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Think hydrangea is dead

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  • Ahh thank you.

    Last year there was that one green shoot with the flower and the rest remained as brown stumps.

    So sad as it was an absolute beauty in its former days.

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Worth doing as Verdun says, but I fear the worst.

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

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Verdun says:
    ... it looks dry there.  Maybe not the pruning but being denied moisture is the reason for its condition.  Hydrangeas need plenty of water!  image

     I was just about to say the same thing ...


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





  • Thank you image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    If it's looked like that since spring 2015, it's dead or as good as. Maybe you could get a shoot somewhere but it won't be a thing of beauty again. It will just sit there making you feel bad. Get it out and plant something that will like the soil and position



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Thank you, yes I do feel bad as know it will take years to get another one looking as good as this one did back in the day. 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I have developed a gardening philosophy that accepts that nothing lives for ever. I like the changes, introducing something new, it livens up the garden. Hanging on to something that is over just prolongs the agony. image



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Very true!!

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