Hydrangea

This year has been an exceptional year for the Hydrangea, where ever you look they seem to be bursting out with colour hanging over fences and walls as if they are just showing off there beautiful blooms.

If you have a hydrangea in your garden and never had any flowers from it then there could be a couple of simple reasons.

If spring starts off mild and then we get hard frost, Hydrangeas not of the hardy kind will suffer from starting to grow in the early spring and then being subjected to hard frost, the tips of the branches will die and you will end up pruning off the dead wood.

And if you are pruning your Hydrangea every year in late Autumn you will not get flowers the following year, flowers only appear the second year so you will land with a Hydrangea full of leaves the following year. During the winter months the hydrangea will look a bit sorry for itself, but it is important to leave it alone for getting them flowers during the second year after any pruning. If you are thinking of planting hydrangea I would suggest you plant them in pairs, that would allow you to prune one each year without losing out on any flowers in two years time.

With a variety of colours they can transform your garden in the spring and summer time.

For further information I would suggest having a look at The Royal Horticultural Society