Hi Tracy, always so lovely seeing your hydrangeas. I wanna buy quick fire fab as well. In the first year, your quick fire fab already reach 1 meter? And what is the space from quick fire fab to other plants? Thank you.
I planted so that it gets about 4ft around the base. According to PW, it spreads 5-6 ft and 6-8 ft tall. It is a fairly new plant so the size is still an estimate. I expect it to be similar size as the original Quick Fire that I have which is about 4ft wide and 5.7ft tall.
Honestly every times I see one of your videos I fall in love with every single hydrangeas that you have… Tracy I have just bought a quick fire fab today absolutely love yours ,I was wondering if you think it’s ok to transplant it in the garden or shoul I wait until spring and leave it in the pot..or if if I decide to plant it in a large huge pot will it survive..I live in St. Catharines,Ontario.please advise..
Hi Maxine, you can plant it in ground now. As our weather is cooling down…now will be perfect timing for the plant to get established and bloom next year. Happy gardening! 💚 Ps. Quick Fire Fab is a true winner hydrangea and you will love it 😍 Maxine!
The QFF is now around 2x2 ft tall and wide. It is planted in an area that gets 3-5 ft snow pile that we dump on it during our winter so it gets a lot of broken stems and dieback….thus, its size may not get very big until 3+ years. You will definitely be loving the hedge of QFF. Great choice!
Honestly after seeing your videos, I’ve come to love even more hydrangea’s! So I decided to get one of each for my garden well all of the panicle hydrangea’s of course. Even the new one! The puffer fish panicle hydrangea. Can’t wait to see the blooms!
Thank you Tracy! Very informative video and look forward to seeing how the quick fire fab hydrangeas continue to change colors as the summer season turns into fall. 😊🦋🌸
These are just gorgeous Tracy. So I've been binge watching you for a few week's now and I've always loved hydrangea's. I have 4 reg hydrangea's that turn a gorgeous deep purple. You have me hooked on the panicle's. I went to Lowe's and only found 3 Monrovia Fire and Ice. Also 5 Pandora. They were fryed and on clearance so I got them hoping to save them but not what I really wanted. I took all the dead dried leaves off and only today after 2 weeks took the fryed spent flowers off. My husband wanted me to leave all the fryed stuff on thinking it was better for them but they have all new green lavish green leaves coming back on all of them. I know they won't get the blooms again but saving them from the garbage was my goal. Went to my Local nursery next day and bought 2 PW Limelights and 1 PW Quick Fire. $45 a piece and of course my hubby wasn't happy but he loves to make me happy. They are already quite large at 3 feet and full of lucious blooms. I live in zone 8b here in the PNW and its been in the mid 90s to mid 80s so I've kept them in the shade. I really wanted some Pinky Winkys but they were all sold. Well I went to Costco this weekend without hubby and I was in shock to see PW panicle hydrangea's. I bought 2 more Quick Fire, 1 Little Quick Fire, 3 BoBo's, 1 Little Lime Punch, and 2 Little Lime. They weren't in 3 gallons like the first 3 I bought the week before but 2 gallon and only $18 a piece. They are gorgeous very healthy about 2+ ft with lucious blooms. I'm in sheer heaven right now. I wish I had bought a few more Little lime punch and Little lime at least one more of each. I like things in 3s not 2s but I was overwhelmed to say the least. I put them all under my patio under the shade as well. I'm going to wait until September when it cools down to plant them. I don't want them to die with the heat although it says they love heat/sun. Sorry such a long rant. My question really is did you make the standard Quick Fire tree yourself? I'd really like to make one or two I have into a Tree form. Also all of these PW I've mentioned have tons of lucious blooms but the Limelights and Quick Fires haven't all fully bloomed out yet. Meaning some still have the little beaded part that hasn't bloomed out. Is that normal for this time of year? The BoBos look like they have all bloomed. Thank you for the inspiration I can't wait for next Summer already. Now I really have to plan out where the best spot for all of these beautys to go. I want a hedge in my back fence line between my neighbor and I so 5 of the larger ones are going there. Thanks again Tracy your garden is gorgeous.😊
If you binge farther back - maybe last year, you will see that Tracy has made many standard Hydrangea trees herself and she show you how! Good luck with your large collection of Hydrangeas.
your hydrangea's look perfect, I just recently started to get into using wood and bone ash as fertilizer. I'm hoping that will make my plants look healthier.
Thank for sharing such great information! I have a Quick Fire Tree I planted last year and it’s going fabulous! I’m going to have to get a QF Fab now 😍💫
I planted a Quickfire Fab & a Limelight Prime this year. So far, I’m extremely happy with both. I have the Quickfire Fab planted close to my Little Quickfire and they are pinking up nicely.
Tracy, is your Quick Fire' Hydrangea on Standard a grafted tree, or did you create it on its own roots? The reason I'm asking is that I was recently told by a nursery owner that standard hydrangeas are grafted. Maybe I was told that because I mentioned that I wanted to create a standard using a cutting or side shoot from a hydrangea. I'm still going to try doing that, but I would love your input (and any of your viewers' input, as well). I hope you are enjoying this week in your beautiful gardens! ~Margie😊💚🦋
I used to have a Paniculata Grandiflora (PG) on standard bought at a nursery and it was NOT grafted. I’d say the nursery owner did not know or was giving you the run around. Tracy creates her own standards. Look back last year cideos and she shows how she does it.
@@SusanMiddleton1 Yes, I know she does, but I was wondering if the ones in her front flower beds were created by her or if they came from a nursery. I suspect that the nursery doesn't want me to try to create my own since I purchase quite a lot from them.
Hi Margie, The Quick Fire tree is only one I did not train. However, I can assure you it is not grafted as during the first year I had a stem that grew out of one of the lower nodes below the canopy and it bloomed with the same panicle of that on the canopy. I think the nursery owner may have answered it...well...half correct? Macrophylla hydrangea patio trees are grafted....and rose trees as well. Macrophylla hydrangea trees don't form woody trunks so one would need to graft them. Roses don't do well in our cold climate so they would be grafted. But panicle hydrangeas...well I don't see the benefit of grafting...but who knows, I could be wrong? Have a great week Margie!
@@TracysHomeGarden Thank you, I had been looking for a panicle hydrangea that will be a good candidate to create a standard, and with your encouragement, I will continue searching until I find one!💚
I was looking to see if I could train my Lavalamp today and only see large stubby stems at the base…I don’t see a nice long branch to do that. Hopefully I will figure something out next spring as I too would like to make a Lavalamp standard for a container. 💚💚💚
I feel like it’s a bit odd to have called this new hydrangea a quickfire just because it’s a completely different flower altogether. Still pretty though.
I love your hydrangea, they are so gorgeous, I am in Zone 9, most hydrangea will not survive here, I wish I could plant them here, they are my dream flower, thanks for sharing Tracy.
You can plant limelight. The proven winners website says it’s more heat tolerant than the other varieties and will do well in zone 9. I’d suggest putting it in an area of dappled light and water really well in summer
Very beautiful hydrangeas Tracy! I was wondering, do you have any problems with bunnies or squirrels attacking your hydrangeas? We have a rabbit problem here in Calgary and I want to try to plant some hydrangeas in my front yard. Any suggestions? Thank you!
I have a bunny issue here in Winnipeg. I spray with Bobbex and it really helps. In the winter I put plastic rose collars around them so the rabbits don’t munch on them n the winter. It also protects them from heavy snows. I got mine at Canadian Tire.
@@elizayuzwa9804 And surrounding them with good old trusty chichenwire (in the winter) works too! Not exactly pretty, but you can't really see it from a distance. Once winter is done, there are too many other delectable things around so they don't bother with shrubs. Rabbits have actually never bothered my hydrangeas, even the smaller ones....the Nanking cherry and baby birch though is a whole other story!
The hybrid hydrangeas are so gorgeous. This was really inspirational. I am trying to learn more about the hydrangeas species. I live in the mid-west and our winters are harsh as well. I may have questions from time to time. Blessings!
Hi Stacy, your quick fire hydrangeas look just gorgeous! However, my quick fire still has not shown any flowers. This is the second season I planted. I had some flowers last year when I first planted. I am in zone 8a. I wonder why I do not have any flower buds, yet. It is located with partial sun and shade. Thank you for any advice. I don't remember if i fertilizers it this Spring. Could that be the reason?
How much sun does it get in its location? They need 6 hrs of sun for best blooming. Also, how wet/dry is the soil about 2” down? I suspect it may not be getting enough sun and/or it needs more water given your hotter climate. Full disclosure, I’m a zone 3/4 but, even with our shorter growing season, I have blooms that are turning pink now.
Are the leaves thick and dark green and very healthy looking? That's a good sign it may have gotten too much nitrogen (fertilizer)? If not our CanGarden friend below may have given you another answer to check out.
Hi Stacy and CanGarden, thank you very much for your reply! Base on your feedback, I think it could be the Sun. I don't think it gets more than a few hours of sun as I was afraid that our hot sun would burn it. My Bobo did not bloom much, either with only one flower in the same location. Their leaves are green and look healthy! I also have them on irrigation. So they should get enough water. That means I need to move them to a new home. When would be the best time to move them. Just want to make sure. You don't think my 90F + degree hot heat will not burn them if I move them to a full sun location? Thanks again, Stacy!
@@tingczhao I think the best location to move it to would be were it gets lots of morning light and some afternoon shade. For me, I prefer to move shrubs in the spring as they are breaking dormancy. Dig the spot first and make sure you get the root ball (I try not to break any roots if popsicle) and plant. I have moved hydrangeas at this time, but I prefer not too. Too much stress on the plant when’re too hot. Just make sure you get the whole root ball and you water it in well.
@@cangarden7833 , thank you so much! Will try to move them either in Oct or early Spring. The only reason I may prefer moving it in the Fall is to expect some bloom next Summer. If I move in the Spring, would I still have a chance to get some bloom next year? Happy Gardening!
This was such a great comparison to see the Quick Fire vs the Quick Fire Fab, Tracy! The coloring of each is so pretty - not sure which is my favorite! 🌸🤍
