Endless Summer Hydrangea Pruning

Pruning bigleaf hydrangea in the spring or even late fall after the buds have been set will remove the flower buds and any chance of getting flowers that season. If you prune too much you will be removing potential blooms.

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Endless summer hydrangea pruning

Pruning endless summer hydrangea is very forgiving and will not suffer if left unpruned or pruned at the wrong time. Because the flowers will come about on new and old growth alike you can choose to prune your endless summer hydrangea or not prune it and it won t matter much in terms of flower production. Once that growth was lost to severe winter conditions damage or inadvertent fall pruning all flowers for the following season were lost.

Plan plant care. In fact young recently planted shrubs are best left alone. The endless summer series blooms on both new and old wood.

These perennial hydrangeas bloom on growth from the current year as well as previous years which allows for the re blooming throughout the summer. Meet the four beautiful varieties of hydrangea macrophylla in the endless summer collection. Older hydrangea varieties bloomed only on old wood or stems from the previous season s growth.

This means it will produce blooms on both this year s and last year s canes. Sadly only those remontant varieties may be the ones with flowers this year unless you purchase a new shrub. The one of a kind reblooming garden hydrangea.

Hydrangea macrophylla endless summer is a remontant variety. Great tips on how to plan plant and care for your endless summer hydrangeas throughout the seasons. Endless summer hydrangeas hydrangea macrophylla bailmer like other bigleaf hydrangeas grow best in partial shade and rich consistently moist soil.

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