r/hydrangeas

A few weeks I came here and posted the picture of my overgrown hydrangea. And not many people commented and the only ones said to ask a professional. Well, I actually am the professional lol but I always fret most over my own trees.
I decided to give myself some advice like I was my own client. Last winter, I had already removed 40 percent of the canopy last winter to start the rejuvenation process. It was so hard to look at this spring… boy was it ugly. But! As summer progressed, it recovered and then I have given it a final haircut. Ahhh now that feels better. :)

Floppy Hydrangeas

Help! What do I need to do to prevent these from floppy from the weight of the flowers? I did a heavy pruning last year after this happened for the first time but it’s still happening. Do I just need to do a hard prune in the fall? How do I make the stems stronger? There is way too many bushes to use stakes.

I planted these plants this summer and they get full sun all day. They’re strawberry sundae so they should go from white to pink to a red. Mine went from white to light green.

Why are the new stems such a bright green? Why didn’t he heads turn light green? >!I’m in zo!<ne 5a and we’ve had an unseasonably warm summer. Wondering if I under-watered and over-fertilized

My mother propagated from my childhood home and planted these at my new home. They did great for a little over a month. They had new growth and bloomed. I watered regularly and added plant fertilizer occasionally. Recently in the past 3ish weeks they have lost all color, first turning green and are now browning. Zone: 7a (According to the new 2023 map) Zone: 6b (According to the 2012 map). Porch faces north west. Last photo is from June 28th and today is August 19th.

hi! i just planted these last week & my MIL told my husband they were diseased and needed to be removed. is that correct? thank you!!!

From a drought-ridden London, UK.

(The first pictures are from mid July, the next two are from yesterday.)

Coastal Maine zone 6a-5b, “Let’s Dance Sky View” (Hydrangea macrophylla x serrata). There’s ledge pretty much everywhere on the property where they’re planted but they were planted with just enough depth I think, just deep enough to plant the entire thing up to the base of the stem. The area gets late morning sun and afternoon sun. Our house is rented for the summer and I made the horrible decision to plant new hydrangeas without being able to really water them or keep a close eye on them. Lesson learned :/ I guess I just want to make sure this is due to too much sun and not enough water.

I also planted them very close together because of ledge restriction(that was as far apart as I could plant them) but I wanted to hope for the best 😭

Saw these in Vermont. Absolutely gorgeous panicle hydrangeas.