{"id":300,"date":"2011-03-03T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=300"},"modified":"2011-03-06T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T17:28:25","slug":"pruning-hydrangeas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/03\/03\/pruning-hydrangeas\/","title":{"rendered":"Prune Some Hydrangeas Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_932\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0898.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-932\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-932 \" title=\"DSC_0898\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0898-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0898-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0898-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hydrangea paniculata &#39;Limelight&#39; in July<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PeeGee or panicled hydrangea (<em>Hydrangea paniculata<\/em>)\u00a0and\u00a0our native Smooth hydrangea (<em>Hydrangea arborescens<\/em>) are pruned now in late winter thru early spring. Why? &#8211;\u00a0because these hydrangeas bloom on new or current season&#8217;s wood.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years these two hydrangea species grow to enormous sizes. When they overwhelm their garden space, severely\u00a0cut them back to\u00a0within 6 -12\u00a0\u00a0inches from the ground in late winter or early spring. Next, thin out the number of shoots (canes), leaving\u00a0several\u00a0of pencil size\u00a0thickness.\u00a0\u00a0In the spring each cane\u00a0will grow out\u00a0new shoots\u00a0which\u00a0bloom this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Severe cutting back\u00a0 is called renewal pruning. Timing will vary with the species of hydrangeas planted\u00a0in your garden.\u00a0 After pruning apply a slow release fertilizer especially formulated for flowering shrubs. Follow the package directions. Apply a good organic mulch\u00a0to a 2 &#8211; 3 inch depth around each hydrangea to conserve\u00a0 soil\u00a0moisture\u00a0this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Oakleaf (<em>H. quercifolia<\/em>) and\u00a0 bigleaf\u00a0 (<em>H. macrophylla<\/em>) hydrangeas may also be pruned now, but flower numbers\u00a0in spring and summer\u00a0may be greatly reduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PeeGee or panicled hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata)\u00a0and\u00a0our native Smooth hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens) are pruned now in late winter thru early spring. Why? &#8211;\u00a0because these hydrangeas bloom on new or current season&#8217;s wood. Over the years these two hydrangea species grow to enormous sizes. When they overwhelm their garden space, severely\u00a0cut them back to\u00a0within 6 -12\u00a0\u00a0inches from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[602,9,622,675,601,630,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}