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POLate winter early spring is when we prune our panicle type hydrangeas: lime light, quick fire, strawberry vanilla are examples. These are the hydrangeas with the cone shaped flowers.
- 1st remove all the thin unproductive stems. Anything thinner than your pinky finger.
- while you were removing the thin stems look for any other stems that are wounded where the bark has rubbed off. That’s a potential for disease.
- next look for any crossing branches that could cause a wound. Remove one of the two crossing branches.
- then look down the center of the plant and make sure there are no branches crossing through the middle of the plant. We want an open center plant where nothing is crowded and crossing.
- on the healthy remaining stems, we only take a third of the length off. If we cut too much length off the new stems that the plant puts out this year are gonna weigh that short stem down and cause flopping.
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