In deadheading any perennial that still has green tissue, simply remove the spent flowers back to the first set of leaves. Snipping with a pair of scissors does the job nice & neat.
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On a gerbera daisy, you snip all the way to the bottom of the stem. That stem that had the flower on it will never bear another bud - so you are waisting the plant's energy keeping the stem...