Re: hydrangea question
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] hydrangea question
- From: j*
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:34:30 -0500
We've had plenty of rain, and two of my five hydrangeas still bent over. One
is in shade much of the day, and I believe this is the reason, along with
heavy rains; the blooms also have been large and many of them. The other is
in partial shade, and leans toward the sunlight. It also has had enormous
blossoms, more than usual. The others are behaving as expected.
John Adney
Marion, Iowa (zones 4-5)
-----Original Message-----
From: marilyn <marimuse@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Sunday, August 22, 1999 5:00 PM
Subject: [SG] hydrangea question
>Hi, all, hope eveeryone is enjoying the end of summer gardening....I have
not been
>able to garden at all at my new house, since I have to get some beds dug,
which I
>cannot do, and have been on crutches all summer, anyway, so the garden is
still in my
>mind......
>
>but I do have a question....this actually came from the people who bought
my old
>house. I had a wonderful hydrangea, in a mostly shady spot, which it seemed
to be
>very happy in.... but the people who moved in sent me an email and asked me
what to
>do with it, since it apparently has bent way over and the boughs kind of
collapsed to
>the ground..... any idea why this might have happened? It never happened
to me
>before, I was wondering if it could have anything to do with the water
>situation.....We have had almost NO rain this summer, and the few times
that it
>rained, it just poured for a while, and then that was it.....anyway, I was
wondering
>if anyone might have an idea of what is happening, and why, and what to do
about
>it........thanks.
>
>Marilyn
