We have five Hydrangeas in our garden which seems like a lot for a small space and it probably is. They are great plants for providing year round interest, with amazing long lasting blooms from late spring right through to late summer and a good structure and colour to the stems which adds some interest autumn and in winter.
By keeping all our Hydrangeas in containers and out of direct sun, as well as being well watered, they have all begun to flourish at their different stages of growth. Four of our Hydrangeas are mophead flowering Macrophylla varieties. The largest of our collection has the more traditional blue/pink flowers which change colour according to soil pH. This is one of the two I have repotted. I bought a forty five Litre pot for it, which is the largest container in the garden, so we are expecting it to grow to a good size this year.
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| Copyright Robert Widdowson 2016 |
The largest container in the garden is home to our first Hydrangea
With its previous container empty, I moved a Black Stemmed 'Pink Ball' Hydrangea we got last year into the spare larger pot. The 'Pink Ball' Hydrangea has fluorescent pink flowers and dark shiny black stems on the new growth. We should have a great display of Hydrangeas this year. Our white flowered mophead Hydrangea is still relatively small but we will move it into a bigger container this year to allow it to get as big as possible. It has beautiful dark green leaves which look more tender than the others and we are looking forward to seeing how it does this year. We also have a 'Glam Rock' variety which claims to be the most colourful Hydrangea available. It came as a tiny plug plant and we currently have it in a fifteen Centimetre pot, but i may move it into a more colourful container to match the flowers it may potentially produce this year.
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| Copyright Robert Widdowson 2016 |
The new home for our black stemmed Hydrangea 'Pink Ball'
Our last Hydrangea is a Climbing 'anomala' variety and is doing fairly well in the obelisk we planted it in last year. In mid-summer it did seem to suffer a little, as that area of the garden does catch the early midday sun, but it seems to have both survived and recovered and had plenty of buds ready for this years growing season.
For more information on how to grow Hydrangeas and the many different varieties, check out the Royal Horticultural Societies guide to which there is a link below:
I have made a YouTube Video of how I repotted the Hydrangeas which I have embedded below:
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