{"id":19571,"date":"2018-11-11T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19571"},"modified":"2018-11-11T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:49:20","slug":"my-climbing-hydrangea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/hydrangeatips\/my-climbing-hydrangea\/","title":{"rendered":"My Climbing Hydrangea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the idea of a climbing hydrangea more than the actual experience. Good specimens seem to produce a profusion of frothy, white blossoms particularly when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=climbing+hydrangea&amp;client=firefox-b&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjthN-x0czeAhXiBsAKHbNrDs0Q_AUIDigB&amp;biw=1334&amp;bih=731\">grown by someone else<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>My Problem Climbing Hydrangea<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In my case I planted the sole attempt near a supporting wall. The soil my not be of the best quality, fertility nor humous rich. So what can I expect from Hydrangea petiolaris an Asian woodland native.<\/li>\n<li>To compound my sins the wall faces north but in mitigation it is only 2 feet high and the climber now occupies both sides. However flowers are there none or sparse to say the least.<\/li>\n<li>Nostrums, potions and plenty of compost have not stimulated leaf or branch growth so what hope of flowers.<\/li>\n<li>I expected this Hydrangea to take a while to settle in and start producing but 5 years on and my patience is wearing thin. I guess that is true of the plant which is still keen on revenge for my earlier mistakes over its location.<\/li>\n<li>I would prune it after flowering in mid summer but without flowers to set me off I have been a bit too lax. Then again the plant is a bit lax too.<\/li>\n<li>In researching this post I discover Hydrangea anomala is a species of vine hydrangea and may be my plant is as confused as I am.<\/li>\n<li>I trim <span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\">the vine to control its height and width or make cuts at leaf nodes to encourage the plant to fill out. However I may be chopping of my buds to spite my face.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Where too Now<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut my losses and turf the climbing hydrangea out.<\/li>\n<li>Take cuttings and try new locations more in keeping with its needs. A poor strain of plant will not get better after vegetative propagation.<\/li>\n<li>Stick with it and be happy there is one plant to have a moan about.<\/li>\n<li>Either move to the south of the UK or buy this book about getting Hydrangeas to bloom in the north.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1456583468\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1456583468.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the idea of a climbing hydrangea more than the actual experience. Good specimens seem to produce a profusion of frothy, white blossoms particularly when grown by someone else. My Problem Climbing Hydrangea In my case I planted the sole attempt near a supporting wall. The soil my not be of the best quality, fertility nor humous rich. So what can I expect from Hydrangea petiolaris an Asian woodland native. To compound my sins the wall faces north but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/hydrangeatips\/my-climbing-hydrangea\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hydrangeatips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19573,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions\/19573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}