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Hydrangeas: A Users Guide

Garden know is essential if you want your hydrangeas to bloom and bloom. Lot’s of flowers on your hydrangea can be a slippery pruning challenge. Hydrangea bloom color is impacted by soil treatment and fertilizer. These plants can be extremely particular about the light conditions that they prefer.The following notes are meant to help guide you with your different hydrangea plants so you will get the most out of them.

Hydrangeas come in a few different varieties. Hydrangea arborescence,is one type of hydrangea and they have big white flowers and bloom on new wood. Hydrangea arborescence varieties bloom on “new” wood and should be pruned in Autumn. They will produce new stalks in the spring which will bloom. Paniculata hydrangeas are an ornamental tree form hydrangea that should be pruned in autumn as well. Seems simple: white flowers, prune in fall.

It gets more complicated when you realize that there are other kinds of hydrangeas called hydrangea macrophyllas-these are the kind of hydrangeas that have lovely magenta to bright blue flowers Hydrangea macrophyllas bloom on “old” wood and can ONLY be pruned before Mid-July the year before. Do not fret about how difficult this might seem?And probably not last but certainly not least is oakleaf hydrangea which blooms on “old” wood. So when would you prune it?? The summer before.

So now that you are totally afraid to touch your hydrangeas it’s time to tell you about what you can do to help your macrophyllas bloom in the color you like. If you want blue you need to acidify the soil and add aluminum to the soil. You can use pine needles, and throw down a bunch of pennies or rusty nails(yeah, my thought exactly)to help acheive this. It is hard work to effectively change soil pH in a garden and often does not work. If you want pink hydrangeas then a little more clay in the soil and a little less aluminum should work in your favor. Incidentally if you can’t get them to bloom in exactly the right color you were hoping for you can always put a few glass gazing balls on metal stands in the hydrangea bushes in blue or pink to get the color that way. These will look pretty and provide the accent of color you were trying to get minus all the hard work.

Hydrangeas have very special light requirements and can look unhealthy if they are not in the right location. Hydrangeas need part shade. Full sun is not recommended for hydrangeas as they will look unhealthy and not do well. They can survive in full shade but will be virtually with out flowers. They do best when they are plante in a spot that gets morning sun and PM shade. And as the name suggests they do not do well in drought(dry) conditions so remember to water them regularly and they should grow so abundantly you can use them as a hedge to hide an unsightly air conditioning unit, or plant them around the base of a ceramic bird feeder to hide all the spent seeds.

Hopefully these steps will increase the blooms on your hydrangeas. It is helpfull to have some information about the type of hydrangea you are dealing with before you do anything. All you have to do is memorize these simple tips and you will have lovely hydrangeas flowers in your garden too.

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