How to turn a Shrub into a Tree - Update - Tree Form Hydrangea

First Video - • How to Tree Form a Shrub
How to Make a Hydrangea Tree Form Update - Tree Form a Shrub - In this video I show a follow up to how to tree form a shrub. I use a Hydrangea paniculata as an example.
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[@JimPutnam]

This is the first video kzbin.info/www/bejne/maW8fJh3irWenrc. This can be down with lots of different shrubs. Thanks for watching!

[@italishgirl5601]

Where have you been all my life!?!?!? I’ve never been able to find a such a clear, simple tutorial on training hydrangea into a tree. Thank you sir

[@sherryo.6600]

Absolutely beautiful!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and making it feel reachable for anyone who wants to do this. 🤗🎉

[@almamcculloch2890]

Am attempting the tree Monday.

[@amynelsongreen3243]

Oh happy day, a video all about the tree form hydrangea! I am following your tree forming process with my own in my yard. I just happened to have a new limelight well-suited for this when you first released the first video. So glad to have your expertise, and simple approach, as a guide. Thanks, Jim!

[@undefinedtygerpath4096]

This was super helpful. I've got a Chinese snowball viburnum I'm trying to tree shape like the one Linda Vater has in her garden. I'm not trying to make it a single trunk, but limit it to three trunks and not let any more than three branches come off any of those higher up. It's coming along. It didn't bloom this year probably because of the pruning, but it's healthy. I just want to be able to plant shorter things under its canopy.

[@susanbaker2796]

Linda Vater's Chinese Snowball is stunning. Good luck with yours!

[@mt2766]

Wish I could grow it in my zone. Lucky you! It will be gorgeous.

[@GardenDoodles]

Yes! Planning on doing this with our viburnum opulous Roseum also.

[@jjooeegg1]

@@GardenDoodles can I do the same with an autumn jazz vibernum.? I like the coloring on them in fall. But I’m open to what type of vibernum or shrub for another 6 or so feet above the privacy fence I have . All for more privacy while having the cool looking branches below . Which also allows under planting . Thanks

[@GardenDoodles]

@@jjooeegg1 You should be able to do this with many shrubs and trees. Just strip / clip off the leaves and twiggy branches from the bottom part of the plant. We did this with our Arrowwood viburnum even though it has lots of stems and it opened up the bottom for us to underplant. You can also selectively eliminate any stems that aren’t growing in the direction you want. We did this with our magnolia tree, cherry tree and Japanese maple tree also. You can get a glimpse of them in our longer garden tour videos.

[@jeangardensinIllinois]

I did this to my hydrangea bush this spring from your instructions last year. I love it. It’s just about to bloom. Thank you for all your inspiration!!

[@32dras]

And you achieve this in practically one growing season? Great! I'm from Europe, Croatia, we don't have large selection of standard or tree shaped hydrangeas, didn't find anybody grow then, only few retailers selling them and they cost around 50$, on the other hand, you can find all kinds of shrub shaped paniculatas for 8,9 or 10$. You saved me some money with this video, buy regular and grow standard by yourself and invest price difference in some other plants. Only don't know should I tnx you or Erin Impatient gardener where I saw you recently, didn't know for your channel before.

[@susanbaker2796]

Thanks for the update and additional instruction on your Dr. Dirr hydrangea standard. I have been following closely as I love this type of creative gardening. It's very satisfying.

[@SteveL2012]

This is very helpful content. I am seeing a lot of limelights looking leftover and scraggly at the big box stores. They are certain to be on sale soon, and this inspired me to find one to save and take a shot at forming it into a tree. Thanks, Jim!

[@dia9491]

Hey Jim, speaking of hydrangeas. I wanted to let you know my mountain hydrangea is healthy and blooming again. I always find it amazing how plants can heal. It got sunburned badly, we thought it was done. Now it’s getting afternoon sun and light shade most of the day. It’s happy as a clam. Thanks for all the hydrangea videos, they really have helped me. I’m loving this tree formed hydrangeas. I hope to also do a free form when I get some shade.

[@deechiodo6738]

Great explanation and demonstration! Thanks kindly!

[@ytubechannel997]

Very helpful tutorial. Love the shout out for Tardiva hydrangeas.

[@dylan8285]

Those flowers on it are so huge and beautiful kinda like the more open airyness between the blooms. Also your best bet for a more permeant stake is probably a T- post. That way its always there if you do need to tie it to it

[@jaqmackie]

I didn’t realise you could do that to hydrangea. I’ve got to try this 💚

[@payton8613]

Thank you so much for this content. It is exactly what I have been wanting to figure out for my hydrangea. You are very good at clearly explaining steps in a process. 😀👍🌱🌸

[@manycats9943]

How would this be handled with a shrub that is mature? I have a nine bark that is 3 years old and it's already over 6 ft tall. I'm thinking it might make a nice "tree" for my small yard. Maybe you can discuss in another video sometime. Thanks as always for the good gardening information you provide.

[@jeanniecollier6763]

Always so informative and I am learning so much!! Thanks, Jim!

[@barbarawalker9403]

Thanks for sharing your process. You make everything look so easy! Love your channel. My Texas garden/ yard has pretty much burned this year in this 105+ temp. Bummer.

[@JimPutnam]

Ouch. Sorry to hear that. It is relentless in a lot of places this year

[@imaginecastles]

Very helpful and clear.

[@rachelsgarden]

I’d love to tree form my camellia japonica the leaders are about 5 ft tall and there are lots of lower branches so I’m not sure where to start. Would also love to tree form some osmanthus fragrans along the edge of a 4ft iron fence!

[@deedeewohler3726]

I have a Little Lime Light that has been in the ground a year. I don’t have a ‘center’ branch. Can I form it with 3 branches like a multi trunk crepe myrtle? Just limb it up from the ground?

[@julesdavis1845]

This step-by-step is so useful. Thank you. Also, I’m thinking a could use this technique with a Blue Chiffon rose of Sharon.

[@doreengelina]

Such a helpful video! All of your videos are 👍 Question - will you reach a point that you won't trim it at all? Or will this always need some form of pruning to maintain? Thanks in advance!

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Gorgeous Jim 🌸💕🌸

[@dianegentry3255]

Thanks Jim! I plan to try this.

[@JJ-fm3hr]

brilliant!! excellent information!

[@sarahthompson529]

Can I cut the lowest branches off of a big full oak leaf hydrangea? Some branches sit on the ground and are all over the place. Will it affect next season’s bloom on the branches I don’t cut? Thanks for your videos! I get a lot of info from them.

[@dnm5373]

Thank you

[@lauraconnolly5897]

Will a viburnum tinus pruned as a standard shape ever grow back into a rounded Bush with lower branching??

[@kathrynmettelka7216]

Sometimes you want a thick hedge, and sometimes you want a tree form that looks airy and.with opportunities to plant beneath the tree.

[@annwoleben5439]

Thank you for sharing.

[@JimPutnam]

Thanks for watching!

[@lianagilbert61]

I’m trying to prune my purple smoke Bush into a tree form. looking more Dr Seuss.

[@amyeagen]

Just this week I was thinking about doing this to my very healthy and full sweetshurb. I have done a search and can't find any examples. Is this possible for this plant? Or would it be better to do it in the style of crepe myrtle? Thank you in advance!

[@craigparker5959]

Can I use this technique to form a Vitex?

[@annegranger6667]

Thank you for all of your help and ideas. I would love to have several of these lining my driveway. Purchased 4 Strawberry and Cream in 4 inch containers. All of the primary stems have been pruned to about 6 inches. Can I still train into tree form, since all of the grow points on the main stems are pruned? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Love how yours is turning out. 😍😍😍

[@JimPutnam]

Yes, just train one of the new branches to be straight 7simg a piece of bamboo. Next year cut away the other low branches

[@annegranger6667]

Will do. Thank you so much for your help and response.

[@Flower_hoarder]

🌿🍃TH🌳NKS‼️🍃🌿

[@cathyplantlover2862]

I have a pee gee hydrangea can I Do THAT With it too?

[@JimPutnam]

Pee Gee is one of the best for this technique

[@maureenmckenna5220]

Would like to try this with a two year old, still small, lilac bush. Possible?

[@mobleythomas]

How much time did it take?

[@jjooeegg1]

I want to skirt a autumn jazz vibernum . So I have the cool branching effect and then privacy from 6 feet upwards . Thoughts ? Right shrub or should I choose another . Zone 5 Chicago . Mainly want it for privacy but love to have the cool branches and the space for under planting . Thanks ……….. also my fence is 6 feet how close can I go . Or do you have a better suggestion for a tree or shrub for privacy . I have a nice Ellen wilmot lilac in middle but don’t want all lilacs

[@johannawilson3807]

Thanks for doing this video! Does it matter where you make the cuts on the branches, in relation to nodes or branches already coming off of the branch you are keeping?

[@100Milllion]

I have a 10 year old bush ... How do I turn it in to a tree?

[@joannebuzzell6097]

How long does it take to actually get a tree. I’m thinking years?

[@Melinaa124]

Question: Does the final size if the original shrub still start from the ground up or does it start at the part where you started the tree? And can I do this with a prunus cistena?? Thanks in advance!!!! Love your content!!

[@JimPutnam]

Plants don't really stop growing, so think of the size on the tag as "maintainable at". It will try to get bigger regardless of how you are limbing it up

[@Melinaa124]

@@JimPutnam Ah yes! I have heard you say that before. Thank you!!

[@Ash_9]

How tall will it get in a tree form? Will it get to the 25 feet of H. pan. ‘Grandiflora’?

[@JimPutnam]

It probably would if I let it. It would need a huge trunk to let it do that though. Of course this one is from Dirr's breeding program so I have no idea. It does seem super vigorous though.

[@Ash_9]

@@JimPutnam then again, given the space you probably wouldn’t want it to get that big anyway.

[@musiktouches]

🤔ah hah. This could be interesting in my garden.

[@kso808]

Is it possible to shape any shrub into a tree?

[@JimPutnam]

Lots you can. If you have one in mind, you can likely just search tree form with the plant name and see photos of it done.

[@empresskimberly4410]

Can I do this to a very old tall established rhododendron?

[@JimPutnam]

Maybe, it will probably limb itself up in time. Might look better as a multi trunk tree form