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Beautiful Hydrangeas For Your Garden

The most popular method to make your garden awesome and beautiful with bright scenery is to have flowering plants. Regardless of the season, there is that instinct that human souls desire for flowers to create beauty in the home. Let us discover the flowering plant loved by both Northerners and southerners.

The flowers I am talking in this article is the Hydrangeas flowering plants. Many gardeners, home landscapers, and breeders are getting interested to hydrangeas and it is on the way now restoring their lost popularity in the old times. Usually, people just looked at this kind of flowers during their childhood growing alongside the porch of their grandmother’s house those times when white was widely available for the northern landscapers and gardeners. Today with the innovation and the presentation of the Northern variety of colors, hydrangeas have taken pleasure to almost any location countrywide.

Today, breeders are able to produce a wide range of color of hydrangeas though some of them do not bloom well or at all in Northern climates. The main reason maybe is due to winter injury and improper late season pruning.

Before, most hydrangea have blooms starting in the fall the reason that the buds are vulnerable to winter kill. Today there are new innovations making to set their flower buds during spring time, to ensure blooms every year especially for gardeners living in the Northern climate. Doing prune in the late fall or in early spring will take away the developed flower buds of many hydrangeas.

A new breed like Forever and Ever Hydrangea have its blooms develop on the new growth and bloom each and every year even though the pruning was done at the wrong time. These latest growth bloomers have their longer period of bloom and are perfect for mass landscape, border planting or container plants. Their huge flowers can also be made into cut or dried flowers and give great colors in the areas partially shaded as well.

Hydrangea breeders started discovering and doing breeding with new varieties and integrate these to the recent varieties. On 2005, Forever and Ever hydrangeas was first introduced presenting with 3 different colors in pink, double pink and red and available in any garden centers during spring time. Colors may differ depending on the soil pH composition in which pinks may be replaced with blue shades. Nevertheless, may it be bloom with blue or pink, still it is the same, dynamic, wonderful addition to any landscape garden.

How To Grow Hydrangeas

Whether you call them Hydrangea Macrophylla, House Hydrangea, French Hydrangea,, or Mopheads, growing Hydrangeas in the home garden can be an enjoyable experience. They are lovely, whether used as single plants or in mass, such as in a hedge, or border.

Growing Conditions:
Hydrangeas grow best in partial shade to full sun. They prefer morning sun and afternoon shade, especially in hot areas
Hydrangeas need a lot of water. In fact the word “Hydrangea” comes from the Greek for “water tub”!
They grow best in rich soil, so dig in a lot of compost, and other organic matter, when you plant them, and mulch well.

Fertilization:
Fertilize liberally in the spring, in May in the South, and again in August. Wait until June to fertilize in northern areas. Use a good balanced, slow-release, fertilizer and apply ¼ cup around the base of a very small plant, and 1-2 cups around a very large plant. Spread out to drip line, but don’t get it next to the trunk. Mulch with homemade compost to cover roots. Never fertilize a plant that looks sick or wilted, it will just stress it more.

Propagation:
You can propagate from softwood cuttings in June. Take a 6″-8″ tip cutting, strip off the bottom leaves, dip end in rooting hormone, then stick about one inch deep in sterile moist sand, vermiculite or sphagnum moss. Create a mini green house over plants with plastic and place in bright light, not full sun, until roots form. Or, you can just root them in water. Again, place in bright light away from full sun until the roots form.

Planting:
1. Dig a hole 2 times as deep and wide as the root ball. Break up soil in the hole and mix in 1 inch compost.
2. Remove from container and loosen soil around outside of root ball.
3. Set in hole so plant is at same level it was in the pot, you may need to add dirt back into the hole to raise it up.
4. Fill in hole, around plant, with the soil and pack gently. Water well to remove air pockets. Mulch well with compost.
5. Early fall is the best time to plant new Hydrangeas.

Pruning:
In Spring, prune back old or damaged growth, and old flower stems. Don’t cut new shoots, they are where the new blooms will be.
In late summer, after blooming, prune to just above the next outward facing bud. For larger flower clusters, thin plant down to half the number of stems.

Problems:
Powdery Mildew–evidenced by white powder on leaves, which then turn yellow and wilt. Treat by removing infected parts and
spraying with a fungicide.

If the plants aren’t blooming well, it could be due to: 1. Winter kill. The buds form on the previous years growth, and can be killed off if temps drop below 25 degrees Fahrenheit. Protect when harsh weather is expected. 2. Too much shade. They prefer partial to full sun, preferably morning sun, with shade during the hot afternoons. 3. Poor fertilization

Fun Fact:
You can change the color of the blossoms, by changing the acidity of the soil.
Add Aluminum Sulfate to make the soil acid for Blue flowers. Or, add Lime to make the soil alkaline for Pink flowers.
You will need to repeat the process 2 or 3 times over the growing season and continue it as long as you want the change to continue. It may take a year or two to see the results you want. This doesn’t usually work on the white varieties on Hydrangeas.

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