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| My brand new barbecue off the patio and right onto my favorite plant....hydrangea little honey. Sheared off half the branches but barely missed the main trunk. I'm not sure what annoys me more, the fact that the bbq got blown off the patio or that the plant was damaged.....I expect it to recover though, might take a year or more to fill out again though. |
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| That must have been some wind! |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 17, 11 at 9:01
| my only hydrangea .. dies down to snow cover ... and what is not pruned off to that level.. is usually taken down to the lowest .. best 2 buds ... but mine is a 15 year old version of an easter plant ... so i guess i would be more irritated by the barbie damage .. we had the same winds .. it was miserable ... i hid in the house. ... ken |
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| Depending on where they are located, I get decent survival of hydrangeas but it still doesn't guarantee blooms.....I have stunning blooms on one F & E hydrangea but none on the exact same plant right next to it! The winds were crazy, would likely have blown small children away. Hydrangea little honey is slower growing than other hydrangeas and does not die back at all where I have it located which is why this is even more annoying. It had filled out so nicely. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Mon, Oct 17, 11 at 11:11
| I just hope you weren't trying to cook dinner when the grill went flying! ...but you probably would have mentioned that. Sorry! |
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| ACK!! I'd be p*ssed about the hydrangea. Oakleafs aren't quick growers like other types of hydrangea, so while eventually she'll fill in and the shape will even itself out, it might take a couple seasons. Similar thing happened to me a couple falls ago - a gust of wind sent my wheelbarrow flying into a winterberry holly, cracked off a huge piece of one side. Thankfully the damage wasn't that noticeable after the foliage filled in the following spring (although, of course, *I* knew it was lopsided and it bugged me...), and now you'd never even know it, I swear it's fuller than ever - that's the effect pruning can have, whether said pruning is intentional or not. Perhaps next season you should move the grill out of the path of the wind, or chain the legs to something that isn't going anywhere. |
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