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Hydrangeas that don’t lose their color along the gulf coast
Posted on 8/17/26 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 8/17/26 at 3:57 pm
I see some hydrangea varieties in my neighborhood and along the golf course that seem to maintain flowers with colors. Mine lose their color with the heat, the flowers are still “alive” but dull to a greenish/ brown. I’m assuming it’s the heat? Anyone know some that either bloom mid to late summer or keep their color all summer?
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Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:03 pm to baldona
Toss a handful of rusty nails on the soil by the stems and turn over the soil so they are buried under it.
That will change the color of the blooms. If your plant produces pink blooms, they will gradually shift to blue with some being 2 toned until the iron works its way into the plants system.
I did this to a bunch of hydrangeas at a house I had years ago after hearing about adding iron to the soil.
That will change the color of the blooms. If your plant produces pink blooms, they will gradually shift to blue with some being 2 toned until the iron works its way into the plants system.
I did this to a bunch of hydrangeas at a house I had years ago after hearing about adding iron to the soil.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 11:54 pm to baldona
Landscape architect recommended endless summer/summer crush a few years back when I replaced my front yard plants. Couldn't locate any and planted nikko blue.
Online images of the summer crush are impressive - that might be what you're looking at.
Little lime and limelight panicles in my neighborhood seem to keep their blooms through the summer.
Online images of the summer crush are impressive - that might be what you're looking at.
Little lime and limelight panicles in my neighborhood seem to keep their blooms through the summer.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 12:29 am to baldona
Hydrangeas are a shade-loving plant. Morning sun or filtered sun are ideal.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 6:36 am to Spankum
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Hydrangeas are a shade-loving plant. Morning sun or filtered sun are ideal.
Yeah what’s funny about this is everyone says it, I’ve found out that’s not really that true. I planted multiple varieties in my front yard and they really didn’t do well. Then I trimmed my live oak, and they all took off. They don’t like direct sun all day, but they do like direct or at most slightly shaded for half the day.
This was for some large oak leaf varieties and the smaller leaf ones also. I would generally assume like many plants the larger the leaf the more shade they prefer.
I don’t think sun is my issue, it maybe fertilizer to be honest but I think it’s more the right variety.
Like I said there’s some white ones on the golf course that are basically full sun and have been blooming all summer. I’m going to go knock on their door and gay it up to find out I guess.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 9:37 am to baldona
bright light but not full sun, for oak leaf anyway (which is the native hydrangea). They naturally grow on the forest floor where the canopy is open but are shaded on the sides
Posted on 8/18/26 at 9:47 am to Spankum
My limelights thrive in a lot of sun. Just have to keep their base watered.
They do have some shade in the very early morning sun, but from 9 am to dusk they get hit. They are in a low spot in our yard that stays moist and I threw mulch down and they exploded.
They do have some shade in the very early morning sun, but from 9 am to dusk they get hit. They are in a low spot in our yard that stays moist and I threw mulch down and they exploded.
This post was edited on 8/18/26 at 9:49 am
Posted on 8/18/26 at 9:57 am to baldona
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Like I said there’s some white ones on the golf course that are basically full sun and have been blooming all summer.
These are likely the “limelight hydrangea series” Hydrangea paniculata. In Louisiana, designated as a Louisiana Superplant by the LSU AgCenter and horticultural wholesalers. LINK. Does exceedingly well throughout the South.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:57 am to baldona
Add on:
I trimmed mine back a couple years ago and now i only get a few blooms on them vs used to be loaded. Bushes have regenerated and are about 4-5’ diameter.
Any suggestions?
I trimmed mine back a couple years ago and now i only get a few blooms on them vs used to be loaded. Bushes have regenerated and are about 4-5’ diameter.
Any suggestions?
Posted on 8/19/26 at 8:37 am to Theotherpikecounty
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I trimmed mine back a couple years ago and now i only get a few blooms on them vs used to be loaded. Bushes have regenerated and are about 4-5’ diameter.
Some of them bloom on new growth, some on old growth, some on both. But if its been a couple of years that's abnormal for sure
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