A few of my hydrangeas were damaged during freezing weather earlier this spring. Many ask when is the best time to cut them back. Hydrangeas don’t really need heavy pruning to produce ample flowers.

While pruning in fall is ideal for some plants, for others, it could cause damage, eliminate a winter food source, or prevent ...

If your hydrangeas are grown in containers, rather than directly in your yard, October is a good time to move them into a sheltered position. This will protect them from strong winds and frost.

Prune Hydrangeas Like This or Risk No Flowers Next Year originally appeared on Dengarden. While technically, you don’t have to prune your hydrangeas, the act of cutting away old growth will help them ...

After the article on winter pruning of shrubs, questions concerning pruning hydrangeas have come to the Berks County Master Gardener Hotline. This article will help dispel the mystery. Do you really ...

The Endless Summer hydrangea is a newer variety that flowers on both old and new wood, so it will bloom “endlessly” all summer even if it is pruned in the spring. Courtesy photo The beginning of April ...

A reader asked me why her hydrangea tree was not doing so well. I wrote a column about this in August, but this is the fourth question about hydrangeas I have had in the last two weeks. Her hydrangea ...

The most common reason for a lack of flowers on hydrangeas is that they were pruned at the wrong time of the year.

Spring in Colorado is grand if you’re OK with switching between a heavy jacket and a tank top. We never complain about spring rain or even snow since all moisture is welcome and needed for water use, ...

Hydrangeas are one of the most popular flowers in the United States, thanks to their big, bouncy blooms that come in lovely shades of pink, blue, white, purple, and beyond. To get even more out of ...

The best time to prune most shrubs is in the winter when the plants are dormant, so you can better see their shape. Which means there are many that you should avoid pruning in the spring—with a few ...