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Hydrangea Planting Guide
Hydrangea planting is best for those of us who live in milder climates because their buds, which are formed on last year's growth, can be easily damaged by winter warming and later frosts.
Hydrangea Planting Tips
- Buy from a reputable online source, or your local garden center. Be sure the plant is blooming so that you know you are getting a plant that has been labeled correctly. Sometimes they are mislabeled in garden centers.
- Plant after the last freeze date in order to be sure the plant won't be zapped by the cold. If it is zapped, you will not get any blooms.
- Try not to plant during the summer, but if you do, give it plenty of water until it's established.
If you love to craft from your garden, especially if you enjoy drying hydrangeas for arrangements, centerpieces, and wreaths. Be sure and plant some of these beauties. Some of the ones we love the best for crafting are the: - Oakleaf Hydrangeas: Do well in sun or shade and are especially good in extremely hot areas. Giving them a little more sun helps them to turn a nice reddish shade which I love to use for drying.
- Annabel: We love these "Mopheads" and so do our deer. These emerge with large white heads and then turn green. That's when I dry them. You can spray paint these any color to match your interior. They also come in pink and blue.
- Grandiflora also called "Peegee": These can take the most sun and heat as long as you water, water, water!
- Blue-flowering varieties: Try the "niko blue" variety. We love it.
Hydrangea Care
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