(Herunterladen) Dark Pink Hydrangea

Prune to remove spent blooms and thin or cut back the plant in late winter early spring.

Dark pink hydrangea. Nikko blue mophead is vigorous with large rounded blue flowers. Macrophylla we love all summer beauty mophead which has profuse dark blue flowers turning more pink in soils with near neutral ph. In the french or bigleaf hydrangea hydrangea macrophylla group pink shades cover the gamut from pale to dark almost red hues. If the soil naturally contains aluminum one must try to keep it away from the hydrangea s system. Pink hydrangea fertilizer as we said above the color is determined by the ph levels in the soil. In strongly acid soil ph below 6 flowers turn blue. If its buds are winter killed the plant will form new ones in spring and still bloom.

If you want to make them pink you need to ensure they are getting aluminum from the soil. The leaves of pg hydrangeas are relatively easy to identify when compared with other hydrangeas. In slightly acid or neutral soil ph 6 to 7 blooms may be purple or a mix of blue and pink on a single shrub. Use this reblooming hydrangea in containers as a specimen plant to edge planting beds or as an informal hedge. If your hydrangeas are pink because your soil is alkaline and you want them to be blue you need to make the soil acidic by increasing the presence of aluminum. You see for most french hydrangeas hydrangea macrophylla the flower color indicates the ph of the soil. In containers or in the ground few plants give gardeners the same bang for their buck as the hydrangea.

Add dolomitic lime several times a year. You can achieve this by adding amendments to you your soil like pine needles compost coffee grounds and aluminum sulfate that help make the soil acidic over time. These are large blooms typically start white and may turn to pink. Change hydrangea color to pink. Forever pink hydrangea variety opens full rose pink flowerheads while the rounded blooms on cityline paris glow in fuchsia. If the flowers are pink it means they are taking up aluminum from the soil but if they are blue it means they are not. Gardeners who crave colors from the cool side of the color wheel including pink purple white and blue will delight in the mix of hydrangea hues that are available sometimes even on a.

In alkaline soil ph above 7 flowers turn pink or even red. Paniculata or pee gee exhibits white flowers in summer which gradually turn pink. Arborescens grandiflora or hills of snow hydrangea should be pruned to the ground each winter or early spring as well. This will help to raise the ph. If space is tight in your yard you can still enjoy lush hydrangea blooms with this small shrub which grows 2 to 3 feet tall and wide. Following are a few tricks that might work. These are the most cold hardy hydrangea and can grow from zones 3 to 7.

Flower color shifts from a deep violet purple in acid soils to pink in basic soils. Lacecap oak leaf and large leafed hydrangeas bring diverse texture and form to the summer landscape.