Re: Hydrangeas not doing anything this year
- From: Bob H <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 18:31:09 +0000
Sam wrote:
Bob H wrote:About 2 years ago I bought and planted 2 hydrangea plants in biggish pots on a North facing wall. The first year there were leaves on both, more on one than the other, and the 2nd year there were flowers on one but not the other. This year so far there is nothing, no leaves or sign of growth.
Are they dead, or will they eventually grow?
Thanks
Hi Bob,
You do know that hydrangeas are calcifuges don't you?
That means they they are lime haters and require an acidic compost
to grow in, and also and ericaceous feed from time to time.
If they are in large ports and it would be a big job to repot them
I suggest you get some Sequestrene and give them a good dose of
that, followed by regular applications of ericaceous feeds.
If they are smaller, then repot in an ericaceous compost,still
keeping to the regular ericaceous feed as recommended on the bottle.
The north facing wall is no great worry. My hydrangea was in the shade
most of the day and was still good.
Sam
Hi Sam,
err, no I didn't know that! But I was told that they need ericaceous compost which they are in. The pots are about 16 inches in diameter by about 12 inches high.
Thanks for the information and I will get some Sequestrene plus ericaceous feed for them.
.
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