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I have a fresh pot of pansies on my front porch thanks to my husband's grandma. They are absolutely beautiful. I've been deadheading (pinching the fading blooms) them to keep the blooms coming and throwing the old blooms in my compost pile.
Why deadhead? To keep the plants flowering for as long as possible. This prevents the plant from wasting energy in producing seeds, yet.
Pansies are annuals. They germinate, grow, flower, seed and die in one growing season.
This past year has been a hard one for a friend of mine. She and her family helped to care for her father. And then his health failed. She continued to care for him as he continued to decline. He died, and she is now healing.
When I deadhead my pansies I think of her. She was a beautiful bloom that spent her energy and love as God directed her. After her father died, the bloom was spent. God pinched off the faded bloom.
Now I am watching her flower again. This time her bloom is more beautiful.
It is inevitable that we all seed and die. Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. As some blooms are more beautiful, I do believe some will seed more than others as well. I'm sure my friend is one of these fruitful plants.
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