![]() They aren’t easy to control for size by pruning since they regrow quickly each season, and midsummer pruning will remove flowers. Limelight can grow to 8’ in all directions, so needs to be at least 5’ from the wall so you can get in behind it for maintenance and so the wall isn’t always damp, and Little Quickfire can get to 5’ tall x4’ wide. ![]() Both Limelight and Little Quickfire are panicled hydrangeas. Just so you know, you have two different species amongst your 3 varieties of hydrangeas. Mulch well after planting to help keep the soil temperature and moisture even. Should I try to move them now (zone 6B, temps in the 80's all week, would need to expand the bed the are in dramatically) or in the autumn when they lose their leaves?Īren’t hydrangeas wonderful?! I would transplant in the fall since the soil is warm but the days are getting shorter and cooler, so less stressful on the plants. The five Limelights are all leafed out, and growing like crazy. However, I vastly underestimated the distance they needed to be planted from the foundation, and this year, some are already touching the wall (one is actually growing right up against it).īlue Enchantress and Little QuickFire are already setting buds. The good news is that they are looking great and healthy this year. I finally splurged on a limelight, which grew so well that when I started to see hydrangeas on clearance last summer, I started accumulating quite a collection, and now I have 7 growing along my east wall. I had always loved them, but was afraid of growing them because the prices at local nurseries seemed to range from $30-60 a plant, and I couldn't afford the risk. wide.Last year, I got a bit addicted to clearance hydrangeas. It has strong red-purple stems and dark green leaves with red petioles and red veins and turns reddish purple in fall. wide mophead-type flower heads that are vivid deep rose to violet blue depending on the soil pH. It is a cross between 'The Original' and 'Twist-n-Shout', two members of the Endless Summer® series, hydrangeas that were bred for their cold hardiness and the ability to bloom on both old and new wood. 'P11HM-11', commonly sold under the trade name of BLOOMSTRUCK, was bred by Bailey Nurseries and Dr. Specific epithet comes from the Greek words makros meaning large and phyllon meaning leaf in reference to plant leaves. The genus name Hydrangea comes from hydor meaning "water" and aggeion meaning "vessel", in reference to the cup-like capsular fruit. It generally features serrate, obovate to elliptic, dark green leaves (4-8” long) and large clusters of long-blooming summer flowers in either lacecap form (flattened flower clusters of small fertile florets with scattered showy sterile florets often forming a marginal ring) or mophead form (globose flower clusters of mostly showy sterile florets). Louis area, typically grows 3-6’ tall and as wide unless damaged by harsh winters or pruned smaller. Hydrangea macrophylla, commonly called big leaf hydrangea, is a deciduous shrub with a rounded habit that, in the St. ![]() Their pruning and flowering can differ from that of the species. Some newer cultivars have been selected that flower on both old and new wood. low temperatures, sudden wide temperature fluctuations, icy conditions, late frosts). Regardless of protective measures taken, most bigleaf hydrangeas simply will not bloom (or will bloom poorly) in some years because of a variety of winter occurrences beyond the control of the gardener (e.g. A burlap wrap of stems or circle of chicken wire filled with leaves or straw to 8-12" are time-consuming and visually unattractive landscape options, but can be effective. For added protection, however, plants grown in USDA Zone 5 should be sited in sheltered locations and given additional winter protection, as needed, for the purposes of minimizing the risk of loss of significant numbers of flower buds or possible die-back to the ground in an extremely harsh winter. Best to mulch plants year-round with 3" of shredded bark, peat or compost. Prune out weak or winter-damaged stems in late winter/early spring. If needed, prune immediately after flowering by cutting back flowering stems to a pair of healthy buds. Begin soil treatments well in advance of flowering, as in late autumn or early spring. Add aluminum sulfate to the soil to make the flowers bluer or add lime to the soil to make the flowers pinker. Soil pH affects the flower color of most cultivars except white (blue in highly acidic soils and lilac to pink in slightly acidic to alkaline soils). Tolerates full sun only if grown in consistently moist soils. Best grown in rich, medium moisture, well-drained soils in part shade.
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