Re: hydrangea question
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- Subject: Re: [SG] hydrangea question
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:08:01 -0400
Hmmm...I generally use "senior moment" as my excuse:-) I'd have guessed
the PeeGee (H. paniculata) except that you say yours has round heads and I
think that species has conical ones...don't grow it, so don't really know.
Re: your other post. I pound stakes inside the shrub and weave twine
around the stems to hold up 'Annabelle' (when I get around to it...doesn't
always happen). If you place your stakes right, you don't even see them.
Needs to be done early on; something I *never* get around to, so it's
always a bit of a delicate operation. If you do it early, you see the
stakes for a while, but the doing is much easier.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: jgadney <jgadney@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
> Date: Monday, August 23, 1999 4:56 PM
>
> Thanks for reminding me of 'Annabelle." That's the one in my border that
> receives part sun. I would guess that it is the weight of the blossoms;
> they're huge, beautiful and plentiful. The medication I'm on for
arthritis
> is making my mind forgetful (at least that's the convenient excuse I use)
> :-)
>
> Now if someone would remind me of the other hydrangea. It's a common
> variety: large white round heads that turn to a sort of ivory as the
flowers
> age. My wife uses them in dried arrangements.
>
> John Adney
> Marion, Iowa (zones 4-5)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marge Talt <mtalt@CLARK.NET>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
<shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
> Date: Monday, August 23, 1999 12:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [SG] hydrangea question
>
>
> >Dunno what kind you've got, John, but expect they are bent over with the
> >weight of the blooms. My 'Annabelle' does this regularly as do some of
the
> >others with large blossoms; stems are so succulent, they just can't
support
> >that flowery weight.
> >
> >
> >Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> >mtalt@clark.net
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> >> From: jgadney <jgadney@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
> >> Date: Sunday, August 22, 1999 7:34 PM
> >>
> >> 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)
