As a New Englander who only has macrophylla hydrangeas this trimming made my heart race! I keep saying I’ll plant some panicle hydrangeas but haven’t yet. Thanks for all the great info.
I've seen photos from some of the New England hydrangea festivals... AMAZING! I wish they grew more reliably here. Alas, we can still savor our panicle varieties :)
Well that was pretty stunning! Great video taking the fear out of the trimming. I just cut the blooms off my panicles due to snow load this week, and do the 1/3 trimming in spring. Seems to work. Thanks Corey, no fear! 🇨🇦👏🍁
My son trims his Bobo similar to that and gets a rounded shrub that looks like it’s all flowers, but they’re probably half the size of the flowers on my Bobo and the leaves are also smaller. I’m a bit more aggressive and finish up by also taking out all the tiny branches. Still a lot of blooms and they’re huge, but the leaves are also larger. It’s interesting how different our shrubs look just by our pruning methods.
First year with Let's Dance Can Do mountain hydrangeas. Never had hydrangeas before so I have two questions: 1) Will they lose all their leaves this fall/winter? I was watering incorrectly at the beginning and my leaves and flowers were covered in spots from the water. And 2) Do I need to make sure the ground is moist before the first frost hits. We haven't had any significant rain in a while and I've heard other videos of yours saying that the ground needs to be damp before winter. Thank you for all the advice and the great videos!
will trimming them create more branching? I just bought some pw off their site and the video advertising them said they are trimmed way back to encourage branching. is this something you would continue to do? Thanks for the great videos. did you ever do the video of the container gardens viewers submitted? I don't know that I missed it but may have. I hope you continue to post content now that the season is pretty much over. I'm already counting the days until spring but your probably looking forward to a bit of a break
From what I have seen, panicle types get bushy as you trim them. Every node you cut at makes two branches starting at the cut. I'm chopping my limelight to the stump because it has about 2+ft of trunk at the bottom where no flowers come, so I am excited for extra stems!
I've had a small white container grown hydrangea for the last 3 years. It was a Mother's Day present in March and was in full bloom. I live in the UK. Each year its in full bloom from March to now October. It's sending out a new flower heads now. Therefore it's a very short time It's dormant. From late November to February when it starts budding again. Therefore I'm at a loss as to when to prune it. I've been guessing and would cut off the flower heads once they'd died as once started flowering in March they'd just keep flowering until winter or very bad weather. I do move it into an open porch during winter. Please what should I do and when????
If it's been blooming year after year, you're doing something right, so stay the course. It seems happy under your care. I'm guessing it might be a macrophylla variety (those are popular for Mother's Day)... on that kind, you usually only remove any dead branches or flowers. If it eventually starts to look sluggish, it might need fertilizing or repotting.
I like to wait until the leaves have lost their color. Doing it now probably won’t hurt anything, but if you trim too early, they could start to reshoot stems.
Do you mean old fashioned snowball bushes that bloom in early spring? Those are a type of viburnum. Those can get trimmed right after flowering. If you trim that now, you’ll be sacrificing next seasons blooms.
It's a hard habit to break. RU-vid has a feature in the settings that allow you to slow things down -- unless I can retrain my mouth, that might help :)
