How does Firelight hydrangea do in Zone 3b/4a?
ostrich
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Showiest rose for Z4a
Comments (17)The roses I recommended get no winter protection. Linda Campbell (in her first year) does not seem to mind the salt from the road. She's a rugosa hybrid and rugosas can handle the salt so I'm guessing in the long run she'll be just fine. As far as most beautiful low maintenance rose that meets all your criteria above I'd have to suggest (sorry, I couldn't just pick one!!!!!): Quietness (some dieback) Carefree Beauty (some dieback) Aunt Honey (some dieback, lightly fragrant) Stanwell Perpetual (a little dieback, decent repeat bloom, fragrant, one of my first roses to bloom in the spring) Hansa (very hardy, very fragrant, large shrub, rugosa) Since the once blooming old roses are some of my favorites I have to add Charles de Mills. And I still highly recommend Konigin von Danemark.. Charles The little dieback part is hard to come across unless you are getting Canadian roses, and even some of them dieback for me. As a group the majority of rugosa roses will give you hardiness, disease resistance, repeat bloom, and fragrance but they are not the showiest of roses.....See MoreHydrangea 2016
Comments (5)rouge - yours look magnificent! The one I bought a couple of years ago is rapidly fading away. There are no signs of bloom on it out there now and the shrub is looking very dwarf.... It's in the full-sun front bed - but does NOT get supplemental water! (Actually DH did do some supplemental watering in that bed earlier this week and we did finally get some decent rain on Wed. and Thurs. (23 mm. in total) but it's all too little; too late!) I was just checking my rain records - on average from Apr.-end of July we'd have had 321.34 mm. (12.65") of rain. We've been considerably below normal every month. To date we've only had 161 mm. (6.34") of rain - i.e. half our normal and a shortfall of over 6"! For those of you in naturally drier areas, I'm sure our rain this year still seems generous, but when the plants are used to a LOT more, these conditions are brutal for both garden and gardener! :-) Here's drought-stressed Bobo - it's the pathetic little shrub to the left of the dark heuchera and above the empty space (gotta plant something there!) above the VERY dwarf 'My Monet': The best hydrangeas in the front garden are the 'White Moth' which grow along the garage and also there is one at the end of the driveway border:...See MoreFire light Hydrangeas review
Comments (49)GHo/Lovemy. Circling back on this thread..... I did my * 2022* pruning on the youngest LL today. The interior canopy has the strongest branching / new wood comes really strong and will hold the blooms all season vert. On some of the younger branching, it rained the other day and it's raining today. I surveyed what stems I will want for next year to continue forming the framework *which will get cut down some in spring*, and I removed the beautiful bloom off of it. The blooms filled up 1/3 of the garbage can. Siggghhh I did not do this in former years and let Dwarnisim choose it's course. What happens IME is stems stay weighed down and don't recover. They remain either in the funky downward curve (either curve down or it does this downward curve and then a U turn back up) instead of being nice straight and vert. I do this as once the bloom is cut, instead of the stem being weighted down and not recovering later in the season, the stem reverts back vert. Also, it's also -pre mitigation- should that stem snap later in the season with the continued rains in fall and the heavy bloom I kinda consider this my early -2022- pruning/shaping strategy. Don't do it on everything, just things I want to aid in shaping....See MoreOld wood vs New wood for a few hydrangeas I just bought
Comments (8)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....See Moreostrich
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