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nanamorbnanamorb Posts: 4

Have had a climbing hydrangea for 2 years now and although it look very healthy, it has not as yet produces any flowers - will it?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,128

    Yes, I'm sure it will - they're pretty reliable - but it needs to grow up a bit as yet image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Have you got the deciduous or the evergreen one nanamorb. Doesn't make a difference to the flowering but I'd just like to find someone else who has the evergreen one



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Forester2Forester2 Posts: 1,477

    Don't panic nanamorb, it will flower eventually but they are notoriously slow growers to begin with. Once it establishes itself in a couple of years it will take off and flower every year.

  • nanamorbnanamorb Posts: 4

    Thanks everyone!  Guess I will  to be patient - not one of my qualities, especially where the garden is concerned

  • BookertooBookertoo Posts: 1,306

    Patience is the one virtue you need as a gardener - and one I never had until I took up gardening many years ago - you just cannot rush nature and that is all there is to it!  I've still no patience with much, especially myself, but have learned that if it takes 7 years for my special clematis to flower ( and it did!)  then 7 years is what it will take, and there is b***** all I can do about it - other than rip it out and put in something else, thus losing the delight of what I was waiting for in the first place!!

  • nanamorbnanamorb Posts: 4

    I am finding my patience improving with age!image

  • Forester2Forester2 Posts: 1,477

    My Mother's rhyme was:-

    Patience is a virtue

    Virtue is a grace

    And Grace is a little girl who wouldn't wash her face.

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