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Pink hydrangea blooming white

AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

This year my pink hydrangea's flowers are white. I know it needs something, but what? I googled it and found a website that said it needed 'high phosphate' fertiliser.

Do you agree?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143

    Hi AlexX image

    Can you tell us more about your hydrangea please?  There are quite a few types

    Is it a mophead, lacecap , paniculata, oak-leaved or .............. ?


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





  • AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

    Hi Dove

    It was new last year - Hydrangea macrophylla 'King George' - so mophead. It bloomed pink last year.

    Thank you

  • AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

    Does anyone have any advice on what to give my hydrangea, please?

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    I am not sure there is any additive you can give to turn white to pink. Pink to blue can be done, sometimes.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

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  • AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

    Thanks for your reply punkdoc. It is a pink hydrangea which flowered pink last year when I bought it,  but this year the flowers are white - so I thought (new to gardening) that is must not be getting some sort of nutrient it needs. 

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