Re: Hydrangeas
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- Subject: Re: Hydrangeas
- From: M* T*
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:15:33 -0400
Yep...this one blooms on new wood. If it doesn't die back to the ground
over winter, it can be cut back to the ground or the lowest pair of
breaking buds.
Barb...dunno if you will get bloom, be interested to know as I've not tried
this idea. But, think it in the nature of this plant to flop, which can
get on your nerves and fencing "girdle" is the best solution:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Barb Pernacciaro <bpern@idcnet.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 11:59 PM
>
> I grow Hydrangea 'Annabelle' here in Wisconsin, and it dies back to the
ground
> every winter. It definitely blooms on first year wood for me - there is
no
> second year wood. Yes, the flower heads are so large that usually they
flop
> over, so I have the shrub "girdled" (as Marge so aptly described) with a
> grow-through arrangement of metal fencing and mesh. This year, I decided
to cut
> off the tiny flower buds at the terminal ends of the branches, as in the
"Well
> Tended Perennial Garden", to see if each tip would break new branches and
form
> more, but smaller flowers. So we'll see if I get smaller "mopheads" or no
> flowers at all!
> --
> Barb P.
> SE Wisconsin, Zone 4
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