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Bought a 5 gallon Vanilla Strawberry today!!!
Comments (18)Not a good summer here either Ditas for first year plants in my area either. Summer is very tough on a paniculata it's first year. True test will be next year. My VS was very floppy after it was in full bloom. My sister had more browning out of blooms problem than me this year. I read a five year study on many paniculata including the VS. They stated when it was young or hard pruned it was floppy. They stated for best results only to lightly prune to shape. Although you will not receive as large as blooms. The picture I put on the thread earlier with the Bailey Nursery people. I think they are holding up the blooms with their hands and letting them lean on them...LOL... Notice you can not see their hands in the picture. I agree no new strong cane development for mine yet either. I refuse to bundle or support anything. If it can't be done by pruning than I better be able to be happy with the look or it is out of here! LOL.. Although I can tolerate a fair amount of flopping. The biggest plus for the VS in my opinion is that it keeps reblooming all through the late summer/fall. Mine has started it's second flush of flowers. I bet none of us will have the browning out problem early in the season next year. My worry is the flopping issue again. I think it will become a winner with maturity! Just needs a few years and wasn't quite up to the advertisement. They failed to mention the flopping issue. I bet in years to come many other paniculatas will be developed from the VS. The Tickled Pink is a winner in my book also. If I had the room I would of got one. But other than being compact it did not have any new qualities over the Pink Diamond, Pinky Winky or Quick Fire that I already have. We will see the Tickled Pink used alot in people's landscape in years to come because of it's immediate results and compact size. P.S. I love the color of the canes/stems on the VS....See MoreVanilla Strawberry Hydrangea - Prunning?
Comments (4)Cutting the blooms off those stems closest to the ground should be enough pruning for those. For the upright ones, cut back to about 24-36". New branches should grow out and up from the upright stems, and new vertical stems should grow from the ones near the ground. Everyone wants a full bodied shrub; as it fills out with more branches, you can prune less and less each year. Once there are enough branches growing upright, you can simply trim the ones that stick up "too far" compared to the rest. So next year you might decide to prune the upright stems to 40", etc. depending on how many have caught up to each other. Everything you leave on the plant should get thicker with time, making for less flop, which contributes to pruning becoming less important over extended time....See MorePinky Winky and Vanilla Strawberry question
Comments (7)The Pinky will get quite large and is a very upright grower. The Vanilla I just got this year in a 5 gallon pot and is supposed to be a couple feet smaller than the Limelight. One of the main reasons it appealed to me. The buds were very upright until lately in full bloom. Defentily flopped. I read a 5 year study on many Paniculuta Hydrangeas. Both of these were included in it. They tried many different pruning techniques to both across the years. The Pinky likes a medium to hard prune and the Vanilla likes only a light pruning or it will flop. I enjoy hard pruning my Limelights for the extra large blooms and did not learn this about the Vanilla Strawberry until after I purchased it. Here is a picture right after I bought the Vanilla. Here is a promo pic of the Vanilla. Notice you can not see their hands. Because they are holding up the blooms...LOL... Here is some pics of it recently Here is a pic of my Pinky Winky...See MorePinky Winky vs. Vanilla Strawberry
Comments (9)Here in Toronto (5b) I have both PW and VS and this is their third full year in the ground right next to each other. They get full sun (about 6-7 hrs and a mix of morning and later afternoon) and both suffered in the July/August heatwaves of last year. Neither has been very impressive bloomers for me yet, but this year they are both getting some decent blooms forming right now. PW is still only about 3.5 feet tall but seems more compact and bushier. VS is about 4 feet tall now but that is because of longer, single stems that look more prone to flopping over. I have left it mostly unpruned to give the stems a chance to grow and thicken, but after this year I may prune them back to try to get a more compact shape again. So far it looks like PW is the better of the two, which is too bad because the advertised blooms on VS look so much nicer. Foliage is about the same but PW looks better overall because of it's more compact, rounded form....See Morenjmomma
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