is all summer beauty the same as Endless summer/endless summer BS?
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Endless Summer hydrangea ?
Comments (4)Thanks! Since I bought them from a nursery that sells Monrovia plants, I went to their website and found some good info. I'll link to it below. I noticed they mentioned feeding before spring growth. Has anyone fed theirs after this time period? I fed mine after I planted them in the containers and I'm about to give them a bit more. The alkalinity of our water is turning them purple but I'm trying to keep them blue. As Nell says, I'm sperimentin' ; ) Diana Here is a link that might be useful: monrovia site...See MoreEndless trouble with Endless Summer Hydrangeas
Comments (4)Hi Erica, I'm thinking it was a combination of more fertilizer (which they don't need the first year), the insecticide spray, and the sun! Is it possible that he tender leaves did not like the spray on them and burned in the sun! You may have to cut them back and wait for new growth, but no more bug spray and limit the sun until they get used to it. New plants in pots look great when you buy them but they don't acclimate themselves to the elements for a while. I have a bed of 6 hydrangeas in shade most of the day but they get 2/3 hours of sun in early afternoon and this year we added 3 new plants to the planter and the flowers burned to a crisp on the new ones and the older ones that had been in the ground for a year or so sailed through the heat and sun with no problems! The temps went up to low to mid 90's for several days, and all the hydrangeas in my yard wilted from the heat but the flowers perked up in the evening. Don't be afraid to prune them back if necessary, it will thicken the plant for you and you should still get some blooms later on the remontant types. Good Luck! Donna...See Moreendless summer...dead?
Comments (6)Do not feel bad; you are not the only one complaining about lack of blooms with ES in cold regions. There are many causes and they depend on whether the plant produced flower buds or not. For example, if the plant produced flower buds and you got no blooms, something obviously happened to the flower buds. Possible causes include such things as late frosts, pests like bunnies and deer who just love to eat the flower buds, lack of water killed the buds, etc. If you got no flower buds then maybe the plants got too much fertilizer, winter dried out and killed the flower buds or again, it could be that the plant is suffering from periods of dry soil followed by moist soil followed by dry soil and so forth. Too much nitrogen keeps the plant producing nice green leaves at the expense of flowers so just fertilize it once around June and leave it at that. The first thing to be aborted when there is not enough moisture will be the flower buds so try to keep the plant well mulched (3-4" of organic mulch thru the drip line) and the soil evenly watered. While the plant is dormant and the ground has not frozen, do water the plants because the roots are still growing. You can reduce waterings to once a week or once every two weeks (try giving the plant one gallon of water per watering). In the summer months, check the soil more often to make sure the soil is not drying out. You should have to water more frequently now than you did in Spring but then again, you will need to reduce the watering when temperatures go down in the Fall. To determine if you need to water, try using the finger method early in the morning for 2-3 weeks: insert a finger into the soil to a depth of 4". Then water when the soil feels dry or almost dry; also, make a note in a calendar when you watered the plant. After 2-3 weeks of doing this, review your notes in the wall calendar and determine every how many days did you have to water. Then set the sprinkler to water 1 gallon of water on the same frequency (every 3 days or every 4 days or....). If the temperatures change a lot up/down and stay there, use the finger method again. Luis...See MoreEndless, Endless Summer
Comments (11)I have had the same luck with Endless Summer Hydrangea as Jackz41!! Endless Summer is rated as Zone 4. In northern Wisconsin, I saw that many people did not have good luck with Endless Summer blooming before mid-July up here, this could be a problem elsewhere in the country too. I have over 65 roses so I took a wintering trick from my roses to get Endless Summer to bloom early! I bend the plants completly over and hold them down with bricks or larger rocks, in early November after a hard freeze(this can be hard as the shrubs get bigger, but you can do it carefully) I then cover them lightly with oak leaves and let snow fall on them! As we get lots of snow up here it has worked well for winter protection so the tips do not freeze! I have not had any mold problems with this trick! I have been growing Endless Summer since they first came out on the market, I have seven of them some just planted 1.5 ago. The older plants are around 3.5-4'high-4' wide. They get 4-5 hours of direct sunlight and filtered for several more hours, I also fetilize them with the same fertilizer I use for roses in lesser amounts. They start blooming in the middle of June with lots of blooms in all colors depending on your soil. I just add nail filings to make some of them more blue and leave the rest of the plants alone so I get colors from blue to lavender, purple and pink! Later in summer the mature blooms turn more green, then in fall they take on a burgandy hue with the green. They are really pretty, hardy and long blooming and great cut flowers when dryed as they mature in the Fall. Along with my pee-gee and several annabelle's (my hydrangea work horse) I love my Endless summer hydrangea's just as much as my roses!!...See MoreEmbothrium
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