Hydrangeas

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Permalink Reply by Pedro calderon on September 17, 2009 at 8:11am

any responds about my hydrangeas?, should I trash them?, kevin, anything to say about it? what kind of hydrangeas will bloom ?

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Permalink Reply by gina rayl on September 17, 2009 at 11:01am

Not too much info to go on- I generally find the time of year they are planted and amount of water they get affect their flowering. If the plant is otherwise healthy keep it and give it more water, it should flower just fine next year.
Make sure to prune it properly too-in years that I dont prune properly i get less flowers.

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Permalink Reply by Sally M. Williams on September 30, 2009 at 7:56pm

Pedro, I heard a discussion on the Toby Tobin radio show that many people didn't get blooms from their hydrangeas this year. I had the same problem. The suggestions they had for next year are:

1) For winter, try to protect the branches as much as possible. You can spray the stems with Wilt Pruf and/or put a chicken wire screen around the hydrangea and fill it high with mulch or leaves. You can also cover the plant with one of the shrub bags and fill it with mulch or leaves.

2) Don't cut any hydrangeas back, even the Endless Summer varieties, until the plant is leafing out in the spring. Then only cut the dead stems. The Endless Summer varieties are not blooming well on new wood (they're advertised to bloom on both old and new wood). So don't cut back unless you're certain the stem is dead.

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