Steve, When was the last time you re-potted? Ideally, you should re-pot every six months as the soil gets worn, nutrients are used up and the pH may be affected. Have you fertilized? Plants get hungry like we do. Re-pot and remove all brown, yellow and off-green leaves. Their chlorophyll factories have shut down and are no longer of any use to your plant. This yellowing is a natural occurrence as leaves age and die off. Your violet will be much smaller but your center leaves look good. Re-pot in a smaller pot, one-third the size of your plant, (yes, your pot will be very small). Since it appears you only have one violet, get a small bag of AV soil and a small bag of perlite. Mix the perlite to about a one-third ratio to the soil. Do not fertilize for a while as the soil usually has fertilizer in it. It will say on the bag. Put your plant where it will get better light, not sun, than it has been getting. You should begin to see bloom after a re-pot and a light adjustment. It sounds like a hassle but it really isn't! Good luck! Linda

ES blooms on new wood also, so don't worry. I would not prune again until it warms up and the plant decides to do what it wants to do. After it is up and growing well, then you can prune back to live wood. My oak leaf hydrangeas appear to have weathered the cold snap also. I am actually looking forward to mowing grass and playing in the mud again. Still nasty frost this morning, with snow in the offing. Humpft!

The bad winter has set back that kind of Hydrangea. The Limelight Hydrangea is a paniculata which is not effected by the winter so much.

I, too have Hydrangeas not blooming. I have a 3 year old mature hydrangea which has bloomed the first 3 years and not this year. This was the first year it didn't bloom. It is green as can be, no obvious bugs or infestation and I have been regularly watering it. I have another that hasn't bloomed either. My endless summer hydrangea has been blooming and is still in bloom. I also bought a hydrangea at Easter from my church that was in bloom at that time. ( it was forced ) I planted in the ground, eventually cut the spent blooms and thought I would have to wait a couple of years because it was quite small. I would say the pot was a 8 inch pot. Regardless, that is the plant with a very tiny blue bud!! My neighbor and I had a conversation that his Hydrangea which is usually loaded with flowers has about 5 or 6 blooms. I am wondering too if the extreme temperatures could be the reason. All of my plants are in part shade. Good Luck