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SummerMom
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Hydrangeas - fall clean up
My landscapers are doing the fall cleanup right now. I just went out to check on them and see that they cut all my hydrangeas down to 9-inch tall stubs.  Many of them were waist-high or taller this year. I usually just let them be, and pull off the dried-out flowers in the spring. Don't the flowers grow on last year's wood? Will I get flowers next year?
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Posted 12/12/11 10:16 AM  |
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jlk51496
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
oh my goodness..I hope so...our landscapers did the same thing last week!
I have a black thumb so I have no idea..I am hoping the landscapers know what they are doing! 
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| Posted 12/12/11 12:02 PM |
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
Mine get cut down every fall and they grow back nice and full (if not bigger!) every year. I wouldn't worry.
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| Posted 12/12/11 12:04 PM |
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CurlyQ
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
That's what your supposed to do. They will grow back fuller and have more flowers next year.
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| Posted 12/12/11 12:14 PM |
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maymama
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
yes, ours were chopped down to nothing as well.
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| Posted 12/12/11 1:04 PM |
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PotofLuck06
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
Posted by Dutchess Cloverly
Mine get cut down every fall and they grow back nice and full (if not bigger!) every year. I wouldn't worry.
We don't have landscapers, but we cut ours down, and they bloom back each year with larger more fuller blooms. I wouldn't worry!
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| Posted 12/12/11 1:17 PM |
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KittyGags
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
My husband cut mine to like 3 inch stubs last year. I almost killed him, I got very few flowers this year. I'm not cutting mine AT ALL this year.
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| Posted 12/12/11 2:30 PM |
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tourist
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
It depends on a few things, such as the variety of hydrangeas. Many of them bloom on old wood, but the 9 inches might be enough. You aren't supped to cut them down the ground.
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| Posted 12/12/11 2:44 PM |
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cindy104
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
I cut mine down a little more than halfway and every year they get bigger and fuller; with more flowers 
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| Posted 12/12/11 5:16 PM |
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Bugaboo
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
My landscaper does this every year and they always grow back very full and huge.
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| Posted 12/12/11 7:02 PM |
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
Posted by KittyGags
My husband cut mine to like 3 inch stubs last year. I almost killed him, I got very few flowers this year. I'm not cutting mine AT ALL this year.
We did this after our first year in the house based on advice from someone I'll never take it from again. We've been in our house now for 4.5 years & the hydrangeas have never been the same.
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| Posted 12/12/11 8:59 PM |
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SummerMom
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
Thank you for the replies! I was worried when I saw everything gone, but now I'm not.
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| Posted 12/12/11 10:59 PM |
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babymakes3
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Re: Hydrangeas - fall clean up
My landscapers cut them down to about 1.5ft tall this year. We've never cut them back that far so I pray they grow back and bloom!
When we first moved in April 2009, my FIL cut them back and one never flowered that year. The other two flowered, but they were tiny compared to the flowers we got in 2010 and 2011. (The blooms were as big as my head this year!) I wonder if it was because he cut them back too late?
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| Posted 12/12/11 11:14 PM |
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