![]() ![]() Hardiness and big, colorful blooms in the garden! You can’t beat daylilies for their reliability, To promote a second flush of blooms, snip off faded flowers, pruning to the first set of leaves. In our zone 7b garden, I apply the fertilizer to the hydrangeas mid-March I’ve had great success with Pennington UltraGreen Azalea, Camellia & Rhododendron Plant Food, I’m often asked what fertilizer I use on our hydrangeas. Garden limewill increase soil alkalinity and keep hydrangeas pink in color. Use a soil acidifier product with Aluminum Sulphate,įollowing the directions on the package to produce blue flowers. Pine needles and coffee grounds, or for quicker results, You can amend your soil to become more acidic by adding composted oak leaves, Hydrangeas need sun to bloom, preferring morning sun with afternoon shade,Įspecially in the hot and humid South.just like me. We have a couple of BloomStruck Hydrangeas planted by the Potting Shed.īloomStruck is a newer addition to the Endless Summer collection of reblooming hydrangeas.īloomStruck has red-purple stems and like other Endless Summer Hydrangeas,īlooms on old wood from last year’s growth and the new growth of summer. You can look up your hardiness zone by zipcode, here. Note: For new gardeners, a USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the standard by which gardeners can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. They mature to 3 – 5 feet in height and width and are hardy in USDA zones 4 – 9. I highly recommend planting an Endless Summer Hydrangea if you have room in your landscape. For more information see my disclosure policy. Turning blue in acidic soil and pink in alkaline soil. (Hydrangea macrophylla) that can be blue or pink depending on your soil’s pH level, Watering more frequently, to help ‘boost the bloom’!Įndless Summer Hydrangeas have been blooming for a couple of weeks now.Įndless Summer Hydrangeas are a re-blooming bigleaf variety of hydrangea Upping the frequency to every 7 days during the heat of summer when I’m I apply it every two weeks to my containers and window boxes starting in the spring, Miracle-Gro Bloom Booster is my ‘go-to’ fertilizer for summer annuals and containers. I’ve had several readers ask about the fertilizer I use for my window boxes. They’re filled with petunias, Blackie sweet potato vine and coleus,įor colorful foliage that will be showy long after the petunias fade. The window boxes were planted with an assortment of sun-loving annuals after our frost date in mid April. The first year blooms were a pale cream with a hint of apricotĪnd then deeper apricot, but a far cry from yellow. Or cream with a blush of pink, depending on the weather. I read that it has a reputation for being inconsistent in color, emerging as yellow, apricot, Looked it up to see if I remembered the color correctly I thought it was yellow when I ordered it, so I This is the second year with Charles Darwin, a David Austin Rose. In the hot and humid South and blooms through fall. Verbena Lollipop grows 24 – 36 inches tall at maturity and tolerates the heat which is critical I fall in the ‘not so tidy’ category of gardening, so don’t worry about it sprouting up. It can pop up everywhere, which may or may not be a good thing,ĭepending on your gardening style and landscape. ![]() It makes me happy that it self sows but it’s not for gardeners who like things ‘tidy’. It’s hardy in USDA zones 6 – 10, prefers full sun in well-drained soil,Īnd is a pollinator favorite, attracting bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Saving me from having to do any watering,īut requiring lots of weeding this week! This post contains affiliate links. Last week was a very wet one, with 4 inches of rain, ![]() Powers says to grab yourself somethingĬold to drink and a hat to keep the sun off your face. Photo heavy post ahead, we’re in the 90s this week so I’m sharing a June garden update with the window boxes in bloomĪnd summer garden flowers around The Potting Shed! ![]()
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