Are these flowers done flowering yet?
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The Garden Frog with C Renee on Aug 06, 2014Gaura is the white flower that keeps falling over on you. It blooms from summer to fall and does not play well with others but loves to be in large clumps. You can dead head or cut off the dead flowers for it to push new flowers faster than just leaving them. Gaura and they love full sun so under tree is not a good place. As far as your black eyed susans and coneflowers, if they were started from seed, then they just got a late start and next year will come back larger. Plants take time to grow and a newly planted perennial in your zone is going to take at least 3 years to grow large and look like the pictures you see. From the looks of things, I believe that being too close to the house could be a problem since lack of rainfall could be slowing up their growing process. I find that rain helps plants grow and if sheltered from it and watered just from the hose or watering can do not flourish like those watered by Mother Nature. As for cutting plants down, just leave that to nature for now until late fall through early spring so the birds can enjoy the seeds from the coneflowers and daisies. Or collect the seeds from the daisies and coneflowers and black eyed susans and spread them other places. Happy gardening.Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Aug 07, 2014I would follow Renee's advice to the T.Helpful Reply
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Dee on Sep 17, 2014Keep in mind the "Sleep, creep and leap" theory of perennials-the first year they sleep, the second they creep and the third year they LEAP!Helpful Reply
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