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Q: My Nikko Blue hydrangea is about 5 years old. It looks fantastic, but blooms less and less each year. It has lots of healthy leaves, but few flowers. Do you have any suggestions? — Adrienn… ...
It also tolerates full sun better than most hydrangeas, meaning you should be able to plant it in a variety of different spots in your garden. Nikko Blue (Hydrangea macrophylla) Blue more your thing?
Panicle hydrangeas are generally much more cold hardy than bigleaf hydrangeas (for example, a 'Limelight' panicle hydrangea is hardy in USDA zones 3 to 9, while a 'Nikko Blue' bigleaf hydrangea is ...
Q. I have a `Nikko Blue’ hydrangea that is 5 years old. For the past two years, it has had only one bloom. The plant gets seven hours of sun per day and I cut it back to about 6 inches in the fall.
French hydrangeas are prized for their globe-like blooms, popping off like fireworks shows in gardens throughout the late spring and early summer. Mopheads are typically pink, blue, or white, but ...
Q: My Nikko Blue hydrangeas have blooms that are partially to fully brown from some sort of disease. The leaves are fine; only the blooms are affected, and soil pH is perfect.
Q: I bought a ‘Nikko Blue’ hydrangea that has now turned pink! I put a whole bag of something to turn it back to blue, which it sort of has. Is it rusted iron that you’re supposed to use? A ...
Q: This spring I nursed back to health three 'Nikko Blue' hydrangeas. Snails ravaged them last year. The leaf edges also browned, then holes appeared. I had sticks for most of the winter. In ...
Courtesy of I.C., North Syracuse GARDEN TIP: Bigleaf hydrangeas like Endless Summer need little pruning. Just after flowering, clip each flowering stem back to a pair of strong buds. In early ...
That's why the florists' hydrangeas, those 1-gallon pots with oversize flowers, are such intense shades of pink or blue. Florist hydrangeas can be planted out in the garden after being hardened ...