Panicle Hydrangea Garden Tour in Mid-August

[@sawam4086]

Awesome, and I loved each second of this video....thanks for the useful information.

[@GardenSanity]

My pleasure, and I'm so happy you enjoyed this video! 😊

[@annabodhi38]

Awe, you made my heart sing. Thank you for the video, and all your hard work.

[@GardenSanity]

Well you made my morning Anna! Thank you so much for your comment, as I'm so happy to share my own joy in gardening! 💕😊

[@jessicakillian3738]

I love the thick panicles like limelight...quickfire fab....but lately ive been pining for a looser habit as in pinky winky, regular quickfires

[@GardenSanity]

You’ll love Pinky Winky if you’re looking for a looser habit Jessica! 👍 If you want to learn more about them, I have a new video covering their care, growing requirements, height/width, pruning, and how they look through each season year round. 🌸🌿 They are my favorite panicle hydrangea! 🩷

[@jjjohnston545]

I am not bothered by the lawn mower sound. It’s represents an active neighborhood where people care about the property.

[@GardenSanity]

Hi JJ, When I was editing the video, listening in my headphones, the mower and blower sounds were getting closer and louder and I was beginning to almost shout over them. 😬 So that’s why I took the sound out of the second part and switched to music - no need to listen to me shouting! 🤣😂 And yes, I’m fortunate to live in a great neighborhood like you mentioned! 👍

[@fordguyfordguy]

very nice tour!

[@GardenSanity]

Thank you very much! 😊

[@lindamiller394]

Very beautiful.

[@GardenSanity]

Thanks Linda! Glad you enjoyed it! 😀

[@marythomson3229]

Do you have any Heart Throb Hydrangea? I’d be interested in knowing more about them.

[@GardenSanity]

Hi Mary, I don’t have them, but if you “google” Heart Throb Hydrangea, look for a search result from Southern Living Plants which has good information for you. Hope this helps! 😀

[@shirynbaldaccini3385]

What a beautiful mid-August garden with gorgeous, fully flowering hydrangeas. I love your choice of all gorgeous looking companion plants. So much joy and positive energy your tour brings. Thanks for sharing with us this magical place you have created!❤❤❤

[@GardenSanity]

Thank you for your comments Shiryn - I really appreciate it! 🙂 I’m glad my joy over these gardens comes through in the video. 🌸

[@grannysweet]

👍😎🌈🐕

[@mailkeme]

Hi Laura I just found your channel and I've really been enjoying your garden... topiary lavenders, humming birds and the vast array of hydrangeas!! I just wanted to know the name of the purple bush that comes into focus at 23:29 in the flower bed behind the lamp post.

[@dawnwalker152]

I'm new to your channel. I just found you this morning. Loving what I see. I, too am in South Jersey (beach town). I look forward to watching many more of your videos for ideas and tips.

[@GardenSanity]

Hi Dawn! 👋 So glad you found my channel! ☺️ And happy to meet another South Jersey coastal gardener! Enjoy the lovely weather for the next few days - the low humidity is very refreshing!

[@68greenbelt]

Id love to know, a year later, how your "Tiny Quick FireS" are doing? Have they grown much? Flowers I bet are close to happening?

[@GardenSanity]

You're in luck, as I have a video on this very topic! Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZDEo4CGgtWYpbMsi=jMxKUXe1IYg_ybkI 😀

[@GardeningSpirit]

It all looks so pretty Laura!! Love the look of the pavers, with the birch, hydrangeas, grasses.

[@GardenSanity]

Thanks Alexandra! Everything has filled in nicely over the years, with the occasional fussy shrub here and there too! 🙂

[@leneb1912]

I am inspired to buy more hydrangeas...thanks to you.😂 Hoping for some end of season sales. 😂 Do you prefer the Little Lime Punch over the original Little Lime?

[@GardenSanity]

Hi Lene! I’m always happy to be a plant enabler! 😀 If you had asked me last year about which I preferred, I would have said Little Lime. Last year, the Lime Punch didn’t perform as well as I wanted it to. However, this year - as you may have seen in my recent Little Lime Punch video - I had much better success and the colors are still getting better! In terms of height and width and growing conditions, all are the same for both varieties. If choosing just one, and you want more vibrant color change - and you’re in zone 7 or lower - I’d choose Lime Punch. (In higher zones or hotter areas, the flowers can skip the pink phase and go to brown.) Then again, Little Lime develops beautifully as Summer turns into Fall, but the coloring is more subtle yet equally beautiful. You’ll see the palest of pinks becoming more rose-pink as the Fall continues, especially with cool night temperatures. I probably didn’t help, did I? 🤣🩷

[@leneb1912]

@@GardenSanity Yes you did help. I will make sure to have Little Lime AND Little Lime Punch in my garden.🤣😂🤣

[@GardenSanity]

@@leneb1912 I am laughing out loud, Lene! 😂🤣 That sounds like what my answer would be too, if the roles were reversed! 😀💛

[@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard]

Very nice garden show I, Love panicle hydrangea, planted 40 of them in my garden.

[@GardenSanity]

Thanks so much Linda! You've got me beat, as I "only" have 26 of them! (Just had to count!) 😂 40 sounds glorious! What varieties do you have?

[@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard]

I have all your varieties except Fire light tidbit, also have Bobo, Quick fire Fab, and vanilla strawberry .Vanilla strawberry has most beautiful color .

[@GardenSanity]

@@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard Oooh, I love the fluffy panicles of Quick Fire Fab and Vanilla Strawberry! And yes, I've seen how beautiful Vanilla Strawberry's color is! I'm going to plant a Pinky Winky Prime soon...which is supposed to have better coloring than the originals I have. So I guess that makes #27! 😂

[@QueenGail]

I love watching your channel, I was going to ask what’s a panicle and then you explained 😊 Blessings 💚💜

[@GardenSanity]

Thanks Gail - I really appreciate it! 🩷 I love panicle hydrangeas because they bloom on new wood, pruning is easy, and the flowers bloom reliably on new wood every year. 🌸😀

[@eliselook]

💚 just lovely to wander through your garden and get the panicle hydrangea tour! thanks for the calming music switchover too - super enjoyable!!!!

[@GardenSanity]

I’m so glad you enjoyed it Elise! And very happy you liked the music - when I was editing the video, I realized I was starting to yell over the loud noises. And that’s not pleasant to listen to! 🤣

[@lovelight9164]

2 years ago I bought several hydrangeas, was told to cut all the blooms off so it can put the effort into growing roots so I did and haven't seen but one bloom on any of them but 2 turned out getting cane boars and I had to cut back 50-60% off of the plants. In my opinion cutting the blooms off opened my beautiful plants up to being infested with the cane boars so in my opinion I say don't cut the flowers off. The plant will grow roots regardless but both my pinky winky and my zinfin doll may not make it back. When you buy hydrangeas look at the ends of the stems if they are hollow that plant probably has cane boars. Don't buy it.

[@khayescobar1819]

Beautiful garden 👍🙏😊❤️ Thank you for sharing

[@GardenSanity]

You’re welcome Khay! Thanks for watching! 🙂

[@willaerley7140]

The allium with the little lime is my favorite.

[@GardenSanity]

Thanks Will - mine too! 🌱🙂

[@terrimadreperla4482]

All my hydrangeas have black spots and lost leaves, what do I do? I’m in Central Jersey

[@QueenGail]

Your garden is breathtaking Blessings 💚💜

[@GardenSanity]

Thank you Gail! 🌸🩷

[@NanettePatterson302]

Beautiful

[@maryk1668]

You were one of my influencers for adding panicle (a number of different varieties) to my landscape! I love them! I trim them in late winter and that’s it! Right now they are gorgeous! End of July

[@GardenSanity]

I'm so glad you are enjoying the different panicle hydrangeas you've added to your landscape, Mary! 👍 But I don't consider myself an influencer, more of a plant enabler instead. 🤣 I think having a variety of them is wonderful because of the different bloom times of each one. The long season of flowers just can't be beat! Thanks for your comment! ❤️

[@maryk1668]

@@GardenSanity Enabler🤣🤣🤣that’s true

[@GardenSanity]

@@maryk1668 😀 I'll always encourage (um...enable) fellow gardeners to consider adding plants that I know are workhorses and will be on the easy-care side of things! Likewise, I'll tell it like it is, if a plant is really high maintenance. (I'm looking at you, Knock Out Roses!) 🤣

[@maryk1668]

@@GardenSanity lol! Dug out all my knock outs. Beautiful for one or two weeks, then yuk

[@GardenSanity]

🤣 When we first started these garden beds, I had Knock Outs in every bed. Little by little, we ended up removing them, except for the 3 that I keep under control 85% of the time. Replacing the rest with panicle hydrangeas made me happier! 🌸

[@SAHamel_]

looks like it needs iron

[@GardenSanity]

That’s what I thought too, Shirley, but adding iron didn’t help which is why mites were suspected. 🤔

[@calvintu4868]

Hi, I try to find if you have a video showing how to prune hydrangea. It only growing leaves only and I’m so afraid to prune it incorrectly

[@GardenSanity]

Yes I have a few videos on pruning hydrangeas. Scroll back up to the description box area, and I have a link to my Hydrangeas Playlist, and that’s where you can watch pruning videos for hydrangeas. Hope this helps! 👍

[@lisamiller7143]

Love it

[@GardenSanity]

Thanks Lisa! 😀🌸

[@virginiaramirez4214]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@GardenSanity]

Thank you Virginia! 🩷🌸

[@bootnyps19]

They are coming out with a Pinky winky prime! Your yard looks stunning!

[@GardenSanity]

Stay tuned, as I’ll be adding one to my garden soon! 😀 Looking forward to seeing how the Prime compares to the original!

[@bootnyps19]

@@GardenSanity I'll keep it locked! When they hit the market I'll definitely get one

[@GardenSanity]

I love my Pinky Winky shrubs so much, that having a variety with more color and slightly larger sounds perfect to me! 🌸

[@bootnyps19]

@@GardenSanity such a beautiful plant!

[@vgutierrez1873]

Can the quart size hydrangea survive winter? Mine looks so small i wonder if it ll make it.

[@GardenSanity]

It should, as long as it’s well mulched for the Winter season to keep the roots from freezing. What zone are you in? And when did you plant yours?

[@vgutierrez1873]

@@GardenSanity I'm in zone 7 NYC

[@vgutierrez1873]

@GardenSanity I planted it in a bigger pot 2 weeks ago. A little lime punch. Thanks

[@GardenSanity]

@@vgutierrez1873 Yes, it should survive in the pot over the Winter. What you want to do is move the pot as close to your foundation and out of the wind as possible. Having it next to the foundation will keep the pot a bit warmer than out in the middle of a garden. And of course the wind can dry out a plant quickly. We had enough rain last Winter that I didn't need to water my potted Little Quick Fire at all, but if rain/snow is lacking, giving it a little drink when above freezing is ok. Make sure to put a good amount of mulch around the plant for the Fall/Winter to help keep moisture in and protect the crown and roots. You could also move it into an unheated garage or cool basement as possibilities. But these hydrangeas go dormant in the Winter, so keeping them outdoors is fine in a more protected area.

[@vgutierrez1873]

@GardenSanity 👍🏼thanks so much..will do.

[@rosiesingleton6480]

Hi Laura - are you getting hit with the devastating “ Lantern Flies ?” This is the first summer I’ve seen them on my property 😡. They have laid their mud larvae on my tree barks. They suck the life out of trees & bushes. I’m so upset 😭

[@GardenSanity]

Hi Rosie - yes we have them. Not too bad so far, just killing them whenever we see them. What state are you in again?

[@rosiesingleton6480]

@@GardenSanity Yonkers, New York

[@GardenSanity]

There’s a NY state website for lanternflies: www.dec.ny.gov/animals/113303.html where you can report where you see them. NJ used to do the same thing. Last month we sprayed with Ortho BugClear, as it has 2 chemicals that kill lanternflies. Yes, I hate using chemicals but I will hate losing my trees and gardens to lanternflies even more. The key is to get as many as possible before they climb too high and lay eggs. Not fun.

[@rosiesingleton6480]

@@GardenSanity thanks Laura 👍🏻

[@GardenSanity]

No problem! Remember they can also blow into your yard on the wind (they don’t truly fly) so we do what we can! 🙂

[@linhmoberly4493]

Beautiful garden. Ur hydrangeas look very nice ( except one , sorry about that ) my little limes and primes are all flopping on the ground 😢 due to the rain we had in NJ. Do I need to prune them harder next spring . Thanks for ur videos. ❤ ur garden.

[@GardenSanity]

Thanks Linh! ☺️ Yes, this rain we’ve been having in NJ has been making my Little Limes flop too, as you saw in the video. ☹️ The stronger the stems, the less flopping. And stronger stems come from less pruning back not more. So as the base stems get stronger each year, you should have less flopping. My floppy stems are the ones that grew as new ones this year, out from where I made my pruning cuts back in Spring. Hopefully we will dry out and the flowers will bounce back up. 🤞 You could also cut some flowers off to bring inside and enjoy…and the stems will bounce back. It’s the weight on the flowers from all that rain they are holding which weighs the stems down. 🌸