Gardener's 'guaranteed' fix for hydrangeas that produce no blooms at all

Hydrangeas are 1 of the UK's astir fashionable plants and it's casual to spot wherefore - with their immense blooms, they tin brighten up adjacent the dullest country of the garden. But 1 gardener recovered that their hydrangea was each leafage and nary flowers this year

Hydrangeas are a steadfast favourite among British gardeners, loved for their magnificent blooms.

They're expected to athletics luscious flowers and vibrant greenish foliage good into autumn. Yet, 1 green-fingered Brit recovered their hydrangea wasn't performing arsenic hoped.

Puzzled, they reached retired to the 'Hydrangea successful the UK' Facebook radical for immoderate wisdom, posting: "Can anyone connection proposal connected what I did incorrect and however to possibly close it for adjacent year?

"Healthy shrub, but each leafage and nary blooms. Last twelvemonth it managed 1 bloom." Group members were speedy to constituent the digit astatine pruning practices.

Diana Mumford advised: "Don't prune it. Just permission it unsocial until spring, past feed." Lena Chapman added: "The benignant you person present needs to angiosperm connected past year's growth. It looks similar you pruned backmost hard past twelvemonth and this is this year's growth. So you request to bash thing until adjacent spring. I person chopped arsenic precocious arsenic May to debar the past frost."

"Then you chopped down 1 oregon 2 buds connected the twigs. That is it, thing much peculiar than that." Mandy Louise explained: "Pruning excessively hard and/or astatine the incorrect clip is the accustomed crushed for nary flowers."

"The champion hole is to conscionable fto it turn and it should person flowers this year, oregon possibly next." Susan Jennings promised: "The main crushed for the works not blooming is incorrect pruning. I warrant if you permission it unsocial flowers volition look adjacent year."

Pruning is often the culprit down a deficiency of blossoms connected hydrangeas, reports the Express. If you prune from autumn to precocious spring, you mightiness beryllium cutting disconnected the maturation connected the aged wood that would person turned into flowers.

If you're unsure oregon struggling with pruning your hydrangea, it's champion to permission it unsocial and not prune astatine all. You tin ever permission a hydrangea unpruned and spot however it fares successful the summer.