Care For Hydrangeas
Garden know is essential if you want your hydrangeas to bloom and bloom. They can be tricky to prune in order to bloom abundantly. They are particular about what kind of soil and fertilizer they receive for bloom color. These plants can be extremely particular about the light conditions that they prefer.This is a guide to help you prune your hydrangea plants.
There are quite a few hydrangea plant types and varieties. Hydrangea arborescence-one type of hydrangea-are sometimes called snow ball bush because of their white flowers and they bloom on new wood. Hydrangea arborescence varieties bloom on “new” wood and should be pruned in Autumn. These hydrangeas will put out new growth in spring which will have lots of flowers. Paniculata hydrangeas are an ornamental tree form hydrangea that should be trimmed in autumn as well. Follow this simple rule: bloom white, prune in autumn.
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 pink or blue flowers Hydrangea macrophyllas bloom on “old” wood and can ONLY be pruned before Mid-July the year before. It might seem difficult at first but once you get it your hydrangeas will look great?There is also oakleaf hydrangea which is also an “old” wood bloomer. So when would you prune it?? The summer before.
There are a few things you can try in order to promote the pink or blueness of your flowers. If you want blue you need to acidify the soil and add aluminum to the soil. Throw some pennies around the bottom of your hydrangea and add some pine needle mulch to increase the acidity. Changing the pH of your soil from alkaline to acid is a lot of hard work and does not usually go so well. Less acidic soil will promote your hydrangea plant to produce pinker blooms. Incidentally if you can’t get them to bloom in exactly the right color you were hoping for you can always put a few recycled glass gazing globes on designer gazing ball stands in the hydrangea bushes in blue or pink to get the color that way. It looks nice and gives you the color accent you are looking for without all the hard labor of transforming your soil pH.
Unhealthy looking hydrangeas are probably getting too much sun or too much shade. They need partial shade. They will live in the sun, but they won’t look good in the sun. They will live in full shade, but they won’t look good in full shade. They do best when they are plante in a spot that gets AM 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 bird feeder to hide all the spent seeds.
These [helpfull] hints should help increase the abundance of flowers on your hydrangeas. Clearly it is of utmost importance to be armed with some information about what kind of hydrangea plant you are dealing with before you even touch your plant or the soil around it. All you have to do is memorize these simple tips and you will have lovely hydrangeas flowers in your garden too.