Hydrangea Fertilizer: What To Feed for The Best Results

fertilizing hydrangeas

Beautiful and huge flower heads are the main reasons that gardeners around the world adore their hydrangea plants. Being relatively easy to grow and care for just makes them even more lovable.  You can encourage your hydrangeas to produce a greater abundance of flowers, and even bigger blooms so that you can enjoy their magnificent … Read more

How to Propagate Hydrangeas Successfully

propagating hydrangeas

With their spectacular and long-lasting summer color, it’s hardly surprising that the hydrangea is one of the most popular garden flowers. The most widely grown hydrangea is the mophead, which comes in either white, pink, or – in very acidic soil – blue. But there are other varieties too, each of which is worth growing … Read more

How and When to Transplant Hydrangeas

transplanting hydrangeas

Like millions of gardeners worldwide, you have decided to include a hydrangea shrub in your planting scheme. It’s hardly surprising that the hydrangea is probably the most widely grown, flowering shrub.  The flowers seem to go on forever, the magnificent blooms herald “Summer” like no other plant, and unlike many other beautiful flowers, the hydrangea … Read more

How to Deadhead Hydrangeas

deadheading hydrangeas

Everyone loves the hydrangea and thinks of the giant mophead or the more delicate but equally spectacular lacecap varieties. Gorgeous, long-lasting blooms that seem to go on and on throughout the summer. But when the blooms have faded, uncertainty abounds as to what is the correct approach to take. Which Types of Hydrangea Can You … Read more

How to Prune Hydrangeas Successfully

pruning hydrangeas

Pruning, cutting back, and trimming are all different terms for the same thing, and it’s an important annual gardening task. But it’s equally essential that you know what you are doing because if you just go ahead and hack your hydrangea, you may well end up next year with a nonflowering specimen. So because no … Read more

How to Grow Hydrangeas from Seed

growing hydrangea seeds

One of the most loved summer-flowering shrubs is the hydrangea, particularly a bigleaf variety. Planting hydrangeas is a very rewarding gardening activity. The hydrangea is a traditional gardener’s favorite and the immense, showy blooms add long-lasting color even when many other perennials have faded. Propagating hydrangea is most usually carried out by layering or by … Read more

How to Make Hydrangeas Bloom

hydrangea not blooming

Hydrangea flowers are a traditional and all-time favorite plant in the garden. Their majestic blooms shout “Summer is Here!” like no other flowering shrub. They come back every year, require little maintenance, and should never disappoint. But sometimes you may be faced with a hydrangea that doesn’t perform as well as expected.  Before you can … Read more

How to Grow and Care for Smooth Hydrangea (H. arborescens)

smooth hydrangea

The Hydrangea arborescens, commonly known as smooth hydrangea and wild hydrangea, is a lovely shrub that has enormous creamy, white flowers in early summer. It is perennial, deciduous, and grows in USDA zones 3 to 9. This variety of hydrangea has large serrated leaves and its bark can peel off in successive layers in winter, … Read more

How to Grow and Care for Climbing Hydrangeas (H. petiolaris)

climbing hydrangea

The climbing hydrangea (Hydrangea petiolaris) is less well-known than the showy mophead hydrangea. This hydrangea is a large, perennial vine that needs substantial support for its heavy foliage and flowers. Its vines twine around the support available and also latch on with a network of aerial roots that form along its central stem. This hydrangea … Read more