Stooling (Was: Re: Shade garden/was Aconitum..)

Claire,

What do you and Marilyn mean by "stooling?" Does it work on all types of
hydrangea, i.e., those that bloom on either old or new growth?

Gerry

At 11:56 AM 8/1/01 EDT, you wrote:
 >
>Not a perennial but treated as one is hydrangea paniculata. There are around 
>a dozen forms in the market, some approaching the lacecap types. The idea 
>here is that they bloom very late in the summer.  You can "stool" the shrub 
>yearly and have a flowring plant around three feet high (zone 4). I first
saw 
>this done in the UK with this PG hydrangea and cotinus.  Both can stand this 
>treatment and both will do fine in semi- shade to all shade.   I have a PG 
>about five or six years old and I prune it back to three inches every spring 
>- it is forming flower buds just now.
>
>Claire Peplowski
>NYS z4 
>
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