Re: need a plant recomendation

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• From: &* T* <m*@hort.net>
• Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 02:01:47 -0500

Donna - not Bonnie, but FWIW.  With climbing hydrangeas you have to
have a lot of patience.  They are very slow to get off the mark. 
Once they do establish, they grow fairly rapidly, but you can wait a
long time for blooms.  Seems to me mine took about 5 or 6 years or
more - and didn't actually bloom until I had a discussion with it
about compost heaps.  Now (after 15 years or so) it's about 15' up
what I had thought was a dead locust I'd had topped (it lives; you
can't kill those durn trees) and branched out 4 or 5 feet  - lovely
vine, but it needs patience:-)

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Donna  <justme@prairieinet.net>
> Bonnie,
> 
> Do you do anything special for the climbing hydrangea? Local
nursery
> claimed it would be hardy here so I added it late this year. Didn't
seem
> to like it here and wasn't looking to good in the fall, might just
be
> due to transplanting. Not sure if it will make it or not.

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