Hydrangea pruning: Don't sweat it!

[@Christie-gp2cy]

Excellent tutorial. Yours is the first video I have watched that shows EXACTLY how to prune the branches properly. Thank you for sharing, I hope to see more of your videos soon.

[@MrPattywac]

Thank you for taking the stress out of this! I was curious about new wood vs. old wood pruning... I think that's where my stress came in to play!!

[@heathermacdonald6404]

I like the way you get right into it instead of repeating yourself over and over. Thanks, so much!

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello Heather

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hope you are safe from the virus?

[@Nessabfly]

Oh my goodness I knew I loved you the second you said “it’s hard to screw it up.” Thanks for being real!!

[@TheImpatientGardener]

It's true! Our plants can overcome a lot of our gardener's silliness.

[@SPIndy72]

Thank you for this content. Especially, thank you for the "don't stress out" validation at the beginning. I appreciate you putting out these videos.

[@michellew.7669]

Most informative and easy to follow video I've watched yet

[@feyrie]

I also lov e that you take it down to a half, no wonder in your new video its so bushy and pretty! the blooms are perfect size too!

[@suzanneh3879]

This the best video I've seen on how to prune hydrangeas. I've been stressing about cutting back my giant hydrangea, but I feel confident about taking care of this year. Thank you!

[@dianesantelli4429]

Thank you for your concise, uncomplicated, well explained tutorial. I was always a bit confused re the old vs new wood growth, but I finally understand it!

[@stormysampson1257]

Finally, someone who is educated about pruning! Excellent excellent...thank you.

[@robinparker23]

I love your video! You quickly get through the information without a lot of non-relevant conversation. THANKS!!! You’re now my garden go to, glad I found this video!

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hi how are you doing

[@LaurenBoston59]

Two of my favorite things in the world! Newfies and hydrangeas! The sad thing is my hydrangeas outlived my newfies but they both brought joy and beauty to my world.

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hi Lauren

[@momcation9786]

Thank you for your fun tips on pruning hydrangeas! You're on point when you show us how to have fun with gardening! Loved it!

[@feyrie]

this video was released on my birthday, it is a sign that I follow this method for my limelight!!

[@chriswright6425]

I have been worrying about how to prune/take care of our new hydrangeas planted last year and hopefully the mild winter will have helped and with your video we have new found confidence!!! Thank you for such a great video and information!!!!

[@kumu2613]

So happy to see a gardener with a light hearted stress free attitude 🙏 gardening is to relieve stress and if we get stressed out about even this.....then, it is not really worth it. Many thanks. Subscribed. Following 👍

[@EccentricNature]

I love how you cover lots of various problems and details about how to deal with them.

[@lashandriasanderson6162]

This is just what I needed. You made this look seamless! Thank you!

[@JoseMartinez-df2db]

I cut my hydrangea super low too and the blooms the next summer were GIGANTIC!!

[@gummibearscrime]

I have 9-10 foot Limelight’s that i prune by a 1/3 every year. I think it is time to hard prune bc they are almost TOO big. I was scared until recently 😅😅😅

[@mjpsew]

So glad I found your video. Very helpful to finally know the proper way to trim my different hydragea.

[@luciepaul1]

Luv your No nonsense approach. Thank you for sharing

[@christinearmington]

I love hydrangeas, but I’m here for the Newfies! 😆🥰

[@pennyduncan5980]

Yeah! A Zone 5 gardener!

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello penny

[@debrariley2057]

My kind of gardener. Lovely video.

[@ChadAmI80]

Thanks for the tips! We bought a house last spring and the previous owner had planted several Hydrangeas around the property. I had no idea what to do with them. I am glad I just let the blooms die and I didn't do anything. Now its Valentine's Day and I know that end of next month I can probably look at pruning them once they get some swollen buds.

[@heatherroth7444]

Hello from Central WI! Thank you for the straightforward and helpful info.

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello how are you

[@susanherrick5570]

Very reassuring. I love the low stress approach! Thank you!

[@janicesisson4509]

Just found your site and going back to watch all your videos. Glad I found you. Now I can watch you and Garden Answer.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Janice Sisson I’m glad you found me, Janice! It’s fine to watch Garden Answer (well, obviously) because we actually garden in the same zone but Laura’s garden is SO far ahead of mine at this time of the year. It’s fun to see the differences.

[@janicesisson4509]

Yes Laura’s garden is ahead of yours but I think she’s having an unusually early spring. I’ve watched her for years and she’s usually on pace with ours. I too am zone 5. I live in Windsor Ontario Canada, across the river from Detroit, Michigan.

[@zehraoksoy1137]

Love your method. Very useful information. Thank you. From Turkey.

[@kimberlyj4538]

Love the cameo by your darling dog!

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello Kimberly

[@melissasiegel3486]

I love your take on gardening. I feel so much better about how I accidentally hacked at my hydrangea a year ago. Now I'm not worried that I ruined it!

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Hydrangeas are tough shrubs and pretty darn forgiving. It’ll be great and if you make a mistake pruning, there’s always next year!

[@TheImpatientGardener]

@@Endurance00501 The worst thing that will happen is that you may not have flowers this year or not until late in the season. But you haven’t killed it.

[@Endurance00501]

@TheImpatientGardener Does it come back thicker overall? Or starting over on the branches and blooms?

[@beckysmith7142]

Hi, looking for info on how to prune my hydrangeas, I found you, and I am so glad I did!!! This was a great video, full of informative information! One thing I would like to mention, my sister-in-law found out the hard way, that it is a good idea to wear safety glasses when pruning shrubs like hydrangeas. Luckily, she did not lose her eye or her eyesight in that eye, but she did have a significant injury. Just saying! Thank you so much for sharing, I have subscribed, and will go back and watch your videos that I have missed, and will look forward to future additions!

[@valeriestrickler6902]

Where have you been all my KZbin life. Thank you for such a simple explanation. I see you also like, Proven Winners. I love, love, love their flowers. I think you're great, and I just subscribed to your channel. Looking forward to more videos.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Thanks for such a nice comment, Valerie!

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hi

[@TheAndrewFarthing]

came for the info, stayed for those adorable newf babies. thanks for the helpful information!

[@TaylorTiree]

Thank you for this wonderfully informative video. Watching from London 🇬🇧

[@kellyy4525]

Thanks so much for the advice! I planted a bunch of new hydrangeas this past year and wasn't sure how to prune them. Now I feel ready to tackle the job!

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Great! Glad to be of help. Go a little light on the pruning while it's still getting established.

[@KellyLehman]

Terrific video . good job

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello how are you

[@corinnemontgomery8325]

Thank you for the information. My daughter has Hydrangeas in her yard and has asked me for some advice in getting them ready for winter. We are now going to wait until just before the snow melts.

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello Corinne

[@kfb5583]

Great video, Thank you! Love your pups, my daughter has one!

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hi Kathy

[@seriouslyreally5413]

You are so wonderful! Nothing has to be picture perfect and they grow beautifully in spite of your level of experiance, available time, winter snow load and deer hacking on it.

[@lettersandlove]

Fantastic information Erin! Have a great spring!

[@melodymacken9788]

Absolutely brilliant. Simple and to the point. from new zealand.

[@gd3515]

Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge. 🙂

[@hollynunes5359]

Thanks ! I grew up with them everywhere in my moms yard(up north new england) n now im on the west coast of florida, sarasota area, and thought Id try them out here. Wish me luck🌻🌼😁🌷😁

[@BroadwayGardener]

I’m so nervous about my 1st hydrangea! This is so helpful

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Nikki’s Drama Greenhouse You’ll do great! No worries, they are tough plants.

[@maureengreen617]

Excellent video! I grow all varieties in my garden on Cape Cod. Your advice is spot on-- don't worry, go for it and be amazed each summer that what looks so scalped in March is shockingly prolific by July and August. I notice you didn't cover macrophyllas, probably owing to your zone 5 climate. I couldn't grow them in Syracuse, zone 5, either. Cape Cod is a 7. Keep up the good work. I especially loved your approach to clean up. I'm the same. Phase 1 is prune the plant. Phase 2 is take the branches to the dump--whenever I get around to it. Here's to a great 2019 in the yard.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Thank you! I have a few macrophyllas around but most of them are not long for this world (at least in my yard). It’s just such a hard place for them to be bud hardy and why bother with that when there are so many reliable bloomers? I’m a terribly inefficient gardener, but I can only concentrate on one job at a time so I end up making a mess and then cleaning up a mess. Good to know I’m not alone.

[@barbll000]

Great video taking the fear out of this task.

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello Barbara

[@saradowns5549]

I LOVE YOUR ATTITUDE! and your videos. My kind of gardener for sure! "Don't sweat it!" philosophy gives me confidence. Your pace is perfect! Some videos are WAY too long and they talk so slow..."I'm not an idiot" ...ya know? I can understand something if you talk fast, and, in fact, if you talk slow, I'm more apt to give up because my mind wanders in between the presenter's words. Ha! Thanks so much. You've been a great help!!! :) I'll be looking for more videos from you as I have more gardening questions.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Thank You!

[@junewrogg6137]

I have Limelights and I trim before spring, but kept meaning to look up if I was doing it correct. So thank you! I live in western WI

[@bradlyharvey1418]

Just what I needed. I have no clue what I’m doing, so I’m just going to have at it whilst not freaking out.

[@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane]

Great information, thank you!

[@lonshelton5129]

Love your presentation style, thank you.

[@1ClusterChuck]

Another great video. Thank You. It helps me be able to send the vid to my clients so they understand what I'm doing to their Hydrangeas.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

So glad you enoyed it! I hope it helps your clients too.

[@nicholepiper2550]

OMG! Thank you for making that super easy to understand. You’re the first one and I so appreciate you! Heading out to the yard now.

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello

[@jeansweezie6241]

Excellent! I have been looking for info like this

[@Christine83507]

Thank you so much!! My hydrangea is all over the place. I can’t wait for after winter to follow this method. Turns out I was doing it wrong 😂

[@18betz]

Thanks for the pruning info! LOVE THE NEWFY's TOO.

[@johncrawford5856]

You did a great job. I now know what to do. and you made so easy to do==much complicated

[@casenmolly]

Thank you very much for sharing your experience.

[@tracyvonalmen7820]

Just found your channel and subscribed tonight. Love your name and your relaxed attitude!!! “Not a high stress situation.” From Chicago suburb.🙂

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Hi there neighbor to the south! :) Thanks for subscribing and saying hello.

[@mabelgoddard5813]

Wonderful information! Thank you for sharing!

[@maryodriscoll5378]

Thank you, n l love ur dog 2.

[@tomholmes1350]

Love your ‘no stress’ approach to pruning!

[@trueworks7361]

I cut the dried blooms with some stem early December and spray paint them, and use for a winter wreath. Then come spring, I give the bush a good pruning.

[@PamelaGroppe]

Great info! I have to prune mine in Fall as our snows are so wet and heavy (it is also called Sierra Cement) and we get so much of it it just rips the stems off.

[@LindaLuxable]

We have wet snows in Indiana. Here it is October, and I have not cut the blooms off, but they are heavy. I've never had this many blooms before. Can I trim some of the largest blooms without hurting spring's new growth?

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

@@LindaLuxable That depends on what type of hydrangea it is. Is it a hydrangea that only blooms on old wood or on new as well? I do cut just the blooms off of my hydrangea that blooms only on old wood, but nothing further below. I will prune back my Paniculata hydrangeas next month, November. I need to do some videos since we have unique conditions (the wet heavy snows) and have to prune a bit differently.

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello how are you

[@jaaustin500]

Thanks! I have the first kind you pruned and was wondering how to get it under control next spring. Love your Newfoundlanders as well! :-)

[@yvettele5518]

Thanks much for the tips...nice job!

[@upacrk11]

Nice delivery! Thanks!

[@MoonLightOnWater1]

First video that showed exactly where to prune: THANK YOU! Oh oh….I just planted my little like hydrangeas in June and they grew beautifully. I cust a few flowers according to another videos few days prior to a heatwave. After the heatwave the remaining flowers turned crispy and ALL the leaves fell off….I was heartbroken! I sure hope my plant survives. The leaves are now growing back, but I see no signs of the flowers😢

[@MarySmith-hb2uu]

Thanks for teaching me I only have 1 flower blooming this year of dividing 3 bushes!

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hi Mary

[@BroadwayGardener]

Great tips!!! I’m hoping for tons of blooms this season 🤞🏾

[@dallastaylor5479]

It looks like you could almost make that hydrangea into a tree form. Glad to see a new video from you. I just got the BoBo hydrangea last year, geeked to see hoe it does this year.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Marcia W Bono has done so well for me! And yes, if I had started pruning that Limelight into a standard (tree form) several years ago I guess I could. But I like the sort of vase shape it’s taken on.

[@GardenDoodles]

Thank you. This was very helpful!

[@myquiltshop]

Thank you! I'm not scared any more!!

[@karencole3200]

Love the Newfoundland Dogs -- love my newfy's

[@on4acres]

Great video, have you done a video on how to fertilize hydrangeas?

[@CSFAV]

Great thorough information. Thank you!!!

[@bethmcgoldrick2633]

The Newfies!

[@carmenbailey8209]

You have a really nice property, lucky you 👍

[@matthewrix2164]

And dogs

[@13dmharris]

Really helpful video

[@sleepinglioness5754]

Keep the stems (the long straight ones) and make a beautiful 'star' wrapped with twine. Make them different sizes and hang them over your garage door, on your fence, on your house. Easy to make and really nice. The limelight rhodos are great for this with their long stems.

[@fancyllama5887]

Very helpful👍🏽😊

[@leahbeamon1098]

Thank you I was so lost !!!

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello how are you doing my friend

[@BanDanaGramma]

i've been so afraid to prune my hydrangeas because I was told it is easy to cut off the area that will make next year's flowers, that if I cut off an end leaf bud that would grow, then I've cut off next year's flower. From your video, it sounds like that isn't true and I can have at it! Thanks!

[@TheImpatientGardener]

BanDana Gramma So long as you’re pruning panicle (ie Limelight) or arborescens (ie Annabelle) types you’re fine. Macrophylla (ie Endless Summer) and serrata are different and you will need to prune those immediately after flowering so as to not affect the next year’s flowers.

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello 👋

[@claresabo4322]

Very informative.

[@la196]

Good info! Beautiful dogs...Newfoundlands right? Gorgeous!

[@beachnutblooms1239]

Any advice on pruning oakleaf hydrangas?

[@MrSoldierperson]

Great video!! You're funny.

[@nancyrapp5847]

I LOVE this video, and I LOVE your dogs!! I have a hydrangea (paniculata, I think) that I need to prune. How do I send you a photo, and perhaps you might identify it. I live in NC

[@moorescience]

THANK you so much!! This is wonderful.

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello Ann

[@reginabraun7448]

Thank you. Planted my first hydrangea this year.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Enjoy it!

[@taylormesa6166]

Hi! Thanks so much for this video. We just bought a house that has a lot of hydrangeas that look similar to the ones at the beginning of the video. They need to be pruned but have started to get quite a bit of leaves. Should I leave them alone or try to prune them?

[@ellenoconnor1226]

Thank you, Erin. Your videos are so helpful and your relaxed attitude adds to the enjoyment of gardening. I'm in Central New York (5b) so it's wonderful to have someone who understands cold and heavy snow. I planted some hydrangeas last year that were labeled as Annabel, but I think they might actually be Limelight. Now I know I can prune either one with the same result. Love the pups too.

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello how are you

[@nima16042]

Perfect I was wondering if I left the old school peegee hydrangea (I wanted it for it’s height) would stop flopping if I just didn’t prune it but it seems like people say that will reduce the size of blooms…so it seems I can best help support the stems next year by just giving them a judicious cut

[@kzooCAM]

great video! I just planted some bobo hydrangeas recently. this will be their first winter in my yard. Should I prune them the first year or let them kind of do their own thing for the first winter? Also, what is the correct amount of water to give these types of hydrangeas after initially planting? Thanks! your videos are very informative. Glad I found your channel.

[@geelin3623]

Oak Leaf, how is that pruned?

[@matthewrix2164]

I hope the dog(s) didn't get the blame again for the technical hitch! Love your videos! Did you clean up? I noticed that sideways glance at the end as though somebody else was going to do it ;o)

[@jennw9979]

Shoot it’s been warm and I don’t know what I’m doing so I just hacked my whole yard. I need to watch more of your videos

[@yamrector2]

Thank you so much! I love Hydrangeas but never had luck with them. I want to keep trying because I love love them! When you recommend me to buy and plant them? I live in BARILOCHE, Argentina. At this very moment it's snowing, I guess last snow of the year. Going to sprint. Here it's the third world, they only have the basic plants, not the improve ones. Thank you!

[@christiandavidsonlamore6301]

Hello how are you doing my friend

[@DennisCDill]

I admired the folding tree saw. What brand is it and would you recommend it?