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Hi, enjoyed your write up. some food for thought on future writings...
I'm in a seed exchange here on DG now and several of us were wondering about hydrangea seeds.
We notice that although there are seeds, you never find baby hydrangea plants popping up around the parent plant. Is this an indication that the seeds could and should not be Winter Sowed?
I was able to harvest very small seeds from my hydrangea macrophylla ‘blue billow’, mountain hydrangea and we are wondering a few things
1) just what do the seeds really look like? they are hard to identify
2) if the plant won't come true from seed...what would you get? a similar but not exact lacecap? no germination?
Paul, very good information, well presented. I am trying to grow mine in containers, alas I have no choice. Any tips in that direction would be most appreciated.
Paul, very few... I use a time release fert every three or so months, and about every two weeks I give them a bit of the mix with water type - Schultz, Peters, MG...whatever the store had last time I was in...not much to choose from. I've found that a lot of the fancier foods aren't really worth the shipping costs.
Nice article - I have a couple of Nikko Blue hydrangeas on the northeast side of the house. They seem to love it - I'm getting lots of rooted branches, as well.
I'm looking forward to your article on pruning. I believe that these are mature plants (from long before I moved in) and I'm thinking that I'll need to do a hard pruning to clean them up, knowing that I'll miss a year of blossoms. Then I can prune leaving some deadwood in subsequent years. Would love to have you address optimum shape and size of the plants in your article.
Also would love an article on some of your favorites and any new introductions you've heard about. My property is perfect for them (acid soil and part sun/part shade on any given day in most locations) and I'd love to introduce some new specimens.
