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Am I clutching at straws?

SonnieBSonnieB Posts: 124
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Hello all.  Once again I need your expert help.  Attached is a sorry picture of my hydrangea.  There is some thing growing,  but I don't know if its part of the plant or just something else.  



I can't see any new growth from the cut back branches, unfortunately.   Any thoughts?
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    The new growth, is not Hydrangea.
    It looks pretty dead to me, sorry.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    the green is something else


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • SonnieBSonnieB Posts: 124
    I figured so, but was still hoping .  Thanks for your help as always.  I'll keep an eye on the green and see what happens 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    They are heavy drinkers so need a lot of watering, potentially daily in the summer, esp in a smallish pot.
  • SonnieBSonnieB Posts: 124
    I must admit I didn't look after it as well as I should.  It's a shame I got it from the bargain bin and it did ok until the winter came.
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    Don't give up on it yet mine is only just bearing green shoots 
  • SonnieBSonnieB Posts: 124
    I will see Mary370, you never know  :)
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    SonnieB, why has the hydrangea been cut hard back?
    SW Scotland
  • SonnieBSonnieB Posts: 124
    I read somewhere that your supposed to do.  Should i have not done that 
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    edited April 2018
    SonnieB, Mophead and lacecap hydrangeas flower on the previous year's growth. Leave dead flower heads on until late March/.April then cut back to healthy leaf buds.
    Hopefully you will see new green leaves, appearing from the bottom, soon but you wont get flowers this year.
    SW Scotland
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