Hydrangeas are one of the most popular flowers in the United States, thanks to their big, bouncy blooms that come in lovely shades of pink, blue, white, purple, and beyond. To get even more out of ...
Fall or spring, the time window for planting is weeks of mild weather. Catherine McQueen / Getty Images When you see a hydrangea in full bloom at a nursery, you might be tempted to buy it and plant it ...
Gardeners are always on the lookout for shrubs that have an extended bloom time, particularly over the months of summer. Some of the best choices in our area are hydrangeas, as these beauties start ...
Plant panicle hydrangeas in full sun and prune in early spring to promote more blooms. Smooth hydrangeas thrive in moist, ...
The best time to plant hydrangeas is fall or early spring; both give roots time to establish before extreme weather. In frost-free zones, like USDA zone 10, dormant hydrangeas can be planted in winter ...
After hydrangeas went "gangbusters" last year throughout Connecticut, this year's flowers have experienced more "heat injuries," according to a Connecticut plant diagnostician. Despite warm winter ...
Hydrangeas sport big bursts of flowers and are often found in Southern gardens, but they work well in nearly every landscape. They exhibit an old-fashioned charm and are appealing to many people.
The third week of July is the beginning of hydrangea season. I love hydrangeas so much that I have an entire outdoor garden room devoted to shade-loving hydrangeas. (You can see the blue and white ...
Hydrangeas are shrubs that provide large, showy, magnificent blooms when optimal growing conditions are provided. As a gardener, I struggled for many years attempting to provide the exact growing ...
Last year I attended a summer conference in Minnesota. We toured some really huge commercial facilities, greenhouses, propagation rooms and associated potting and shipping areas. It was really, really ...
The huge, pink mophead blooms of bigleaf hydrangea are one of the joys of summer for Chicago gardeners. What a disappointment when those blooms fail to fluff! “Bigleaf hydrangeas just aren’t entirely ...