How to Prune Hydrangea (A Martin Masterclass!) - Pots & Trowels
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Whether you have Hydrangea Aspera or Macrophylla, Paniculata, Annabelle or Petiolaris - Martin has advice for you! (This video was published on 11th March in the UK)
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Martin Fish has been gardening for over 40 years & judges for the RHS and writes regular features in gardening magazines. Videographer Sean Riley has been making videos for over 20 years. Martin and Sean have worked together on gardening TV & videos for BBC, Allett, Cobra and many others.
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Most understanding man who knows what he is doing. Thankyou for your wonderful advice.
Thank you for your kind words. Martin
Excellent! That you. 🥰
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At last! Someone who not only explains, but demonstrates, how to prune these plants. - and how to identify the different types. Thank you so much :)
Thanks for your comment Judith
Martin
Great video. Best I’ve seen by a long shot. Many thanks. I now have a happy wife.
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Finally, a video that explains how to prune the taller, more woody type, just what I was looking for and as yet not found in any other videos. Thanks!
Thank you. Please spread the word! Martin
Simply the best explanation I have seen yet on how to prune a hydrangea which blooms on old wood. Thank you so much for posting this.
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Hands down the best hydrangea pruning video out there.
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Agreed
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Yes, i learned so many things
The most helpful hydrangea pruning video ever! Finally, I have some answers. Thank you!🇨🇦
Thank you. Martin
Oh my word, you are ruthless! Thank you! Thank you for sharing such a wonderful video, without annoying background music, that explains how to do it. Now I know how to tackle my hydrangeas without fear of doing the wrong thing!
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Thank you!!
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Wonderful teacher thank you HAPPY Easter!
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I loved this , Martin explained the pruning process so well .Keep up the good work .
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Been looking for video this subject and here it is excellent simple and straightforward many thanks
Thank you
A pleasure to find a really informative, very well presented gardening video, which is British, not American! Keep up the good work, I look forward to watching more.
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SO HELPFUL. I just planted a paniculate, and found this easy to understand.
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Extremely well done and easy to understand.
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Very helpful, thanks, you’ve got a great admirer in that dog!
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Brilliant information
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Thanks. Great explanation with great visuals
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Thank you for producing this video. It is the first and best explanation of when and how to prune my three different types of hydrangeas.
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Thank you for this, very informative and helpful
Glad you found it helpful
Martin
Wonderfully explained with no waffle, perfectly clear precise information, thank you and i hope you make many more .
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Fantastic! I'm not much of a gardener and always worried that I'd kill the poor plant by pruning too much. Much appreciated!!
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Thank you! Excellent demonstrations, illustrations, and descriptions!
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thank you! I never knew exactly what to do with the old blooms in the spring. Now I do.
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Clear and concise, thank you.
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Today I watched this movie once again and it's worth 1000 movies previously watched all for 10 minutes perfectly at the point, that's what it is said in Poland❤
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Thank you so much for sharing, God Bless
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Excellent demonstration and explanation! Thankyou!
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I’m learning so much from you. Thank you for sharing all of your gardening expertise.
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Thanks for the great explanation…you are very thorough yet right to the point…a Canadian fan 🇨🇦 10:53
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Thank you
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Well done, thank you.
Oh! I didn't know I could cut 'Annabelle' right back to the ground. Thank you much for explaining about the cutting of all these different types of Hydrangea's.
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Excellent video, very clear and simple instructions to follow.
Thank you. Martin
Good old reliable hydrangeas. Here we are 4b and blue hydrangeas are not for our climates. Harsh winters make them a really big challenge. If not impossible.
But for others they produce flowers year after year and with almost no maintenance. And these flowers last for months, from endjuly until frosts even later. When they are covered by snow.
The flowers turn gradually from creamy white to a beautiful pink. I love hydrangeas because they are essentially the only shrub that blooms in late summer.
Great advice, covered all the different varieties of hydrangeas in our garden 🙂
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Very clear and informative. Thank you very much indeed!
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Best video about hydrangea pruning, ever!! Thank you 👍👍👍
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Thank you so much for your very informative video. I look forward to watching more videos from your channel.
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I have 3 different types of hydrangeas this video is very helpful! Thank you.
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thanks Sir for the good advice, and cheers from NZ
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Amazing video, very helpful. Thank you. ❤
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Must say good video about pruning Hydrangeas
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Very informative love your garden
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excellent video!!
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Very informative video! Thank you!
excellent info and well presented
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Thank you for such a useful info video. I applaud the way you did it. Short and to the point. A new subscriber. God bless you! Greetings from London.
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Beautiful yard 👌
My favorite flowers
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Thank you for a very informative video. I have H. macrophylla (Changebales and white) in my small garden (Northern Scandinavia) and this year the white ones bloomed (still blooming) 'madly'. I will certainly have to do some pruning after your advice next spring.
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I have both pink and blue growing together in acid soil. Cutting the tops off with a hedge trimmer works too.
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Another timely video I am doing this. This weekend thanks for your time 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hi
I wrongly pruned my hydrengea,taking out the buds..i should have watch first your video..
Do you think it wont give me flowers this year?Im really gutted..
Super helpful thank you I’m a newbie to gardening after living in a flat in london for years, now in a house with a well established garden and have no idea where to start!
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Brilliant video!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!
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Very very informative. Thank You ❤
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This is one of the best videos on hydrangea pruning
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Thank you for this sir!
Thank you! Very informative & helpful indeed....
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This is a very informative video!
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great information!! tyfs!
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Helpful vid. Thank you
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thanks for great tips
Thank you this was so helpful!
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Brilliant and thanks
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Thank you so much 🌸
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Very helpful and interesting thank you 😊
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Hi we’ve got 2 limelight’s can they be pruned lower say to 6” from the ground. Ours are about 15 years old and getting woody…
Keep the vids going …just love em!
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That's great to hear - sorry for the delayed response - catching up after Christmas! -Sean
Very. Good. To. Know
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Thanks so much for this video! Any advice on what to do when a nettle intertwines its roots in a hydrangea?
It’s just a case of trying to loosen the nettle roots to gradually ease them out.
Ty very informative
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Thank you Martin, most helpful hydrangea pruning video. I have the peniculta's in containers, can i treat them like the arborescens and cut them down to the base or do they have to have the structured frame? thanks
Martin will answer this on an upcoming podcast, I'll try to give you a heads up as to which episode! -Sean
I have a climbing hydrangea and it has not bloomed at all. I have had it for two years and the first year I planted it had a few blooms but this year nothing. Any advice for this? It does not get much sun, but the garden centre said that was fine to plant. Thanks.
I hard pruned one that was short of water and light which didn't flower last year. This year, only tiny flower heads. I'm going to give it a feed and water and see how it goes. Not sure if it could be moved? Another lace cap has had autumnal coloured leaves all Summer which looks nice but unusual.
Martin has answered this in our latest Q&A video, due out this Thursday! Hope you can watch it! -Sean
what about oak leaf hydrangea - was it one of these you exampled and I missed it? I have 43 hydrangeas and love them but learning to care for them!!! Sincere thanks!
We didn’t cover oak-leaved hydrangea but they are great plants. Martin
Covering Oak Leaf Hydrangea in our next video, stay tuned 🌱 :)
Just found your channel and now subscribed. Excellent video on managing hydrangeas. I have quite a few in my garden. If one cut back hydrangeas in the autumn would it damage the shrubs. Must check out more of your videos 🙂
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Thankyou that as a really good lesson ❤
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I have never seen them looking dead like the first ones you pruned. I live in
America so mabey that makes a difference.
My mom started hers with a pruned stick from the lady nextdoor
Brilliant, thanks for sharing that and watching the video! -Sean
Martin says that in the UK hydrangeas lose their leaves in winter and become dormant. In warmer climates they sometimes retain some of their foliage, which may be the case with yours. Thanks again for watching P&T! 🌱
@@PotsTrowels thanks for that. I'm in New Zealand and I have what I think is a lace cap, but mine has leaves. It had just finished flowering and I want to prune it. Also wondered what to feed it. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you for a wonderful explanation...the best yet! My aborescens grow to over 6 feet tall and droop while many blooms seem too weighty, especially after the first big wind. Should I prune them as they're growing or how do I control the height???
Thank you. Martin
A good explanational video, but when should you do the pruning?
March in North Yorkshire when we made this video but will depend a little on your local climate
@@PotsTrowels thank you for your speedy reply!
What about runaway bride hydrangea.How do you prune it and when is the best time to plant in the garden from pot.
Just cut the old dead wood down to the first bud. That's it! The 'Annabelle' is similar to Crape Myrtle in that you take it down to the bottom - again cutting the dead wood.
Hi! I loved this, very informative. However, there was no mention of the oak leaf hydrangea, which I planted this spring. I got lovely blooms but they went to bronze within a month. The leaves are dying back now as it’s end of October, though that die back started in September. I think this plant goes dormant in winter, though our CA winter is mild. Would appreciate your insights!
We have an oak-leaf hydrangea…..the leaves turn red in winter and seem to stay until almost springtime. I haven’t pruned it yet, so would also be interested to know when & how 🙂
There's a very good video, Overdevest Nurseries. I have several saved and they're all good.
Thank you for telling AND showing what to do. I love hydrangea but planted not really knowing much about them. I’m in Southern California. Is there any difference in pruning times? Thanks.
Hey Barbara, sorry for the delayed response! - Pruning is exactly the same and because your weather is milder, you can prune in late winter, before new growth starts to open up - I hope this helps and thanks ever so much for your support! Keep Gardening!
great video thank you! most thorough one ive watched so far on youtube and nice clear shots of exactly where to cut on the stem - much appreciated. One question - I live in Sydney and my hydrangea macrophylla still has most of its leaves (currently middle of winter here)...should I still prune the same way?
Hi, you should be able to prune in the same way and you can do it in late winter as I’m sure frost won’t be a problem for you in Sydney. Martin
ok great i will do - thanks so much for the reply! it's very appreciated @@PotsTrowels
When you trimmed the Paniculata down to old wood, you stated it would grow new wood from “these buds”, but all I saw were the tops of the old wood where you snipped back to. Where were the buds? Were those cut stems the buds, you mean?
The buds would be very small & dormant, but once you prune, they will start to grow in spring. Martin
Just found the channel, brilliant I have to say. have subscribed. A question if you get chance to reply? I have flowers on a blue hydrangea which has taken 4 years in flowering. I would love to cut about 5 stems to dry them but do not want to compromise next years growth and flowering. Is it ok to cut them as described?
Found this video after i pruned mine, at least i can confirm i did it right :))
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I have oakleaf hydrangea and would like to know how to prune them. Had them 13 years and in the 14th. year the deer decided those buds were theirs. Now the deer do the pruning. I may have to give up on them.
Argh, don't give up! Deer pellets? (Joke!) -Sean
We are covering Oak Leaf Hydrangea on this Thursday's video - hope that helps! 🌱
@@PotsTrowels Thanks; I'll tune in.
So you are pruning in the spring after the winter, I’m in Canada I’m assuming the same applies
Hi, we talked about Hydrangea pruning in differing climates in our latest Q&A - hope that helps! -Sean
that was brutal but we all needed to see it, so we too can be so brave. i suspect my roses need the same treatment.
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Hi! Are you only pruning hydrangeas in the early spring, or can you also do this in the fall?
Thank you so much for this very informative video. I have purchased the mophead Hydrangea about 2 weeks ago and its currenlty blooming. Can i deadhead it should the flowers finish blossoming within jext few weeks with a hope it will blossom again this year or should i now leave it in peace and deadhead in spring next year? Thank you.
It will only have one main flush of blooms a year, so no need to deadhead until spring. Martin
So when do we prune the macrophylla hydrangeas? Late Fall or Winter? Not Spring, right? I live in Northern California in the central valley. thanks
Hey James, here in the UK we prune in about March time, but I'll ask Martin what differences there might be in a milder climate like yours -Sean