I hate to be the bearer of bad news but yes, if you pruned GE in Spring, you cut off the flower buds that grew last August-October time period that would have bloomed now. Based on that, your GE will skip bloomage this year. Normally, you do not need to prune hydrangeas unless their size exceeds what you want in a given spot or unless you want to revitalize the plant. When you find that you do need to prune GE, (1) only prune hard a few weeks after blooming or (2) feel free to do some light pruning anytime (as long as you realize you will not get flowers from those stems). Regarding revitalization: After five years, a third of the oldest stems are pruned all the way to the ground. The next year, the second third is pruned. And on the third year, the rest of the oldest stems is pruned. Keep the plant well watered now. Bud formation should begin next month. No more fertilizers are needed for the rest of the year. If you are not sure about whether you need to water, stick a finger into the surrounding soil to a depth of two inches; water if it is dry and cut back on watering if it feels wet. Next year, you can feed the plant some manure or cottonseed meal in June. Some forms of Miracle Gro are 30% nitrogen (NPK 30-10-10) which is way too much nitrogen for these plants. For more information, see the link below. Luis Here is a link that might be useful: Fertilizing and Winter Protection

It's a Platycerium bifurcata, looks great. They're not native to Mexico so it would have been a garden plant there. Mounting boards are needed when they're small to get them started. As they get larger they can "swallow up" the mount but still be okay provided the support they're suspended by is still good. Tie it up with something durable, the nest fronds will cover it up fairly quickly.

Timing of the flowering will depend heavily on location. In luis' very southerly location hydrangeas may well bloom in spring but further north, they won't start blooming until later into the summer. In my area - pretty far north - the only hydrangeas blooming before the end of June are those purchased already in bloom from nurseries or greenhouses!! And with a later overall boom, it is tricky to tell old wood flowers from those produced on new wood. There is no lapse between the two but rebloomers or those that flower on new wood as well will continue to produce flower buds (broccoli) late into the season, often continuing to bud and flower as late as October. Two extremes of location - two very different bloom cycles :-) Most others wll fall somwhere in between these two.

So we are 9 days before closing. My husband and I did a drive by the house this week. We wanted to see if there was any kind of antennas on top of the roof. While driving by we noticed the two 40 plus year old apple trees have been cut down in the last week. My husband grew up in this house from 1989 to 2009 that's how we know there 40 plus years old. So we get ahold of our realtor that morning absolutely livid. He contacts the seller realtor twice that day both times the sellers realtor came back and said my sellers did not cut them down. A few hours goes by I go to do drive by the house again just by chance to see if anybody's out there finishing cutting them. Low and behold there's a man out there with a truck and trailer cutting the rest of the wood up and hauling the wood away. Mind you at this point the seller has told my realtor twice that it was not them that had them cut down. So here I am thinking that this is just some stranger illegally cutting these gorgeous apple trees on a property that I take ownership of in 9 days. I confronted the man he said the caretaker of the land was given permission to give him permission to cut them down by the owners. After that I get back in my vehicle and my realtor calls me stating that the owners just sent them a message finally admitting that they had the trees cut down because they were infested with ants and disease and thought that us the buyers would have an issue with them. There's a 50 foot plus completely dead tree that wasn't even touched or talked about. We live in a very small community last night I'm driving back to my house and I see the same truck with the wood on a trailer at a gouse in town with two huge smokers next to my cut down trees. Can the sellers do this what is the repercussions I don't even know where to begin or who I should contact. Please help any advice would be great!!