Hydrangea Did Not Flower This Year

If you have a hydrangea that won t flower you may have pruned it back too far the year before.

Hydrangea did not flower this year. Three common reasons mophead hydrangeas fail to bloom. Hydrangeas benefit from some sun. Both french hydrangeas hydrangea macrophylla and lacecaps hydrangea macrophylla normalis form flower buds during the summer a whole year before plants bloom. New growth that comes only from the ground is a bad sign that the hydrangea will not bloom this year.

Because the old varieties of pink and blue hydrangeas only flower on one year old wood this current year s growth did not produce any blossoms. Then just prune off the spent blooms when they finish and turn brown. If a hydrangea blossoms on new wood and still isn t flowering there still might be a pruning problem. If your hydrangeas are the kind that bloom on old wood that means they will bloom next year on the growth that they put on this year.

Probably the top cause of hydrangeas not flowering is pruning at the wrong time. Younger hydrangea plants tend to be the ones sold in anything less than a one gallon pot. If you planted a young hydrangea bush you may not see blooms for at least 2 years. Hydrangea that bloom on new wood should be pruned in late winter.

As a result most of the new growth comes from the roots as in the picture above. Watch your sun patterns. The freeze may be light and even go unnoticed until one realizes that the blooms are not forming. If the old wood is already gone there is no reason to worry.

When this occurs you know you have a problem. When this happens there is literally no space for flowers to appear. Sometimes gardeners get zealous with the shears and strip off too much material when trying to cut plants back. Not at all until they bloom again.

A late spring freeze arrives and ruins the developing bloom buds. For once blooming hydrangeas pruning during late summer fall or in early spring the following year can remove flower buds. My endless summer hydrangeas are not blooming. Flowers might not bloom this year but will have enough old wood to appear next year.

Gardeners left the sticks up for the entire spring hoping in vain for signs of life. Instead fresh green growth sprung up from the roots which are much hardier to zone 5. Often hydrangeas that aren t producing flowers have been pruned in early summer and late winter. Someone who is obsessed with getting their hydrangea to be.

You may not see any action until it has had time to get established in your landscaping. If they are over pruned they ll have a tendency to die back more than normal and they ll make you wait a whole year before they blossom again. Members of the. If you prune at the wrong time of year and cut the buds off you will not get flowers it is that simple.

What am i doing wrong. Or it may kill all the emerging leaves too. Those that bloom on old wood should be pruned right after flowering which ensures that new buds have not yet formed. The lush blooms of hydrangeas are one of summer s joys in united states department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 through 9.

So don t prune the ones that didn t bloom. This year i have no flowers just large leaves. If you purchase one of these plants be patient.