rhubarb flower - Gardening Tips
inforum: Fielding Questions: Identifying a plant, a better way to grow radishes, flower stalks on rhubarb Fielding Questions: Identifying a plant, a better way to grow radishes, flower stalks on rhubarb Q: This is the second year for my rhubarb plant and it has several blooms (looks like a cauliflower) with the stalks. Is this normal or is it a fungus? A: The blooms are the flowers of the rhubarb.
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Rhubarb and chives are blooming together on my deck ” several plumes of luminous, creamy rhubarb flowers on thick stalks above large, beautifully shaped leaves surrounded by many balls of rosy lilac ... Question: I just noticed that one of my rhubarb plants is sending up a flowering stalk. Does this hurt the plant? Should I cut it off.
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Does it mean the plant will die? What, if anything, should I do? We humans can be so difficult to please. If plants flower when we want them to, we call it blooming. But if plants flowers when we don’t want them to, we call it bolting.
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