Has/does anyone grow cleome flowering plants? I'm wondering

[babylonsister]

what, if anything, I can do to continue the blooming. Should I cut off the failing blooms (dead head) and hope for more? Is it a one-hit wonder? Thanks for any info, and here's a pic:

[flying_wahini]

1. I love those,

I have heard that they reseed veryyyyyy freely and will come up across the yard,
not sure if this is true, but they are beautiful...

[BOSSHOG]

2. Don't know but

I was out looking for just one more plant yesterday, just one more. I got a real pretty Verbenia I want to hang on a tree out back. When I got it home I noticed the name was Babylon Red and I remember you said you were looking for a hanging plant that doesn't need much deadheading. I think I got it in my backyard. I got a couple of insanely healthy tidal wave petunias that need deadheading about every hour. If you want a pretty plant that gets real big try a Magilla. Its in the coleous family and gets three feet tall.

[babylonsister]

3. Boss! I bought a double-flowering spreading petunia after discussion on here.

And, after more discussion here, I found the 'million bells'/calibrachoa. Here they are in the hanging baskets on the ground, which are now hanging. They're even dripping over the sides a bit (and it's only May!)

[BOSSHOG]

4. Beautiful Plants

I think I need a 12 step program for plant buying. I've stopped buying them several times this spring. I also have several seeds I'll probably never use but I get them "dirt" cheap. My wife is nurturing some Columbine from seeds and we have some New Guinea Impatiens on the front porch.

[TygrBright]

5. You will want to dead head them to keep them from seeding all over...

...which they do VERY freely, if they like where they are. That may encourage side shoots to bloom, too.

If they don't like it there they will be puny and sort of hesitant and you learn by experience not to plant them there again. I learned this with a dry southern exposure slope along one side of the house. The next year I wasn't going to try again, but my neighbor had some "extras" and I tucked them into a bare spot between the shrubbery and the toolshed. That was about five years ago, they threw seeds all over and I had plenty of volunteers the next year. I had to yank them out of the shrubbery all summer, and learned the deadheading trick. Even being conscientious with the deadheading, they managed to self-sow enough for the following year.

I don't live there anymore but I betcha they're still there unless the new owners bulldozed that part of the lot...

reminiscently,
Bright

[babylonsister]

6. Thank you, TygrBright. So, from your experience, they don't bloom

except for their initial glory? I'll be deadheading them soon; also sounds like they're a perennial though the tag I kept says annual (unless next year's growth is from the seeds, if I have any growth!).

[TygrBright]

7. They'll bloom off side shoots, and the more you deadhead them...

...the more side shoots you're likely to get. They're annuals that self-sow freely, so they're what I think of as "virtual" perennials-- IF they like where you've planted them.

clarifyingly,
Bright

[erinlough]

8. I love these

I have moved them around the garden to bare spots by either transplanting when they are still small, or stripping the seed pods in my hands and casting them for the next year. I have never dead-headed, but I will try it on some this year!

[LiberalEsto]

9. They are really tough

and reseed themselves every year. Deer won't touch them.