Hydrangea Care: Pruning Hydrangea Varieties
Hydrangeas can sometimes be a tricky plant to care for, so it is important to learn how to prune and when to prune different hydrangea varieties. Properly pruning hydrangeas based on your hydrangea’s variety will allow you to have more blooms next year.
Before you start pruning hydrangeas, it’s important to figure out which variety you have. If you prune at the wrong time, you could be cutting off next year’s blooms.
Even though my area is hardy to Zone 5, my ‘Endless Summer’ mophead hydrangea—which usually has huge blue blossoms all summer long—was killed to the ground. Luckily, it has the wonderful ability to bloom on both old and new wood, so even though they were a bit later than usual, there were still many blooms.
My other blue hydrangea is a lacecap-type, called ‘Let’s Dance Starlight’, but instead of the huge, mophead-type of flower cluster that ‘Endless Summer’ has, the lacecap hydrangea bears a flat blossom made up of many small, fertile flowers surrounded by a few showy, sterile flowers. It is also hardy to Zone 5 and blooms on both old and new wood.https://www.almanac.com/blog/gardening/garden-journal/hydrangea-care-pruning-hydrangea-varieties?trk_msg=BA30OTQH5DDKBAI9UNJREEME3O&trk_contact=EEBLFVJ2I0VAQT9EM5JFVJAK9O&trk_sid=AL500UOHM5LSELQMFVC9AUPHC0&utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Hydrangea+Care%3a+Pruning+Hydrangea+Varieties+(title)&utm_campaign=Companion+Daily
Before you start pruning hydrangeas, it’s important to figure out which variety you have. If you prune at the wrong time, you could be cutting off next year’s blooms.
Pruning Hydrangea Varieties
Bigleaf Hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla)Even though my area is hardy to Zone 5, my ‘Endless Summer’ mophead hydrangea—which usually has huge blue blossoms all summer long—was killed to the ground. Luckily, it has the wonderful ability to bloom on both old and new wood, so even though they were a bit later than usual, there were still many blooms.
My other blue hydrangea is a lacecap-type, called ‘Let’s Dance Starlight’, but instead of the huge, mophead-type of flower cluster that ‘Endless Summer’ has, the lacecap hydrangea bears a flat blossom made up of many small, fertile flowers surrounded by a few showy, sterile flowers. It is also hardy to Zone 5 and blooms on both old and new wood.https://www.almanac.com/blog/gardening/garden-journal/hydrangea-care-pruning-hydrangea-varieties?trk_msg=BA30OTQH5DDKBAI9UNJREEME3O&trk_contact=EEBLFVJ2I0VAQT9EM5JFVJAK9O&trk_sid=AL500UOHM5LSELQMFVC9AUPHC0&utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Hydrangea+Care%3a+Pruning+Hydrangea+Varieties+(title)&utm_campaign=Companion+Daily
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