Reviving hydrangea

galaxy12

Any way to revive a hydrangea that has not bloomed since in two years ?

The stems down to root seem to be dead Any chance re rooting to another place or any other way to save it .

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All plants around it are ok .

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standardg60

Do you mean not leafed in two years? If so it's definitely dead, which it looks anyway.

billyhead

Definitely looks goosed.

BorneTobyWilde

Looks like it was cut back, a long time ago, you never cut back a Hydrangea . It was never going to recover getting cut down to the ground like that. Buy another, prune just the very tops, the dead flower basically

galaxy12

It didn't leaf last year so I did cut it down last year .

5 other hydrangeas which I've had for about seven years cut and dead headed after bloom and theycame back but this one didn't come back last year

No leaves this year as well

The Continental Op

Hydrangeas bear flowers on new shoots on last years wood. Dead heading is OK but if you cut back into the stems at all you will lose flowers for the next year.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123377639#Comment_123377639

you mean never cut it back to the ground? we've often cut ours back, by up to 50% at times.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123378899#Comment_123378899

Yea, not to the ground, I'd leave 85%, cut 15%

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380090#Comment_123380090

Perfectly fine to cut them by half or 2/3rds if necessary to reduce the size with the above proviso that you might lose a year of flowering, though I wouldn't cut them to the ground either, apart from 'Annabelle', which flowers on the current years growth and tends to be fairly lax.

cobham

I would say it was a bad position to have planted it and suprised it ever thrived there. They like lot of water hence in the name 'hydara…' so there is was up against a wall.

billyhead

I only deadhead Hydrangeas and as late in the spring as possible to avoid frost.

looksee

I'd say that's dead, it doesn't look as though it was very well settled into the ground.