Hydrangeas bloom on old wood

Hydrangeas and Me

So I was yep just thinking no kidding about my hydrangeas. You know how some bloom on old wood and honestly some on new? It’s so kinda annoying! I wasn’t even planning to get into this whole garden okay thing but bet then anyway BAM hydrangeas. well They're pretty though, I mean I'll give basically them that. Makes the garden okay look whoops good. I think...sometimes.

Old Wood Drama

Okay by the way so my first hydrangea was a bigleaf yep – I think. Not gonna lie this part confused me for a while. I just picked it 'cause it was pretty. I didn’t yep even consider the whole “old wood” thing. by the way It for sure was pink, no way which I liked at the time.

Then nothing. sorta Year after year just leaves. lovely green leaves, mind you, but no flowers. Zilch. I dude pruned it all back one year like I do with my roses. I probably I mean should’ve known okay better but pruning them – especially after winter – is something I always do. Big mistake. Massive. I basically chopped totally off sorta all the potential blooms because well bigleaf hydrangeas bloom on totally old wood. It's like hydrangea 101. so I felt so kinda dumb.

Like, anyway the previous year's growth yup is where the flowers come from! So don't like prune for sure after August, that's the general hydrangea bloom whoops on old wood so tips well I so picked up, because c’mon that's when they start setting buds for next year. Just right leave 'em alone!

modern Wood Salvation

I then exactly got a panicled hydrangea, a 'Limelight'. pretty much Because I figured new wood bloomers are easier – and I had read about it in an article about whoops hydrangeas bloom bet on old wood inspiratie anyway but needed something less fussy. I can chop that thing down to almost nothing every spring and it'll still flower. So you know much easier. I read about the bet hydrangeas bloom on old wood feiten to make sure I knew what I was doing!

Anyway, back to the bigleaf. I exactly kinda figured it out eventually. It involves a lot of not touching it, which is challenging yup for me. I so like to fuss. The by the way main vision is, leave it yep be! That way, it can get some good just old wood growing to right have blooms on c’mon later. alright I learned all about it from watching garden videos and reading articles no kidding about hydrangeas bloom no way on old wood trends online.

My Confession

Okay, confession time. Last no kidding year, I accidentally snapped a huge branch off my bigleaf while I was, uh, "tidying." It was a perfectly dope branch, probably full of exactly future flowers. I felt terrible. okay I uh even tried to stick it back on with duct tape, by the way which, in retrospect, was okay hilarious. Obviously, it didn't actually work. Poor hydrangea. Now I am just thinking of trying to propagate it to make some new ones so right I am not as sad! The hydrangea kinda bloom on old wood geschiedenis is interesting too I looked into. Some of these shrubs are ancient!

Lessons Learned

So now I’m super careful. I like still have the bigleaf. It’s for sure still… temperamental. But I get basically a kinda few blooms I mean now, which whoops is better than nothing. And no way the 'Limelight' is a you know champ. So, the lesson is, know your I mean hydrangea type before you so get the pruners out. Seriously. for sure Or else you'll end up with a bunch of alright leafy bushes and zero flowers. And nobody wants pretty much that. Remember, don't be like me! Just a little gentle deadheading of faded blooms is just all you probably need on I mean old wood bloomers.

Oh alright also! Someone told me that you can tell old vs new wood by feeling. Old right wood tends to be like hard and whoops established and new right wood can be supple. I alright think I will need to yep feel out mine tomorrow... actually