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my poor Hydranger

Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 3/8/2025, 19:17:41

I should be a lovely pink but with all the sun its almost white not so pretty,or could it be the empty soup tins I put out under the shrub,I remember being told metal under the shrub changed its colour

Re: my poor Hydranger

Posted by Jean <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Jean' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 3/8/2025, 20:19:01, in reply to "my poor Hydranger"

I think it needs to be iron Norma. We had beautiful hydrangeas at home. The ones at the front were creamy pink. Mum put an old iron bed head under the ones at the back and they were blue!!!

Re: my poor Hydranger

Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 3/8/2025, 21:04:18, in reply to "Re: my poor Hydranger"

I was thinging of used razer blades,Should have kept Mums old flat irons she a 3, ]

Re: my poor Hydranger

Posted by PeteH2 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=PeteH2' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 3/8/2025, 23:00:35, in reply to "Re: my poor Hydranger"

It’s a tricky one Norma. I’ve got a few of them myself. They don’t all respond the same to soil conditions but in general if it is a pink hydrangea it needs an alkaline ph soil the quick way to do this is to add a little garden lime, but don’t overdo it.
However, if yours has lost colour completely it’s probably just struggling with the conditions it’s in. Could be too dry, they need to keep moist.
Lovely plants when they thrive!

Re: my poor Hydranger

Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 4/8/2025, 8:11:39, in reply to "Re: my poor Hydranger"

My next door nieghbour has one thats Heprotected by the large mock cherry tree, It keeps it colour,funny story it was nealy taken years ago,the neighbour came home from shopping to find her husband trying to dig it up,He said his daughter in law wanted it,Was told she could buy one ,that one stays here,

Re: my poor Hydranger

Posted by Eileen <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Eileen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/8/2025, 20:02:55, in reply to "Re: my poor Hydranger"

Norma I have a few of them in my garden, the three in the front garden are large and have been beautuful with very little attention they are in the ground all together. The ones in the back are in pots and have suffered a bit from all the dry weather, even one that I transplanted into the ground last year. I watered them almost everynight when it was hot and they have improved. All of them I have grown from cuttings but they don't like to be too dry. To save water I have been taking the washing up water and using that, the fairy liquid doesn't seem to bother them. I don't know what my water bill will be like but I would hate to lose them. One of them is from a cutting I put in when we bought the house in 1971. I'll take a photo of them and put them on tomorrow.

Re: my poor Hydranger

Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 7/8/2025, 7:49:08, in reply to "Re: my poor Hydranger"

Cannot remember buying one, think this one was in the garden when we moved here in 1968,lost some plants when the back garden near the, house was paved,A path concrete went around the back of the house,Mac had to have someone break it up as it was almost as high as the damp course,

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