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Hydrangea

katrinkempkatrinkemp Posts: 81
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My Hydrangea looks like she is done for this year. Or was the recent heat wave to much? How do i prune to give her a good start next year or is there? 

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If you prune it, you will remove next year's flower buds.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Water it thoroughly.  10 litres at a time poured slowly so it soaks in.  Repeat every 2 or 3 days till you get some decent rain that soaks a long way down and then, this autumn when it's properly wetted, give it a good mulch of well-rotted manure.

    You could carefully nip off the tatty flower heads but they do provide some frost protection to next year's flower buds which are already forming just behind them.   The dried up heads will also look good when frosted.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    We never cut off the old flower heads as this adds to the winter part of the garden.
    We don't prune back and the plants always come back.
    We don't water or feed but then we are in the SW where we get more rain......normally
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