Assuming you are moving it to the ground, the one in the pot can be moved at any time as long as it is well watered first to ensure the root ball is thoroughly moistened. You'll need to keep it watered till the autumn rains start to ensure it doesn't go thirsty while it's growing new roots into the surrounding soil.
If you want to move it to a bigger pot that can also be done now and, again, it needs plenty of water and you will have to provide nutrients with good quality compost and top ups of fertiliser every spring.
For the one in the ground, like any shrub, it is best moved in autumn once it has dropped its leaves and gone dormant. The soil will still be warm enough for it to grow new roots over the winter and produce a good display next spring and summer. As before, water well before and after planting.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Remember that a Hydrangea flowers on LAST YEAR'S new shoots. So any shoots that have grown new this year, will flower next year. This year's flowering shoots can be cut back, in the spring, to the two first shooting lateral buds.
It depends on the hydrangea. The lace caps, mop heads and quercifolias do flower on last year's growth so can be pruned immediately after flowering to keep them to size and shape. They can damaged by harsh winters which will kill the potential flowering stems.
The paniculatas flower on this year's growth so can be cut back in spring to encourage new shoots to form. These are great plants for those of us with hard winters.
All hydrangeas like moist soil - the clue is in the name hydra meaning water - and some prefer dappled shade but others can cope with full sun.
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)."
obelixx is right - check which varieties you have before doing any snipping! A house near me had a hydrangea at the front gate which never flowered because every spring the owners pruned it and were just removing every potential flowering stem. You'd think they would have asked someone at some point why there was no flowers - it's a pretty ugly shrub when it's just hacked into a large shapeless lump!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks for the clarification on types and pruning... I guess I should have certainly elaborated. I love hydrangeas - when I was 12, some rather avant-garde friends of my parents gave me a pot-grown blue mop-head hydrangea - and I was so blown away by such an odd yet lovely gift! Imagine my confusion then, when the following year, it sprouted three pink flowers. Now, bear in mind, I'm in my late 50's now, so we had no google, internet or easy technological research facilities. it was the library, or nothing! So I read every gardening book I could find to discover why my flowers had sprouted in a different colour.
Well, I was hooked. All those books gave me the answer, but taught me so much more. I developed green fingers very rapidly, and my next purchase (from a local church Jumble sale) was a sedum, planted in a yoghurt pot. That grew to huge proportions, and i was fascinated in the spring to see the tiny cabbage-like clusters of buds close to the ground...
I also love Hydrangeas and they make lovely long lasting cut flowers in the house, also look great when dried and can even be sprayed gold for Christmas and
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Assuming you are moving it to the ground, the one in the pot can be moved at any time as long as it is well watered first to ensure the root ball is thoroughly moistened. You'll need to keep it watered till the autumn rains start to ensure it doesn't go thirsty while it's growing new roots into the surrounding soil.
If you want to move it to a bigger pot that can also be done now and, again, it needs plenty of water and you will have to provide nutrients with good quality compost and top ups of fertiliser every spring.
For the one in the ground, like any shrub, it is best moved in autumn once it has dropped its leaves and gone dormant. The soil will still be warm enough for it to grow new roots over the winter and produce a good display next spring and summer. As before, water well before and after planting.
Thank you I will do as you suggest and hopefully they will be lovely next year.
Remember that a Hydrangea flowers on LAST YEAR'S new shoots. So any shoots that have grown new this year, will flower next year. This year's flowering shoots can be cut back, in the spring, to the two first shooting lateral buds.
Thank you, I can now tidy up the huge Hydrangeas in my front garden, I have just been dead heading them in spring
It depends on the hydrangea. The lace caps, mop heads and quercifolias do flower on last year's growth so can be pruned immediately after flowering to keep them to size and shape. They can damaged by harsh winters which will kill the potential flowering stems.
The paniculatas flower on this year's growth so can be cut back in spring to encourage new shoots to form. These are great plants for those of us with hard winters.
All hydrangeas like moist soil - the clue is in the name hydra meaning water - and some prefer dappled shade but others can cope with full sun.
obelixx is right - check which varieties you have before doing any snipping! A house near me had a hydrangea at the front gate which never flowered because every spring the owners pruned it and were just removing every potential flowering stem. You'd think they would have asked someone at some point why there was no flowers - it's a pretty ugly shrub when it's just hacked into a large shapeless lump!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
..this is a type of Hydrangea that flowers on this season's growth ... paniculata 'Phantom'...
..it can be pruned hard back in Spring... I suspect, like most people, you probably have the Mophead type, and not this...?
Thanks for the clarification on types and pruning... I guess I should have certainly elaborated. I love hydrangeas - when I was 12, some rather avant-garde friends of my parents gave me a pot-grown blue mop-head hydrangea - and I was so blown away by such an odd yet lovely gift! Imagine my confusion then, when the following year, it sprouted three pink flowers. Now, bear in mind, I'm in my late 50's now, so we had no google, internet or easy technological research facilities. it was the library, or nothing! So I read every gardening book I could find to discover why my flowers had sprouted in a different colour.
Well, I was hooked. All those books gave me the answer, but taught me so much more. I developed green fingers very rapidly, and my next purchase (from a local church Jumble sale) was a sedum, planted in a yoghurt pot. That grew to huge proportions, and i was fascinated in the spring to see the tiny cabbage-like clusters of buds close to the ground...
Ah.... memories....
Sorry.... So Off-topic!
I also love Hydrangeas and they make lovely long lasting cut flowers in the house, also look great when dried and can even be sprayed gold for Christmas and