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Hydrangeas not blooming
This is the second year since I have had these blue hydrangeas(2
plants). They were flowering at the time I bought them at Home Depot last year. I had cut them to ground in fall. Now they have good foliage on them(about the size they were last year), but there is not a single bloom or any sight of it. What's going on? Will they bloom this year? BB(wanting to see blooms in my hydrangeas) |
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Hydrangeas not blooming
Mine just started to bloom two days ago.
I had cut mine down as well. Jo "Bluebee Sky" wrote in message ... This is the second year since I have had these blue hydrangeas(2 plants). They were flowering at the time I bought them at Home Depot last year. I had cut them to ground in fall. Now they have good foliage on them(about the size they were last year), but there is not a single bloom or any sight of it. What's going on? Will they bloom this year? BB(wanting to see blooms in my hydrangeas) |
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Hydrangeas not blooming
Bluebee Sky wrote:
This is the second year since I have had these blue hydrangeas(2 plants). They were flowering at the time I bought them at Home Depot last year. I had cut them to ground in fall. Now they have good foliage on them(about the size they were last year), but there is not a single bloom or any sight of it. What's going on? Will they bloom this year? BB(wanting to see blooms in my hydrangeas) Some hydrangeas bloom on year old wood so you should not prune them in the fall. http://www.hydrangeashydrangeas.com/wont_bloom.html |
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Hydrangeas not blooming
Jo wrote:
Mine just started to bloom two days ago. I had cut mine down as well. Interesting - I did not cut the big blue hydrangeas down at all last year, and mine are very much over for the season now. They started in early June along with the gardenias. I had a full crop (4 or 5 bushes at least 25 years old in front of my house). I fertilized with the x-tone (holly-, tree-, plant-?? don't recall) recommended for acid loving plants in the fall and put a couple buckets of mir-acid on them in the spring. I was thinking of pruning them back as soon as all the blooms are gone (any day now) because they do bloom on old-wood and I'd like to get a good "first-year" growth going before fall/winter sets in. They are getting pretty ragged and lanky since I didn't trim them at all last year. Does anyone think that sounds right? Jo "Bluebee Sky" wrote in message ... This is the second year since I have had these blue hydrangeas(2 plants). They were flowering at the time I bought them at Home Depot last year. I had cut them to ground in fall. Now they have good foliage on them(about the size they were last year), but there is not a single bloom or any sight of it. What's going on? Will they bloom this year? BB(wanting to see blooms in my hydrangeas) -- Brent Harsh - KD4PBO /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Say bharsh at ncroadrunner \ / NO to HTML in email and news. ------------------------X------------------------------- Cary, NC, USA / \ Read my mail with fixed fonts. |
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"Brent Harsh" wrote in message .com... Jo wrote: Mine just started to bloom two days ago. I had cut mine down as well. Interesting - I did not cut the big blue hydrangeas down at all last year, and mine are very much over for the season now. They started in early June along with the gardenias. I had a full crop (4 or 5 bushes at least 25 years old in front of my house). I fertilized with the x-tone (holly-, tree-, plant-?? don't recall) recommended for acid loving plants in the fall and put a couple buckets of mir-acid on them in the spring. I was thinking of pruning them back as soon as all the blooms are gone (any day now) because they do bloom on old-wood and I'd like to get a good "first-year" growth going before fall/winter sets in. They are getting pretty ragged and lanky since I didn't trim them at all last year. Does anyone think that sounds right? snip I'd try cutting only part of the stuff you'd like to cut back, then see how it does. You can always trim more, but you can't un-trim. Murri |
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