Why Didn't My Hydrangeas Bloom- - Southern Living.

About 25 years ago the south used to be azalea country. Everybody wanted azaleas. Well I'm here to tell you that's no more. Azaleas have been replaced by these guys. These are hydrangeas and the south is just crazed about hydrangeas. I get so many questions about hydrangeas but the number one that I always get every year is why didn't my hydrangea bloom? So I'm going to tell you the reasons. Number one maybe you planted it in the shade. Don't do that. It won't bloom in the shade. Number two maybe you pruned at the wrong time. The newer kind of hydrangeas the re-bloomers they bloom on both last year's growth and this year's growth. So even if you cut them to the ground they're still going to grow back and bloom. But most of you have the older kind. They only bloom on buds that were set last fall. So if you tried to neaten them up during the winter or the spring and you clipped on them you clipped off all the flower buds. Now the third reason is maybe you had a colder than normal winter. Leaf buds are hardier than flower buds so the leaf buds are going to survive and you're going to get lots of nice foliage. But the cold has killed your flower buds. If you have one of the older type of hydrangeas the ones that form flower buds only in fall those buds are dead and you're not going to get any more until the next year. But if you go out and get one of the re-blooming types those produce flower buds both in the fall and in the spring. So even if the cold kills them to the ground they're still going to grow back and bloom. So now that you know how to grow a hydrangea and have it bloom beautifully in your yard every single year all is well happiness is yours.