In the last video in my series on How to Prune Tree Hydrangeas I show you the results of our effort. A tree hydrandgea full of flowers.
This winter I hope you will get out and try pruning your tree hydrangea. I know you can do it!
By John Holden
How to Prune a Tree Hydrangea – Part 3
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4 responses to “How to Prune a Tree Hydrangea – Part 3”
The three part videos were very helpful. I have 2 limelight bushes and 1 PeeGee tree that are going to be 3 years old. They are in need of pruning and now I feel I can confidently prune after watching your videos. I really appreciate seeing the new growth videos so I know what to expect.
Thank you Ann. I show the after shots because I remember the first times I pruned and not knowing what was going to happen was scary.
I’m a new gardener and your video was so helpful. I have lived at my house for a few years and the women that lived here before me had a green thumb. I’m still learning. She planted two lime lights next to each other and trained them like trees. I didn’t know what I was doing and only cut off the blooms in the fall. Now it is the end of a rainy July in Kentucky and my blooms are heavy and on the ground. I’m afraid to leave it for fear the branches will snap. However, I think it is too early to cut everything back. What should I do to save my hydrangea? I would hate to lose it.
Floppy flowers are a part of life with a happy PG Hydrangea. You’ll usually have some flower branches break and there isn’t much you can do about it. If you cut the broken limbs cleanly they will heal over for you.
If the flowers are so heavy that you fear losing a branch it’s ok to thin the heavy flowers and put them on the kitchen table or dry them.