Hydrangeas are a beautiful addition to any home garden, with countless varieties, colors, and sizes to choose from. They look great with just about anything, but when deciding what to plant next to ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One of the most common flowering shrubs in Northeast Ohio gardens may be the hydrangea. With large, showy yet elegant flower clusters that have long-lasting blooms and the ability ...
Plant panicle hydrangeas in full sun and prune in early spring to promote more blooms. Smooth hydrangeas thrive in moist, ...
Hydrangeas are a fantastic shrub for any garden, but they need to be planted in the right place to produce their beautiful blooms year-after-year. They are not highly drought-tolerant plants as their ...
Last week, I wrote about selective pruning, an important maintenance practice used to remove broken, damaged and diseased branches from trees and shrubs. Selective pruning is used to improve their ...
Cold damage can affect the spring blooming of hydrangeas, especially bigleaf hydrangeas. Provide some insulation in winter ...
Hydrangeas, with their big fluffy summer blooms, are among the most popular and loved shrubs in Chicago-area gardens. But gardeners often are flummoxed about when to prune them — especially in winter, ...
There are many shrubs blooming throughout the county garnering white, puffy blooms. Some people are confused and think these profuse bloomers are a type of snowball bush. However, these landscape ...
There’s much to love about hydrangeas, whether it’s their voluminous blooms, vast range of species and colors, or varying heights. This all means the options for incorporating hydrangeas into your ...
Gardening columnist Don Kinzler takes questions from readers, including whether cutting blooms from Bobo hydrangeas for a bouquet will harm the plant. A reader asks gardening columnist to identify the ...
I love old gardening sayings that have passed the test of time. One of my favorites is “prune until it hurts, and then prune some more.” The truism is meant to allay our fear of pruning, as though ...