How and When to Prune a Hydrangea
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Pruning Hydrangeas is essential in allowing it to keep producing those large balls of flowers. Hydrangeas should be pruned and cut back from late February to early March when it starts to show new growth. The old Hydrangea seed heads should then be cut back, along with any dead or crossing stems. A percentage of old growth should also be cut back as well.
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Thanks for this video. I did the exact same thing this week and just thought “I should probably watch someone do this to make sure I’m doing it right”
This is the best Hydrangea pruning video I've found on TH-cam, very clear and concise. Thank you very much!
Glad it helped 🙂
The 🦌🦌🦌prune mine whenever they please. They’re turned my gardens into smorgasbord and no trick to keep them away works for long. It drives me nutty.
Many will find this useful because it’s coming up to the exact time to do it. Very professionally explained and useful information
Thank you
Great video 👍 I've got a beautiful white one thickening out now & it gets cut every year in late September & I take it back really small & the thickening & blooming does really well.
Great explanation Adam perfect for any newbies to the gardening world
Enjoy the rest of your weekend mate 💪🏼
Thanks, you too!
Well explained 👍I went on a general horticulture course when I started in the game & we were taught the 3 Ds of pruning.dead diseased & damaged I added a 4th dangerous 👍
Dangerous, a good one 👌
I was taught that St George's day is the ideal time to prune mopheads. We can still get some very cold nights in February and March, they need the old flower head to protect the buds.
Definitely yeah and that's pretty much what I advised the customer but in all fairness, it comes back every year lovely. I'd prefer to cut late in the year similar to yourself
Excellent advice! Love the channel ✅
Appreciate it! 🙂
I usually leave the heads on until I think the last frost has passed only because the heads protect the hollow stems. The density and hollowness of the wood on hydrangea is quite vulnerable to the frost and can die off from the inside out. Other than that looks good 👍🏽
I normally prefer to do that but always do this one for this customer early as she likes it done. I'd rather wait 🤷♂️
@@TheGreyGardener1990 I know, over the years I’ve cut them down early and I’m yet to see one die to be honest 🤣
@@maintainyourgarden yeah they're pretty hardy things. But as you say, probably better waiting. I seem to remember I few years back we had a really wet April or May and that seemed to effect them more and a few of mine didn't flower
Good advice mate, thanks for the video
No problem 👍
In my garden I prune them after they flower....never known a hydrangea to die.....winters have changed
..alot of the old books don't correlate to today's climate...however for customers i always give them the option during winter...alot of.customers think they look untidy so want them doing pre Christmas
Great little video mate 👍
Thanks 👍
Bit early for me ..any frost and snow will knock back those new flowering buds .I would thin out some of the old stems from the base to open up the middle and create better light and air flow and give it a mulch and feed after 😉
Cheers Andrea, as I say I normally do wait but she always likes it doing early. I did thin out the base but you're maybe right, I could have taken a bit more out due to it being a bigger bush. Thanks for the tip 👍
Great explanation.
Cheers
Very good 👍
Thank you 👍
I've found over the years it's faster to use the mower 😉🤠🍻
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Snow & Frost may be a issue with that growth now. Possibly 3 weeks too early for me
I agree Ricky. I always do it early with this one as I say in the video and never had an issue, always flowered etc but yes I wait a bit longer for my other customers
1 tip. Safety glasses are a good idea. Easy to get poked while pruning
The heads protect the stem and buds.
I know, as I say I'd have waited a bit but customer wanted it tidied up
What about lace caps? Prune those in fall/winter, no blooms in spring/summer.
As soon as the last frosts are over
It is March 12th in Northeastern Ohio; the Farmer's Almanac states that this is the best time to prune; it will be 60 degrees today, however, in this area I have known it to snow in April...should I wait?
Its always a risk no matter when you prune really. There's always some freak weather spell. It's upto you, if you're happy to wait as long as possible then do that, otherwise you'll probably be ok
@@TheGreyGardener1990 , thank you; actually I looked and as yet I do not see any signs of green growth, such as on your plant; so, at minimum I think I should wait until I see a sprout or two, right? Love this video!
@@elogiud yeah definately wait until there's some growth 👍
@@TheGreyGardener1990 Oh, good to know; thank you again.
Could I do this in May and still get flowers this year? I live in England.
If you just take off last year's flowers you should be ok
@@TheGreyGardener1990 Thank you, for your response. I'll get started this morning. I'll update you on its progress.
@@ceekay2008100 just don't cut into it as you'll take this years flowers off more than likely. Just dead head last tears brown flowers
I have hydrangea Zorro and I pruned it at the late winter actually this was not a pruning but killing :( This was my first hydrangea, I've cut everything down to the bottom leaving maybe 3 inches of the old wood :( This year I have many new shoots but there will be no bloom for sure. Can you advise what to do this year to get the flowers in fallowing year? Because some people are advising to prune in late summer when the heads become dead and some advice to prune at the late winter so Feb - March. Many thanks for the video!
I would prune as normal in feb/March time depending on the weather.
@@TheGreyGardener1990 Thanks!
Why an angled cut?
So the water runs off and doesn't sit on the fresh cut
@@TheGreyGardener1990 But the branches are growing at an angle so the cuts you make will already be at an angle.
You could quite easily cut them flat even though branches are growing at an angle. Just got to make sure they're angled that's all
Can't hear him. Volume too low in his end.
It was really windy so I had to try to edit it out. Bit difficult