Putting my Endless Summers to Bed
Molly D. Zone4B
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Endless trouble with Endless Summer Hydrangeas
Comments (4)Hi Erica, I'm thinking it was a combination of more fertilizer (which they don't need the first year), the insecticide spray, and the sun! Is it possible that he tender leaves did not like the spray on them and burned in the sun! You may have to cut them back and wait for new growth, but no more bug spray and limit the sun until they get used to it. New plants in pots look great when you buy them but they don't acclimate themselves to the elements for a while. I have a bed of 6 hydrangeas in shade most of the day but they get 2/3 hours of sun in early afternoon and this year we added 3 new plants to the planter and the flowers burned to a crisp on the new ones and the older ones that had been in the ground for a year or so sailed through the heat and sun with no problems! The temps went up to low to mid 90's for several days, and all the hydrangeas in my yard wilted from the heat but the flowers perked up in the evening. Don't be afraid to prune them back if necessary, it will thicken the plant for you and you should still get some blooms later on the remontant types. Good Luck! Donna...See MoreIs it time to prune my Endless Summer? (pic)
Comments (6)Good AM Ostrich - WOW!!! I'm not as picky about the size of blooms as much as the ability to hold her head up proudly! I'd take both of course - I've had to stake up & corral ES#1 - the multi-pastel- she's only 2.5' tall. How small is small blooms? F&E also just 2.5 tall (more compact) has less blossoms about 10 (perhaps small clusters are forming) & really huge, I think (8x10") but able to hold her head up (goes into wilts but never arches. BB has large/plentiful blossoms & has sturdier limbs like F&E. Would pruning ala George's method thicken the ES's limbs or will age, eventually do it w/ cotton seed mill's help? BTW - my tradescantia is quite an 'invader' here, I'm surprised anything can crowd him - I've had to move, corral & thin - got himself tight as an eggroll now in his corral!!! Can't wait to see what you did, lately in your Kidney Isle. That's usually what I do while waiting for bushes to fill-out & grow ... Columbine is a favorite for temps - 'love their foliage & Lavender for wafts of fragrance; annuals too - Verbenas, Lantanas (of course Impatience in shades) to invite Hummers! Â:)...See MoreEndless, Endless Summer
Comments (11)I have had the same luck with Endless Summer Hydrangea as Jackz41!! Endless Summer is rated as Zone 4. In northern Wisconsin, I saw that many people did not have good luck with Endless Summer blooming before mid-July up here, this could be a problem elsewhere in the country too. I have over 65 roses so I took a wintering trick from my roses to get Endless Summer to bloom early! I bend the plants completly over and hold them down with bricks or larger rocks, in early November after a hard freeze(this can be hard as the shrubs get bigger, but you can do it carefully) I then cover them lightly with oak leaves and let snow fall on them! As we get lots of snow up here it has worked well for winter protection so the tips do not freeze! I have not had any mold problems with this trick! I have been growing Endless Summer since they first came out on the market, I have seven of them some just planted 1.5 ago. The older plants are around 3.5-4'high-4' wide. They get 4-5 hours of direct sunlight and filtered for several more hours, I also fetilize them with the same fertilizer I use for roses in lesser amounts. They start blooming in the middle of June with lots of blooms in all colors depending on your soil. I just add nail filings to make some of them more blue and leave the rest of the plants alone so I get colors from blue to lavender, purple and pink! Later in summer the mature blooms turn more green, then in fall they take on a burgandy hue with the green. They are really pretty, hardy and long blooming and great cut flowers when dryed as they mature in the Fall. Along with my pee-gee and several annabelle's (my hydrangea work horse) I love my Endless summer hydrangea's just as much as my roses!!...See MoreBlacks spots on my Endless Summer Hydrangeas?
Comments (6)Terry,the exact time to rebloom is hard to predict and severely affected with newly planted shrubs. Wholesalers made the plant awaken at "the wrong time" so the plant would be blooming as soon as the nursery put it on sale. So, give it more time and do not prune. It may surprise you later on when the temps have gone down. The spots are a common fungal infection called leaf spot or Cercospora Leaf Spot. Usually caused by the presence of the fungi and by overhead watering (manually or by sprinklers). Common "clean sanitary" suggestions: Try to water early in the morning only and water the soil, never the leaves. Clear any plant debris from under the shrub. Do not overwater so the area is not humid. Separate the shrubs from others to improve air flow between plants. Pick up leaves/blooms that fall and throw them in the trash. Do the same when the shrub goes dormant in the fall. Do not add the leaves/blooms to the compost but throw them in the trash instead. Drought and low humidity suppresses the problems until late summer so it is common to see it start to crop up more now. You can cut the most affected leaves if aesthetically unpleasing; not sure if the plant will develop a replacement now or wait until Spring. You can also apply fungicides but since the shrubs are about to go dormant soon anyway, it is tough to decide if you want to buy $$$ the fungicides and use them or not. For effective control with a fungicide, apply it as soon as the leaf spots are detected. So you could apply them now and earlier in the season next season. See below for suggested fungicides. Browse down to where it talks about cercospora leaf spot. http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-1212/ANR-1212.pdf Luis...See MoreMolly D. Zone4B
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