So fun to have this mini update Tracy! I love the Quick Fire standard so much, the lace cap is great for pollinators! I have 2 Quick Fire Fabs and like you I love those too! I'm looking to get 2 more to create a hedge near our front yard gate for both privacy and a nice welcome. The Limelight Prime is looking good! I have a Little Lime and I think the colors of it are just perfect. Isn't it great that Proven Winners gives us so many varieties to choose from? Something for everyone!!
Oh yes, I agree ☝️…there is so much work behind breeding and selection plants…and all the people at PW are doing a fantastic job at it. All the recent introductions are so great and like you said…there is something for everyone…and I love them all. Just too bad I don’t have enough space to plant every variety. My Quick Fire is a pollinator magnet 🧲…and I’m so glad for that. 💚💚💚 Oh…I’m trying to imagine a hedge of the Quick Fire Fab…😍😍😍 Happy gardening!
@@TracysHomeGarden yes! Your voice is so calming. I have a very stressful job and listening to your videos at night really helps me relax! I’m also a gardener in my spare time. I think I now have 12 varieties of hydrangea thanks to your videos!
Hi Tracey, and thank U so much for sharing your information about these new hydrangeas! I luv the full panicle hydrangeas. I have an old fashioned pee-wee hydrangea and she performs beautifully for me each year and turns a deep pink color in fall!!! I have a lime light I purchased in 2020, and it was small and I only had i flower. This year it must be 4x4 and is covered in buds that are starting to open!!! I live in the US zone 4b. My hydrangeas are doing well and I’m very grateful for finding your channel! I have learned so much from you and I will be saving my petunia seeds this year! Thank you for sharing your beautiful gardens and tips with us!!! Love it all❣️😊👍🏻
Thank you Brenda! I’m so glad you also like hydrangeas as I do…the Limelight will definitely be growing more in the next few years and eventually reach 6-8 ft tall and wide (even in zone 4b climate…although it may take a little longer in the cooler climate because of the shorter growing season). I think growing annuals from seeds we collect in our garden is so much fun as what we get will be very different than the original plant. I have 5 different color blooms from seeds collected on one of my petunia plant last year. And…6-8 different colors of blooms from seeds collected from 3 of my calibrachoa plants. It also saves $$ as well. Happy gardening Brenda!
Hello Tracy! Your garden is beautiful as usual! I love the colours of your hydrangeas and I can’t wait to see them when they’ve change their colours later on. We have some hydrangeas in our garden as well but we don’t have the panicle variety. They looked gorgeous! Looks like they’re going to look like shaved ice desserts drizzled with strawberry sauce when they turned pink during fall.🥰🍧
Tracy, I love the update on these two hydrangeas. Have you created a standard out of the Quick Fire Fab hydrangea? Please show us if/when you do that. I hope you and your family are having a wonderful summer so far. ~Margie💕🦋🐝
Hi Margie, You read my mind…😁…I’m waiting for the stems on my QFF to grow taller to turn it into a standard. Hopefully the longer stems will come next spring. 🤞🤞🤞 Have a wonderful week Margie! 💚🙏💚
Hi Tracy. I planted my Limelight Prime last year and it stayed quite small and not a huge amount of growth. It looked a little lost. This year it’s 4’ high x 3’ wide. It’s a little lopsided as I did not want to prune it much. Next spring I will even it out. It is blooming but I don’t have a Limelight to compare it to. To me, the flowers seem pretty green although some of the earlier ones are starting to go white. It’s situated on the south side with full sun all day and looks great against the red brick of my house.
Hi Susan, I was thinking of the Limelight Prime (LLP) as an improved version of Limelight so I started saying “6-8 ft”…then realize that it is actually 4-6 ft tall. It seems like the LLP will be similar in size to the Little Lime which is about 3-5 ft tall. The panicles on the LLP are somewhat more “green” than some of the other panicle hydrangeas but side by side next to the original Limelight…I think the Limelight panicles are definitely more green. I hope the panicles will be less floppy compared to my Limelight…🤞🤞🤞
I am drawn to your channel because the first hydrangeas I purchased were limelight prime and quick fire fab, planted in containers. What are the odds? It's great to see what's in store for my plants this season. Thank you!
Oh no….we are lucky being next to US so we get plants at the same time as everyone in the US. 💚🙏💚. Hopefully the new varieties will be coming to the UK soon. 🤞🤞🤞
I’m sorry to hear that…perhaps you can try a Fire Light Tidbit that is supposed to bloom later for us in cooler climate but may be more suitable for the warmer climate. Blooming later means you can have the plant bloom in the latter part of summer when the days are shorter and the blooms can stay fresh longer and not get burned by the longer days. Also, planting hydrangeas in a location that gets only morning sun and afternoon shade would be most suitable…also slow and deep watering to keep the plants well soaked. I have seen hydrangeas planted in the places that have similar climates as Texas.
I feed my hydrangeas with coffee ground in the fall and spring like you said and so far fed them twice now, last fall and this spring. My hydrangea leaves are turning pale yellow and appear unhealthy. Their stems are showing with less bushy though they are flowering at the moment in my zone 4B. Anything I should do now to make them look more healthy?
Hi there, I’m sorry to hear about this. Are you on IG? You can send me a photo and I may be able to help you try to figure out why the leaves are yellowing? A few yellowing of leaves near the inside or bottom of the bush is okay but complete yellowing of the leaves is not good. There could be a possible number of reasons and I don’t think used coffee grounds is one of them….unless you applied too much? I usually just give each plant a half to 1 cup of coffee grounds (or compost) per plant (depending on size). I always recommend “less is more”. If the plant is blooming then it is doing okay…so I think the yellowing could be do to “overwatering”? Check your soil…especially in zone 4 where your sunlight is not as intense…you may not have to water so much. In our zone 5, I water my garden twice a week even during the heat wave we have been getting. The only thing I do more is water longer (for deep watering). If you are not sure how much to water your plants, you can check the soil…only water if the top 4” of soil is dry. Again, these are only guesses so hopefully they are helpful. Hope your plants get better. 🤞
Hi Leslie, Good question…perhaps we need the Hydrangea scientist/society or English major to help us in this department? 😁 I have always thought of it as a noun - “lacecap” = lacy panicles….whereas “lace” cap = lacy mophead blooms??? I just checked on PW’s website and I think they did use “lacecap panicles” in the description of the Quick Fire panicles. Lol…I’m not an English major and always struggle in this department so I can never be sure when it comes to the English language. Ps. Give me a question on the Nomenclature of Inorganic or Organic compound and how it is “named” or “called” and I could easily explain.
Hi Maggie, Hydrangeas are not heavy feeders like roses and they don’t need fertilizers…they get a handful of compost in the spring (and sometimes fall). Every 3 years I add about 2” of compost on top and apply 2-3” of mulch every spring. I deep water my garden 2-3 times a week.
Yes, that works too! So just a cup or so as dress up around the root ball of each hydrangea in spring. I sometimes do this the fall as well but it’s not necessary.
@@TracysHomeGarden I have 2 original Limelight’s and they are beautiful- but by next year will be too large for their current location. I watched a previous video you posted about replanting. These will be my first replant so fingers crossed they will come back strong next spring.
Hi Andrea, If they are mature plants than you should replant in late fall or later winter (just as the ground becomes workable). I prefer late winter as the plant can be pruned back to a more manageable size and the cooler temps promote better root growth to prepare the plant for summer. All the best! 💚💚💚
Such beautiful hydrangeas, Tracy. Love your garden .
So fun to have this mini update Tracy! I love the Quick Fire standard so much, the lace cap is great for pollinators! I have 2 Quick Fire Fabs and like you I love those too! I'm looking to get 2 more to create a hedge near our front yard gate for both privacy and a nice welcome. The Limelight Prime is looking good! I have a Little Lime and I think the colors of it are just perfect. Isn't it great that Proven Winners gives us so many varieties to choose from? Something for everyone!!
Oh yes, I agree ☝️…there is so much work behind breeding and selection plants…and all the people at PW are doing a fantastic job at it. All the recent introductions are so great and like you said…there is something for everyone…and I love them all. Just too bad I don’t have enough space to plant every variety.
My Quick Fire is a pollinator magnet 🧲…and I’m so glad for that. 💚💚💚
Oh…I’m trying to imagine a hedge of the Quick Fire Fab…😍😍😍
Happy gardening!
Always great to see you, Tracy! Hope you continue to prosper and bloom like your hydrangeas.
Beautiful! I love how you compared the different varieties.
Great update. I’m looking forward to seeing the colours in the fall
Love your videos. They are so inspiring! I really look forward to them! Even mundane tasks like fertilizing is so helpful!
Thank you Catherine! 💚💚💚
Ps. You want to see a video of me doing mundane tasks?! 😁☺️
@@TracysHomeGarden yes! Your voice is so calming. I have a very stressful job and listening to your videos at night really helps me relax! I’m also a gardener in my spare time. I think I now have 12 varieties of hydrangea thanks to your videos!
Thank you Catherine 💚🙏💚. Gardening does the same to me too!
Hi Tracy! Great description and showcase of these 2 beautiful hydrangeas. Thanks for sharing 👍
Your hydrangea collection is beautiful!
I can't wait to plant some Quick Fire Fab's next spring! So pretty
QFF is also the earliest to bloom for me this year so it’s a definitely one of my most fav now! You won’t be disappointed 💚
Hi Tracey, and thank U so much for sharing your information about these new hydrangeas! I luv the full panicle hydrangeas. I have an old fashioned pee-wee hydrangea and she performs beautifully for me each year and turns a deep pink color in fall!!! I have a lime light I purchased in 2020, and it was small and I only had i flower. This year it must be 4x4 and is covered in buds that are starting to open!!! I live in the US zone 4b. My hydrangeas are doing well and I’m very grateful for finding your channel! I have learned so much from you and I will be saving my petunia seeds this year!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful gardens and tips with us!!! Love it all❣️😊👍🏻
Thank you Brenda! I’m so glad you also like hydrangeas as I do…the Limelight will definitely be growing more in the next few years and eventually reach 6-8 ft tall and wide (even in zone 4b climate…although it may take a little longer in the cooler climate because of the shorter growing season).
I think growing annuals from seeds we collect in our garden is so much fun as what we get will be very different than the original plant. I have 5 different color blooms from seeds collected on one of my petunia plant last year. And…6-8 different colors of blooms from seeds collected from 3 of my calibrachoa plants.
It also saves $$ as well. Happy gardening Brenda!
Hello Tracy! I love watching your interesting videos. Hydrangeas are beautiful! You know how to inspire. I wish you a good day 💐❤️🌻
You have done a great job with your garden, really enjoy the videos, your a great gardner
Thanks so much Juanita!
Hello Tracy! Your garden is beautiful as usual! I love the colours of your hydrangeas and I can’t wait to see them when they’ve change their colours later on. We have some hydrangeas in our garden as well but we don’t have the panicle variety. They looked gorgeous! Looks like they’re going to look like shaved ice desserts drizzled with strawberry sauce when they turned pink during fall.🥰🍧
Very nice dear freind keep connected
Tracy, I love the update on these two hydrangeas. Have you created a standard out of the Quick Fire Fab hydrangea? Please show us if/when you do that. I hope you and your family are having a wonderful summer so far. ~Margie💕🦋🐝
Hi Margie,
You read my mind…😁…I’m waiting for the stems on my QFF to grow taller to turn it into a standard. Hopefully the longer stems will come next spring. 🤞🤞🤞 Have a wonderful week Margie! 💚🙏💚
Hi Tracy. I planted my Limelight Prime last year and it stayed quite small and not a huge amount of growth. It looked a little lost. This year it’s 4’ high x 3’ wide. It’s a little lopsided as I did not want to prune it much. Next spring I will even it out. It is blooming but I don’t have a Limelight to compare it to. To me, the flowers seem pretty green although some of the earlier ones are starting to go white. It’s situated on the south side with full sun all day and looks great against the red brick of my house.
Hi Susan,
I was thinking of the Limelight Prime (LLP) as an improved version of Limelight so I started saying “6-8 ft”…then realize that it is actually 4-6 ft tall. It seems like the LLP will be similar in size to the Little Lime which is about 3-5 ft tall. The panicles on the LLP are somewhat more “green” than some of the other panicle hydrangeas but side by side next to the original Limelight…I think the Limelight panicles are definitely more green.
I hope the panicles will be less floppy compared to my Limelight…🤞🤞🤞
Love it!
I am drawn to your channel because the first hydrangeas I purchased were limelight prime and quick fire fab, planted in containers. What are the odds? It's great to see what's in store for my plants this season. Thank you!
That’s great! You’ll definitely love them! Happy gardening! 💚🙏💚
They are looking absolutely gorgeous Tracy 💕 I’m off to look for a Limelight Prime 🌸💕🌸
I think you will not be disappointed Jasmine. 💚🙏💚
@@TracysHomeGarden I cannot find it anywhere only in the USA 😌 I will have to wait a little longer 😊
Oh no….we are lucky being next to US so we get plants at the same time as everyone in the US. 💚🙏💚. Hopefully the new varieties will be coming to the UK soon. 🤞🤞🤞
@@TracysHomeGarden Eventually 😁😁
Tracy in your backyard , how deep is your planting bed along your fence? Always beautiful! Thank you!
Hi Melanie,
It is 5ft but I think you need a minimum of 6 ft for proper spacing. 💚💚💚
I killed so many hydrangea, Texas weather is definitely a no no for hydrangea so sad. You have a beautiful garden.
I’m sorry to hear that…perhaps you can try a Fire Light Tidbit that is supposed to bloom later for us in cooler climate but may be more suitable for the warmer climate. Blooming later means you can have the plant bloom in the latter part of summer when the days are shorter and the blooms can stay fresh longer and not get burned by the longer days. Also, planting hydrangeas in a location that gets only morning sun and afternoon shade would be most suitable…also slow and deep watering to keep the plants well soaked. I have seen hydrangeas planted in the places that have similar climates as Texas.
Your hydragenias are gorgeous 😍
Hello Tracy 💕💕💕
I feed my hydrangeas with coffee ground in the fall and spring like you said and so far fed them twice now, last fall and this spring. My hydrangea leaves are turning pale yellow and appear unhealthy. Their stems are showing with less bushy though they are flowering at the moment in my zone 4B. Anything I should do now to make them look more healthy?
Hi there,
I’m sorry to hear about this. Are you on IG? You can send me a photo and I may be able to help you try to figure out why the leaves are yellowing?
A few yellowing of leaves near the inside or bottom of the bush is okay but complete yellowing of the leaves is not good.
There could be a possible number of reasons and I don’t think used coffee grounds is one of them….unless you applied too much? I usually just give each plant a half to 1 cup of coffee grounds (or compost) per plant (depending on size). I always recommend “less is more”.
If the plant is blooming then it is doing okay…so I think the yellowing could be do to “overwatering”? Check your soil…especially in zone 4 where your sunlight is not as intense…you may not have to water so much. In our zone 5, I water my garden twice a week even during the heat wave we have been getting. The only thing I do more is water longer (for deep watering).
If you are not sure how much to water your plants, you can check the soil…only water if the top 4” of soil is dry.
Again, these are only guesses so hopefully they are helpful. Hope your plants get better. 🤞
Good morning. Did your Quick Fire Fab bloom earlier than your Quick Fire? Thanks!
The Quick Fire Fab definitely bloomed first this year for me! 💚💚💚
🌸N🌳CE‼️🌸
Tracy, can a hydrangea be a panicle and lace cap? The quick fire tree looks like a lace cap.
Hi Leslie,
Good question…perhaps we need the Hydrangea scientist/society or English major to help us in this department? 😁
I have always thought of it as a noun - “lacecap” = lacy panicles….whereas “lace” cap = lacy mophead blooms???
I just checked on PW’s website and I think they did use “lacecap panicles” in the description of the Quick Fire panicles. Lol…I’m not an English major and always struggle in this department so I can never be sure when it comes to the English language.
Ps. Give me a question on the Nomenclature of Inorganic or Organic compound and how it is “named” or “called” and I could easily explain.
Do you move your potted limelight’s into the garage in the winter?
The potted panicle hydrangeas will stay outside. I hover all my hydrangeas in pots right next to my southwest wall of the house.
Tracy, can you advise how your panicles are so big and beautiful? Do you apply a lot of fertilizers, and water a lot?
Hi Maggie,
Hydrangeas are not heavy feeders like roses and they don’t need fertilizers…they get a handful of compost in the spring (and sometimes fall). Every 3 years I add about 2” of compost on top and apply 2-3” of mulch every spring.
I deep water my garden 2-3 times a week.
@@TracysHomeGarden thankd
Tracy, is cow or sheep compost good compost, that is what is sold in most garden centres
Yes, that works too! So just a cup or so as dress up around the root ball of each hydrangea in spring. I sometimes do this the fall as well but it’s not necessary.
@@TracysHomeGarden thanks a lot!
Did you order these straight from PW? Or locally?
I got them for a local garden nursery.
The Prime has a height of 6 ft. Will you be able to keep it trimmed shorter, or do you have a place you can plant it that will hold it when it’s 6ft?
I’m planning to make it into tree form to replace my Limelight trees in the back garden.
@@TracysHomeGarden I have 2 original Limelight’s and they are beautiful- but by next year will be too large for their current location. I watched a previous video you posted about replanting. These will be my first replant so fingers crossed they will come back strong next spring.
Hi Andrea,
If they are mature plants than you should replant in late fall or later winter (just as the ground becomes workable). I prefer late winter as the plant can be pruned back to a more manageable size and the cooler temps promote better root growth to prepare the plant for summer. All the best! 💚💚💚
It looks like you have pollinator plants. Please display your bees.
Yes, I do love the pollinators…at the time of filming, they were all over my Quick Fire tree…💚💚💚