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can i plant thisin my garden?

starlily106starlily106 Posts: 15
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after help with my last query i would like more advice please. My son bought me a white hydrangea in a pot for mothers day which i was going to plant in the garden later on. but when i read the instructions it said 'discard after  flowers die off''. is this right? i have seen what looks like the same plants at one of the plant stalls in the market  and they were for the garden, but when i asked the lady working there she wasn't sure. she said she would ask the stall owner,but keeps forgetting.it seems such a waste to discard it.

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Don't throw it away, it'll be fine, I would pot it into a bigger pot, keep it out on the patio when you're sure the frosts have finished, keep it in a very sheltered place or a cold greenhouse for next winter then next Spring you can put it in the garden.

    They don't like drying out, so keep it damp.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923

    try anything in the garden, I had a lovely poinsettia growing in a border last summer, not frost hardy but it filled a spot all summer till the got knocked back and I fill the spot with a hardy shrub in the autumn

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    When they sell those hydrangeas they are brought on quickly in a hot house, I don't think it advisable to put it straight out.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143

    It'll be absolutely fine - I've done it - I did just as Lyn suggests. 

    They only want you to buy another one next year.  You don't need to, you'll have your own..

    Of course, you can always buy another one as well, another colour maybe image


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





  • starlily106starlily106 Posts: 15

    Thank you so much for the very quick replies.  i hate throwing plants away, in fact i often buy plants when they are reduced just because i feel sorry for them.

    and Dovefromabove, i already have a beautiful blue hydrangea which was already in the garden when i moved here. so maybe i will try a pink one next. 

    someone further up the street has one which has a mixture of blue and pink flowers, don't know how as i thought the colour was decided by whether the soil was acid or alkaline.

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