Incrediball Hydrangeas full sun zone 6b?
Julie (KS - Zone 6B)
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Best Hydrangea for zone 5 w/full sun?
Comments (3)It can be. Here are a few thoughts. 1. To get and maintain purples, your soil has to be in a narrow layer of soil pH that is difficult ��"but not impossible- to achieve when planted on the ground. Add garden lime per label directions if your soil is already acidic. If your soil pH is already alkaline, add garden Sulphur, green sand, iron sulfate or aluminum sulfate per label directions. Your own soil will govern how well and which shades of purple you can get when you amend. 2. It is easier to control soil pH when you grow them in containers. In the ground, you could end up with purple sections in the bush⦠with other areas with a slightly different color (blue/pink) or shade of purple if some of the roots do not absorb the necessary minerals in the same amounts as other roots. 3. Named varieties with the word "purple" will produce good and deep purples. Glowing Embers, Enziandom, Purple Tiers, Purple Passion, Royal Purple, Nightingale, Mathilda Gutges, Marechal Foch and Merritt Supreme can give you nice purples. Enziandom leaves turn nice colors at the end of the growing season. Nightingale produces a lot of bloomage per stem. The named varieties given above produce blooms only in the Spring. 4. Colored re-blooming hydrangeas can also be useful but, they will not necessarily give the deep purples of the above named varieties. Example: the Endless Summer Series or the Forever and Ever Series. The good thing about rebloomers is that you get blooms at multiple times throughout the growing season and, as each set of blooms opens, you can see the result of changes to the soil pH, compared to the previous set of blooms. If new blooms in May were pink and if new blooms in June-July were blue, that means you have amended too much and need to tweak the soil pH in the opposite direction. So, it may take less time to get the purple shade that you/she want if you have colored rebloomers. 5. You can choose from many hydrangea macrophyllas or serratas but you will need to keep and eye on their winter hardiness (you are in Z5). Most if not all will need winter protection if planted outside in the ground. If planted in a container, you will need to bring the container into the garage or similar place during the winter months and water it once every week or once every two weeks. 6. Full sun exposure⦠it may cause the color not to be as deep as it could be because the sun may bleach the blooms a bit. Hydrangeas must have afternoon shade (or the leaves will suffer from too much sun) here but, your not-as-strong summer sun in NY may allow you to grow them in full sun. If no one in your zone & location comments, I would drive around looking for similar colored (blue/pink/purple) hydrangeas and see where they were planted (sun-wise) and if they had winter protection. Luis...See MoreHow much sun is too much for mophead hydrangeas in 6b?
Comments (6)Peat moss isn’t a good amendment in a garden regardless. Amending a planting hole, especially in clay soil leads to problems with water movement, often creating a bathtub effect where water doesn’t drain out of the planting hole and leads to root rot. So either plant in native soil (easiest and well supported by research) and put amendments such as mulch or compost on the surface or take the time to amend the entire bed and raise the level a bit so it drains reasonably. If you plant it a bit high in native soil and then mulch well so the root ball is well covered but not against the trunk, that will allow it to put roots into native soil or the mulch, whichever it prefers....See MoreHydrangea for full sun after 10a.m. zone 7b
Comments (4)Paniculatas are very sun tolerant. Many tend to get large so look for new introductions that are more compact (Bobo, Little Lime, Little Quickfire, Strawberry Sundae, etc.). See below: https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/hydrangea-paniculata/...See MoreRecommendations for evergreen front plantings (zone 6b, full sun)
Comments (3)Your location? In your second pic, what is that small yellowish shrub growing against the stone beyond the driveway? Also, it would help to see an overview of the whole front of the house, from the street. I think you'd be better off using only three types (plant types as well as shapes) in that bed. Use lower things in the front and sides such as Juniperus 'Mother Lode' or regular procumbens -- they will spread but stay rather low, and provide some erosion control. Think about reusing whatever that yellowish shrub is in this bed as well for a mid-size....See Moregardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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