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Anyone have hydrangea bushes?
We planted some about 2 summers ago (this is their 3rd summer) and they have yet to actually bloom.
They get larger every year and get the little bud things that appear to want to bloom, but nothing!
Could it be the soil they're in? Or am I just a really bad gardener (which wouldn't surprise me)?
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Re: Anyone have hydrangea bushes?
A bought them at a local plant nursery. You can buy them pretty much anywhere.
Price will vary depending on type, brand and size.
i thought the answer was the soil (i know the pH is responsible for the various colored flowers). but google says:
Why doesn?t my hydrangea bloom?
There are three possibilities for lack of flowering among the hydrangea species. The first two ? too much shade and improper pruning ? apply to all hydrangeas, while the other ? weather-related damage to flower buds ? applies primarily to the bigleaf hydrangea.
While most Hydrangea species benefit from some shade, too much shade can reduce flowering. This is particularly true of panicle hydrangea, which is the one Hydrangea species that grows well in full sun. If you have a hydrangea that used to bloom well but now flowers only sparsely, evaluate whether the growth of nearby trees has reduced the amount of light that reaches the hydrangea. If so, you may want to consider moving the hydrangea to a sunnier location.
Improper pruning can also reduce flowering in Hydrangea. Since bigleaf and oakleaf hydrangeas flower on previous year?s growth, potential flowers buds would be removed if the plants were pruned in fall, winter or spring. Panicle and smooth hydrangea flower on this year?s growth, so pruning them in early summer would reduce or eliminate flowering for that year.
The most common reason for lack of flowering in the bigleaf hydrangea is unfavorable weather. Most H. macrophylla cultivars flower primarily on previous year?s growth. Weather conditions that damage aboveground parts of the plant can reduce flowering. Damaging weather conditions include early fall freezes that occur before the plant is completely dormant, extremely low winter temperatures, and late spring freezes that occur after the plant has broken dormancy. In USDA Cold Hardiness zone 6 and warmer, which is the recommended growing area for H. macrophylla, the most common of these unfavorable weather events is late spring freezes that damage tender new growth. This is particularly true in the southeastern U.S., where "see-saw" temperatures are very common in the spring.
Bigleaf hydrangea responds quickly to warm temperatures in late winter and early spring by breaking dormancy and producing new leaves. Unfortunately, these spells of warm weather are often followed by periods in which temperatures reach well below freezing. The severity of the damage caused by these freezes depends on how many of the buds had broken dormancy. If a substantial portion of the buds on a stem were actively growing, the whole branch may die. For some cultivars, the loss of the aboveground part of the plant will completely eliminate flowering the following summer. The plant will produce new buds from the base of the stems, but stems produced from these buds will not flower in these cultivars.
Other cultivars,
such as 'All Summer Beauty' (see image at right),
'Nikko Blue' (see image at left),
and 'Madame Emile Mouillere' (see image below),
are a bit more flexible, and will flower from the buds that develop from the base of the stem. However, if another cycle of warm weather followed by freezing temperatures damages shoots developing from these buds, these cultivars may flower only lightly, if at all.
EDITED to remove pics.
We have one in the corner of our backyard. It's huge - taller than I am and wider than my armspan. It was already here (and huge) when we moved in. We've never trimmed or pruned it.
I know that doesn't really help you much, but maybe if you can get it good and established it will take off.
ours also gets morning sun. Very little sun throughout the rest of the day. Maybe you're plant is getting too much sun Michelle?
Not really sure. It's on the south side of the house, so it gets morning and early afternoon sun. It's shaded over by about 1ish.
I just planted a small hydrangea this past June. It's on the east side of our house and gets morning sun. It looks like it's going to die though...so I can't give you any good advice...BUT when I transplanted the rhododendron (this is the second time it has been transplanted) it looked like it was dying, then came back huge the next year...so there may be hope for the hydrangea yet.
I was leaning with yours to how much sun it gets. If it has buds, but no blooms, it's not weather related, so your only other thing (besides soil) is sun exposure.
You can try feeding them with some Miracle Grow miracid that's especially for hydrangeas. I just did it yesterday, actually, on my dad's hydrangeas and it always helps them come back to life after they're wilting from the sun/heat. Hydrangeas need sun but also need a lot of water. Maybe they're not getting enough?
Ditto this, I used a special miracle grow for hydrangeas, and it helped. Also ditto pp, the first couple of years my hydrangeas were not really doing well, but in the past couple of years they are booming. However, I have two plants each of two different kinds; the white ones do a lot better than the pink ones, and they are all in the same area. So, part of it might be a crapshoot of some sort.
Not sure any of this was helpful...haven't had my morning coffee yet.