Growing Hydrangeas - Beginner Style
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- bindweed
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- Jojo
- Phytor
- Gay_Klok
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Georgene A. Bramlage
- Scribble51
- Kmmy
- terry70
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» bindweed - Your Zone 3 question
Hi Jojo,Semi-shade blooming shrubs. Yikes, I don't have many suggestions aside from native Vaccinium, Snowberry or Thimbleberry or Mahonia :-) There are other ornamental Rubus (interesting stems) that might do okay. Some Viburnum's such as sargentii might make it.
Best advice check out what the local gardener's are getting away with and go through some catalog's such as Heronwood's.
There is a good list of hardy roses I could suggest -- but the Northwest siting sort of stumps me.
One might also look for foliage or berries, Aronia, Berberis, Callicarpa, Daphne mezeeum and some of the hardy Euonymus might provide some interest. Kolkwitzia would be nice with the lilac.
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Unrelated: Two interesting combinations for hydrangea's. One customer (Bita) planted a deep red hydrangea next to a smoke tree. The dark green foliage and flowers make this very interesting. A blue form might have provided more contrast... speaking of which I planted two blues and planted Crocosmia 'Norwich Canary' in front. Should be nice? The blue hydrangea's turned pink (in an acid soil to boot) -- the combination was ghastly!
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» Jojo - Re: transplanting a hydrangea
In part it depends where you live, but generally, fall, after the leaves have dropped (and you've pruned). If you live in an area where you are already providing winter protection for the Hydrangea, then it is best to wait til spring.Spring transplanting will require more attention to soil moisture during the following summer.
Also, regardless of season, feed the new roots with a few handfuls of phosphorus (bonemeal, bulb food, transplanting fertilizer or rock phosphate.
-- posted by Jojo
» Phytor - Hydrangeas
Help, my hydrangeas did not flower this year:(I had trimmed them in the fall, added aluminum for blue in spring, watched them grow into healthy green bushes, and that's it-green bushes.
I had given them Miracle Grow every 2 weeks in spring also.?Will they ever grow flowers again?
-- posted by Phytor
» Gay_Klok - Re: Hydrangeas
In response to message posted by Phytor:That seems odd. Maybe too much Miracle Grow which encourages the plant to make leaves and not the flowers?
Or maybe you snipped at the wrong place - cut back to where there are two buds showung on opposite side of the stem - these are the shoots that will give you the blooms next year.
I am sure, if you cut down [out] the fertilizer and don't prune, you will get flowers next Summer
-- posted by Gay_Klok
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Georgene A. Bramlage
- Re: Hydrangeas
Hi!
Gay has answered a goodly portion of your question...however...
Why not post this question in the Forum on the Garden Community Page and see what answers you receive there?
Please include your location and growing zone when you do post your question.
Thanks!
-- posted by Georgene A. Bramlage
» Scribble51 - Re: Hydrangeas
In response to message posted by Phytor:I know this is an older posting, but it came up on a search I ran on "hydrangeas" -
Do not put Miracle Gro on hydrangeas. My mother has beautiful hydrangeas planted in 1935. They were covered in blooms every year until she went on a Miracle Gro binge to help her other perennials recover from a late spring. She thought they didn't bloom because they were recovering from a harsh winter. After 2 years of no blooms we called a guy I found online who'd grown them for years in the south. The first thing he asked was if we'd been using Miracle Gro. She quit using it on her hydrangeas and they are blooming again. Thanks
-- posted by Scribble51
» Kmmy - Pruning and Transplanting
I need some help. I recently bought my first hydrangea and I'm getting ready to transplant it but I'm a little confused about if I should pruning it. The flowers have died off the plant, so should I prune it and then transplant it or transplant it then prune it, or transplant it and don't prune it? If anyone can give me some help I would be very greatful-- posted by Kmmy
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