My hydrangeas have not leafed out yet. Just starting to sprout.
You can feed your hydrangeas with an acid fertilizer when buds start to swell so that fertilizer is available as the plant leafs outs and come into its most active phase of growth.
For more information on fertilizing hydrangeas, please visit the following link:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/fertilizing-hydrangeas.htm
I had our yard cleaned up and weeded a week or so ago, and the guy who did this cut down four of my very healthy hydrangeas to about 9-10 inches from the ground. I was not at home at the time and my husband did not catch this. I couldn't believe my eyes when I found them like this. Is there anything I can do besides fertilizer, to bring them back to the beautiful shrub that they were? Is it true that they will not flower when they've been cut down so low? I appreciate any advice you can give me. Thanks. Deb Abin
Pruning instructions depends on the type of Hydrangea that you have planted.
This severe of a pruning could very well harm the shrub but if the plants were well established, they may also recover--over time.
Do not fertilize the plants until you began to see active growth.
They you can apply a all purpose fertilizer to help them.
Depending on the variety of Hydrangea, if they form flowers on old wood, you will have no flowers this season.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/prune-hydrangea-bushes-hydrangea-pruning-instructions.htm
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/fertilizing-hydrangeas.htm
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/hydrangea-not-blooming.htm
We had a freeze after my bush was almost budding. Most leaves are wilted, brown and looking dead. Is there anything I can do? They are affected all the way down the stems.
You should do nothing to your hydrangeas until the growing season is in full swing and your shrubs have shown considerable growth. They could still bloom and you don't want to interfere with that. During early summer you can better assess the extent of the damage to your shrubs and prune the dead branches back. Whether you have Hydrangea macrophylla, paniculata, querquefolia, or arborescens the advice would be the same.
It is April in NJ and my gardener just cut my entire hydrangea bush down to the ground. I had been growing this for 5-6 years and it had been blooming beautifully. What impact will this have on my plant? Will it grow back this summer? Thank you in advance for your input.
The variety of Hydrangea that you are growing does dictate the type of pruning.
Given your location, I do assume that the types you are growing bloom on old wood.
Though your shrub will not bloom this year, this aggressive prune will not likely kill the plant, just delay it's blooms until next season.
Watch for new growth and when the plant is actively growing you can lightly fertilize the Hydrangea.
Best of luck.
Do we need to cut our hydrangea bushes way back in the fall after it is done blooming?
Pruning your Hydrangea can depend on the type of Hydrangea you have planted.
Deadheading the shrubs can be done following blooming and removal of dead or damaged branches also can occur at any time.
Here is an article that will help you.
Planted Hydrangea and it has frosted and been cold. Put into ground 15 Hydrangeas last week, got frost over night and been cold since. They came in 10 gallon pots. Can I save them? Bought for a wedding happening August 20th for nice effect. John.
The tender tips of the plants and buds may be killed off. The leaves may turn purple and then black as the die off.
You can scratch your fingernail across the stems to see if they appear green underneath, if they are green, they are still alive.
Don't do any pruning right away. Allow the weather to warm and then you can access the dead parts of the plants and prune these away.
Water the plants well and you can give them a light application of a slow release fertilizer.
If you see no signs of new growth over the next few weeks, the roots could have frozen.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/growing-hydrangeas-hydrangea-care-guide.htm
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/hydrangea-winter-care-how-to-protect-hydrangeas-from-winter-cold-and-wind.htm
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/environmental/tips-for-saving-cold-damaged-plants.htm
Can I take a cutting in spring?
Recommendations are for taking your cuttings in the fall for Hydrangea propagation.
I have however taken or even been given cuttings throughout the growing season with great success.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/hydrangea-propagation.htm