Success With Hydrangeas Blog

Right about now, you are probably cutting hydrangea flowers for bouquets. Except that your beautiful flowers droop in the vase within a few hours of being cut. ARGHH@!! So what’s a hydrangea-lover to do? Let me share what I learned a while back about hydrangeas as cut flowers.

Pruning and fertilizing hydrangeas mid-season is something you should consider. In my part of the U.S. this is my final seasonal opportunity to give my hydrangeas their last cuts and food for this year. Maybe for you too.

Have you found any Japanese Beetles on your hydrangeas yet? I have and I am not surprised. If you follow the Growing Degree Day (GDD) science, you know that these pests appear anywhere from 950-2150 GDDs. For those of you who aren’t familiar with GDDs, here’s a good site/link for you from University of Maryland…

Just a quick note to remind you about tomorrow’s LIVE HYDRANGEA TALK at White Flower Farm.   We have decided to move the discussion indoors in view of the weather forecast.

Big leaf hydrangeas (macrophyllas) had a hard time this past winter in the northeast U.S. and elsewhere. The big question is: will your big leaf hydrangeas bloom this summer before the first frost of autumn knocks them back?

Now that our gardening season is finally underway, it’s time to talk about hydrangea insects, what they are and what to do.

It’s officially spring and time to pay attention to your hydrangeas. Hydrangea care in the early spring garden ranges from doing nothing to severe cutbacks.

Thinking about hydrangea pruning in late winter? I know we all get itchy fingers right about now, but take a deep breath and step back.

Through the generosity of the Chappaqua Garden Club (NY) and the Chappaqua Library, there will be a free Author Talk on hydrangeas.

After a very cold November and December, we are into a January thaw. Even with the mild weather I know it’s too soon to do any serious gardening. But the pull to be outside is irresistible. So let’s talk about what to do in the winter garden.