Re: Hydrangeas

Cindy: Thanks so much. You exactly answered my question. Don't you just love
hydrangeas? There's something so, well, voluptuous about them. And they
bloom when a lot of shade plants are going into decline.
Nancy


>In a message dated 1/8/00 6:53:26 AM Central Standard Time,
>stedman@INTERPORT.NET writes:
>
><< does anyone have experience with Hydrangea 'All Summer
> Beauty'? One of the most annoying things I've learned in recent years is
> that the flower buds on my hydrangea macrophyllas get blasted off in the
> early spring unless I wrap them in burlap. H. arborescens is no problem
> because it blooms on new wood, and for that I'm grateful, but I'm always
> looking for color. Supposedly 'All Summer Beauty' blooms on new wood (I
> think, in addition to old wood), and I was wondering if this is really true.
> Thanks,
> Nancy S. (zone 6B, NYC) >>
>
>Hi Nancy,
>
>Up here in zone 4a in MN, I have had one for 2 summers now so it's not very
>big),and last summer I was amazed at the color of the big flower heads every
>time I walked by it.  They had both pink and blue on each one.  Sooooo
>beautiful!   But a friend from Georgia that was staying here was not at all
>inpressed since he was comparing them to the big, gorgeous ones down south.
>
>Also, these were all on new wood, because I had pruned it back to about 5
>inches from the ground in the spring, since it had died back that far over
>the winter.  But we have not had a very hard winter since I got it.  I hope
>they are as beautiful this summer as last.
>
>Cindy Johnson
>White Bear Lake, MN
>zone 4a
>
>
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