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Inimitable hydrangeas with their magnificent hats inflorescences, unique colors and especially the massive crown never go out of fashion. Their love not only for its extraordinary beauty and the ability to stay in the shading and atypical soils.

Among these beauties, there are creepers, but the most widespread shrub species of hydrangeas. But any flowering Bush hydrangea really has become one of the highlights of the garden season, will have to try and provide the plant care. Watering, fertilizing, mulching the soil for hydrangeas is also very important, but the main key of health and beauty of flowering and cropping.



Why do I need to trim hydrangeas?

Hydrangeas growing in the form of shrubs are able to survive and without cropping. But is attractive not only from the point of view of the blossom, but from the beauty of the crown, without it they will not. Hydrangea, for which miss even one year of shaping and trimming, get launched, getting sloppy and unkempt, not to mention the fact that the quality of such flowering hydrangeas decreases exponentially. Directly from the crop depend on the size of the buds.

Pruning hydrangeas need:

• to maintain health;
• for a beautiful silhouette and the formation of the magnificent crowns with dense foliage;
• for lush and powerful flowering;
• constant rejuvenation and preservation of the decoration from year to year.

Thanks to pruning the plants produce powerful stems, give a qualitative increase. And the need for radical renewal and the formation of an emergency will never arise.





  How to trim hydrangeas? A different approach to pruning shrubby hydrangeas is determined by the type of plant.

The type and time of pruning hydrangeas is directly dependent on the plant species and the flowering type. Only one of the hydrangeas is a charming bigleaf hydrangea (hydrangea macrophylla) – blooms on last year shoots (or rather, on the young shoots that grew from the top buds on last year's twigs with laying of flower buds in the fall). Her buds are laid on the ends of branches, and if you cut the shrub by the standard technique, the plant does not bloom at all. Pruning of this plant comes to sanitary cleaning and cutting of last year's inflorescences.

Luxury ground cover hydrangea (hydrangea heteromalla), which despite its name grows as a Bush, wide, round, lush, flowering on shoots of the current year. But pruning is different from trimming other shrubs hydrangeas: for this plant carried only a slight shortening of long branches, allowing the bushes thicken and achieve a more abundant flowering.

All other hydrangeas bloom on the shoots of the current year, and cut them in classical technique. These include:

• a classic favorite of gardeners hydrangea paniculata (hydrangea paniculata);
• inimitable hydrangea tree (hydrangea arborescens);
• the serrated hydrangea (hydrangea macrophylla serrata forms) – despite the fact that the plant is considered as a form of hydrangea macrophylla, to get a more spectacular flowering it is better to trim like a regular shrub hydrangeas;
• oakleaf hydrangea (hydrangea quercifolia);
• radiant hydrangea (hydrangea radiatа);
• ashy hydrangea (hydrangea cinerea);
• hydrangea rough, or rough (hydrangea aspera);
• hydrangea of Sargent, or Sargent (hydrangea sargentiana).

The timing of pruning shrubby hydrangeas

To a garden of hydrangeas, flowering on shoots of the current year bloomed magnificently, they need to be cut early Vienna. Pruning should be carried out as early as possible to the development of the flowering accessions had more time. Traditionally hydrangea pruned in March-April, focusing on swelling of the growth buds. Before they begin to appear, pruning should take place: the buds will indicate the location of new shoots and will help to trim correctly. Tighten with pruning and also it should not be: the time remaining for the development of new branches will allow the hydrangeas to bloom in a typical timeframe and to prepare for winter. It is believed that the first prune a tree hydrangea, but paniculate like a later crop.

Despite the fact that the bigleaf hydrangea blooms on last year's growth, pruning is also carried out in spring, as early as possible. But her character is radically different from pruning other roses hydrangeas.

For hydrangeas in need of winter shelter, pruning is often transferred for the autumn. But before the shelter it is better to spend only a maximum of a slight shortening of the shoots, and a full pruning should be repeated every spring.

Components pruning hydrangeas:

• sanitary cutting, or cleaning – removal of old, damaged, weak, dry shoots of last year's flowers.
• formation – crop, aimed at regulating the density and crown shape in young plants is the formation of skeletal branches;
• stimulating or regulating crop – annual haircut, aimed at obtaining a more powerful flowering;
• radical rejuvenation of radical pruning, which is carried out instead of the other three components for old, neglected, oppressed hydrangeas.

The removal of withered blossoms in the fall, a step that can be skipped. Inflorescences hydrangeas with the arrival of cold weather will change the color like they put a purple powder. And in the winter garden under the snow "hats" look just adorable. If you want to decorate a garden, dry inflorescences hydrangeas, pruning last year's blossoms, you'll be able to spend along with the trim.

Formative pruning of young hydrangea

Formation, or the initial pruning is a very important task that must be completed in the first 2-3 years after planting the bushes. Hydrangeas that have not carried out the formation, can not form a crown with evenly spaced skeleton shoots, and strong branches, they have more often than not, grow properly.

In the first year after planting, the Bush should not bother to adapt, to create the conditions for strong stress. In order not to "distract" the hydrangea from the main goal – the formation of a powerful and well-developed root system, pruning is carried out easy governing, only sanitary. The saplings are cut, all damaged and weak shoots when planting and pruning be delayed until the following typical dates March-April. Planting "tree stump" facilitates the formation, but impairs growth and flowering, and experienced growers have long abandoned. The first pruning on a powerful, large bushes hold up? the length of branches and small saplings shortening is performed only on a 1/3 of shoots.

In the second year after planting is carried out first severe pruning of the bushes. For hydrangeas in early spring need to undertake a major trim last year's growth, leaving only 2-3 good developing buds above the old part of the stem. When pruning to create a skeletal base of a Bush of strong shoots forming a uniform crown and outward.



Adults spray pruning hydrangeas

From the third year to begin regular pruning, including:

• powerful stimulating the growth of flowering shoots pruning (last year's growth on plants pruned to 2-4 buds, from which grow new strong flowering branches);
  
  
• frost pruning the ends of shoots damaged, dry branches;
  
  
• thinning and shaping: when thickening the active growth of branches into the crown of the "extra" shoots should always be removed, giving the shrubs too close (pay special attention to the small shoots that are not flowering and aimed to the center of the crown, as well as zero shoots coming from the roots and too weak for flowering);
  
  
• renewal pruning: shrub is desirable every year to leave 6-10 strong shoots (of which only 2-5 branches from last year's growth), by removing the oldest (3-4 years) shoots to the ground and always cutting to the soil the branches, giving the weak new growth.
  
  

Radical rejuvenation

Old bushes of hydrangeas and the plants that suffered from diseases and pests, are in poor or depressed you can shed more radical way. These hydrangeas are cut "on the stump", affecting new growth and perennial wood. Usually for hydrangeas cutting method used up to a height of 50-80 cm After rejuvenating hydrangeas may skip one flowering season, but the bushes again to be resumed, and will form an attractive crown.





Care for a hydrangea after pruning

A required component of care for shrubs, pruning of the past, in fact is just dressing. With fertilizer to stimulate strong development of new shoots, not to allow the growth to stretch to thin. For such feeding it is better to use a complete fertilizer.

But it is equally important to spend for hydrangeas and mulching, which it is better to complete the process of trimming. Compost, manure, peat, humus is perfect to create a thick layer with a height of 5 cm posted

 

Author: Tatiana Shumovskaya

 

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