{"id":9850,"date":"2017-03-17T00:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T00:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9850"},"modified":"2024-03-03T16:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T16:54:43","slug":"grow-healthy-hydrangeas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/grow-healthy-hydrangeas\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow Healthy Hydrangeas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hydrangea by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3926934022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2511\/3926934022_2e543d81e1.jpg\" alt=\"Hydrangea\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several types of Hydrangea to consider. The Mop Heads or Hortensia above, the lace caps or other species. They are a rewarding group of plants to grow well but need the right conditions to excel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Provide Suitable Growing Conditions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All hydrangeas thrive in moist well drained fertile soil.<\/li>\n<li>Too wet and humid and you may get root rot and botrytis on foliage.<\/li>\n<li>Hydrangeas appreciate partial shade.<\/li>\n<li>Shallow chalky soil or light sandy acid soil may cause yellowing of leaves. To cure this water or foliar feed with Epsom salt (Mangenisum Sulphate).<\/li>\n<li>Hot dry conditions can encourage powdery mildew.<\/li>\n<li>Hydrangeas can be prone to insect attack from Aphids, Red Spider mite, Capsid bugs and even Vine Weevil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Hydrangea by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3743351690\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2427\/3743351690_264ddf8de2.jpg\" alt=\"Hydrangea\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0Lacecap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Flowering Problems<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The main cause of non-flowering is pruning too hard and cutting off the buds. Just trim off the old heads in spring to the first fat buds.<\/li>\n<li>The failure of flowers to turn blue is caused by a shortage of trace elements of Aluminium. This is available in acid soils but not alkaline soils.<\/li>\n<li>Some species will change from pink to blue by using a proprietary preparation or colourant. This is unlikely to work when the soil is too alkaline.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a pink flower this can be enhanced by applying limestone or chalk during winter.<\/li>\n<li>White flowers remain white whatever you do. Some fade to a pink tinge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"8 foot hydrangea by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3899249759\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3519\/3899249759_628c007b22.jpg\" alt=\"8 foot hydrangea\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Other Sources of information<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hydrangeas available<\/strong> from Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/p>\n<p><strong>See<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=738\">Help to change Hydrangea colour<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hydrangeashydrangeas.com\/\">Hydrangea Hydrangea <\/a>an enthusiasts site<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=hydrangea&amp;sprefix=hydrangea\/richardpettin-21\">Amazon<\/a> for Hydrangea books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To grow health Hydrangeas give them the soil and conditions they like and you will be repayed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,290,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","category-hydrangeatips","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850","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=9850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21466,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850\/revisions\/21466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}