all over, wait until most of the flowers have faded and then trim off everything to encourage new blooms. If flowers are grown on stalks from bulbs, remove the stalk and leave the leaves to continue to manufacture food for bulb for next year's bloom. For roses, removed faded flower and its branch to just above the first set of five leaves.

Not all flowers rebloom after deadheading. Not all flowers require deadheading. Thus, it's important to know your flowers.

When I dead-head my verbena, I just take a scissors and shear it off below all the spent flowers. They don't look so hot of a day or two, but they recover pretty fast.

I've never deadheaded my alstromeria and they've done fine. My mother-in-law however had hers completely cut down by deer and they came back better than ever! So I guess it does work.

I just came across an entire article on "Deadheading" that I had saved years ago from Garden Gate magazine that I had printed off of my computer. Maybe they still have this information on their website.

I pull my alstromeria straight up and it does great...I read someplace to do that but, I can't remember where?