"junkyardcat" wrote:

I have several Nikko Blue Hydrangea plants. We had a hard freeze about a
month and a half ago, and all of my plants turned brown and crispy (in other
words, they look dead). Are they dead, or is that the way they look in the
Winter? If I cut them to the ground now, will they come back up in the
Spring?

That is normal. Nikko Blue Hydrangea is a type of Hydrangea
macrophylla. Macrophylla and quercifolia (oakleaf) bloom on last years
wood. Don't cut them back until after they bloom. They bloom on old
wood. They should be pruned immediately after flowering or not at all!
When pruning just cut out the old stalks that just finished blooming.

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