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Hydrangea flowers ( so many)!!!!!!!!

JohnnypJohnnyp Posts: 71
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Hi all,  long time since I have posted or asked for any advice on here  but would just like to know if anyone else has lots  of flowering heads on their hydrangeas this year ? I have never seen so many flowers on my plants as I've seen this season on both the pot grown ones and the ones grown in the borders.
I live up in the North East of Scotland where its always   a few degree's cooler all year round and we  get some late frosts up here also which can have an effect on the early growth of the hydrangeas but this year the heads are so numerous it's unreal , any ideas what the difference could be than other years where some plants struggle to have one flowering head ?Thanks john

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Johnnyp yp Am I right in thinking you have had a very mild winter? Maybe that could be why.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Are they mopheads and lace cap varieties?  They flower on last season's wood so any heavy frosts kill off the flower buds and sometimes the whole stem.   In my last garden - central Belgium - I never got flowers on these plants so I turfed them out and grew paniculatas which flower on new season's wood.
    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
    Ours are only just producing flower heads in the SW of Uk. Very late
  • JohnnypJohnnyp Posts: 71
    Suze hi yes our winter up here was milder than usual and not the hard frosts we can have ,might start putting flees over stone of the border plants for protection. 

    Obelix  The late frosts are terrible for that and wonder if that's why there's so many flower this season as there was hardly any frost through the whole winter .
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @Johnnyp For good displays in future you either need to fleece or otherwise protect your plants from winter frosts or else switch to the paniculata forms.
    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
  • JohnnypJohnnyp Posts: 71
    Many thanks all going to try the fleece this winter and see what the results are  :)
  • JohnnypJohnnyp Posts: 71
    Oh and will get a few cuttings from mother in law of the paniculats she has and give them a go  :)
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited July 2022
    @johnnyp Good Luck with your Paniculatas beautiful with Actaea simplex Brunette
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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