Mal’s Favorites: Endless Summer - hydrangea macrophylla + Pruning Tips
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2025
- A lifelong gardener, Mal has been collecting, propagating, and growing hydrangeas for more than 40 years. An engineer by education and profession, he is strongly committed to the continuing development of the genus - always searching for new and better plants, evaluating their landscape performance, and finding superior ways to produce and grow them.
His Hydrangea Farm Nursery on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts was a well-known specialty nursery featuring one of the largest hydrangea collections in the Northeast. In 2014, he relocated to Cape Cod, where he continues his passion establishing a significant new garden. Mal frequently shares his ever-increasing hydrangea knowledge with garden clubs, horticultural associations, and plant societies in the U.S. and other hydrangea-centric locations worldwide.
He is currently the Curator of Hydrangeas at Heritage Museums & Gardens and totally involved with the continuing expansion of the Garden’s significant collections, including the North American Hydrangea Test Garden and The Cape Cod Hydrangea Society’s Display Garden. Check out this video to learn more about Mal's favorites and some helpful gardening tips!
Wonderful. His third step - this is the only video I've seen online that describes it. True wisdom.
I could listen to him talk about Hydrangeas all day.
Wow…super cool dude!! I just purchased 2 summer crush plants they gave my flower bed a big pop!
Thank you. I could actually understand that tutorial on pruning.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom Mal!
Thanks so much! Precisely the info. I was seeking re: removing spent blooms. New subscriber here!
Excellent information to learn!
Exactly the information I was looking for. Thank you Mal
Thank’s Mal ! Terrific video.
I needed this very valuable information, thank you. Our seasoned gardeners have so much information to offer.
Very nice sharing 👌👌
thank you, Sir! loved, liked, and subbed!
Beautiful. Thank you so much for the information. I was wondering if I could dead head my endless summer now ☺️❤️
My schedule also, but in southeast we get a second opportunity in July to remove entire older spent stems to the ground. This is only possible because we remove entire stems in February, thus relieving congestion. Good base growth is ready and willing in summer, if there is fertilizer and water.
I have heard that this summer removal of entire stems, particularly for remontant hydrangeas in the north , works well to give you plenty of growth remaining after winter. The books may be late, but they will be plentiful.
Commercial growers may cut back by a third after flowering, but that is not a method for the garden.
Thank you for this information. I"m trying to figure out why my Endless Summer is suffering. It looks like it's dying, but the stems are green, but the leaves at the top of the stem are wilting and red in colour as if it's Fall. The flowers are tiny and wilted too. It'd been happy where it is for 5-6 years or more. Not much coming up from down below, but a couple of leaves. I think I'll cut it down half way to a node and hope. No idea what went wrong. Z 8A sw Canada.
wow very good informations
I have a row of hydrangeas in front of my picture window. Unfortunately over the last couple years the middle bushes have grown significantly less in height as the other hydrangeas. So there is a major dip in the row! How do I fix this? I think I’ve had these hydrangeas around 10 or so years. I’m at a loss!!! Can you advise?
Thank you, Kathy
One simple question I'd like to ask please. How far apart do you have your plants? I'm planning on putting out 15 or so plants in a few more weeks, I know the internet says about 8 feet apart. But is that really true. Ultimately I'd like the plants to just be one big mass. Thank you for any info.
This plant hardy to Zone 4.