Hydrangea Little Lamb Pruning

This video applies only to pruning panicle hydrangeas.

Hydrangea little lamb pruning. Deborah silver a garden designer in detroit has a good blog post with photos on pruning limelight hydrangea which is the same species of hydrangea so little lamb can be pruned the same way. Pruning at the start of the growing season encourages the growth of stems and flower buds. Prune little lime hydrangea in late winter or early spring preferably while the shrub is dormant. This plant flowers on old wood grown during the previous season.

A lot of people ask us if they can prune their panicle hydrangea in fall. Pruning your hydrangeas to reduce their height isn t effective because they will grow right back to their original size or even larger because the act of pruning stimulates new growth. Little lamb hydrangea spacing these shrubs should be planted 6 to 8 feet apart center on center. Snip just below the finished blooms.

Instead transplant your too large still dormant hydrangea to a new spot in early spring and replace it with a variety that naturally stays shorter. That forces the hydrangea to produce multiple branches at the top of a central stem. The best time to prune little lime shrubs is just as the snow has melted. Perform more thorough pruning in fall as the shrub enters dormancy or in winter before it begins to put on new growth.

The shrubs are still dormant but it s warm enough to be out in the garden. Perform minor pruning to tidy the plant if desired immediately after flowering. When the trunk has reached the desired height usually about 4 or 5 feet 1 2 1 5 m he begins pruning the top of the plant too. It s a vine not a shrub and it generally requires little to no pruning.

Pruning little lamb hydrangeas should be done in late winter or early spring. Learn how and why here. Fertilize these in early spring with a slow release fertilizer designed for woody plants like trees or roses.