Preparing Hydrangeas and Roses For Winter
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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In this video we are sharing how we prepare our hydrangeas and roses for winter. This is not a pruning tutorial...just deadheading and making sure our plants are safe from heavy ice and snow.
We start with the different types of hydrangeas. Panicle or paniculata. Mophead or arborescens. Bigleaf or macrophylla. Mountain or seratta. Oakleaf or quercifolia. Each type needed a slightly different approach and Eric explains each one.
After a very cinematic deadheading of our limelight head it is time to move on to the roses.
Although we prefer to do our main pruning in the Spring, we need to prepare the roses so that they aren't damaged over the winter.
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Oh my Lord! Eric with the hedge trimmer and the powerful music in the background, was phenomenal!!! You guys brought me so much joy this morning. Thank you. And wonderful work with all your pruning, I mean deadheading. 😉
Glad you enjoyed it! It cracked me up!
I was on the floor laughing!
Eric “battling” the hydrangea hedge was too funny. Good idea to use the hedge trimmers.
It worked like a charm
Omg the epic music for the Limelight Hedge 😂 I love it!! Thanks for always providing valuable gardening insights.
I’m glad you enjoyed!!
Brilliant idea with protecting roses with chicken wire from rabbits. Thank you for your idea I have a lot of rabbits that cause havoc on roses, perennials and tree bark. Love watching your videos.
Glad it was helpful!
😂😂😂😂🙌👍🙌🤣🤣🤣💜💜 Love this! I chuckled. Great team work!
This was fun
Love all your beautiful plants. You guys work great together. I can’t wait to wake up and check out what you’re doing in your garden. I love to play in my garden, I’ve just moved to this home last summer. Basically put the pots. In the ground to get them all in shelter and last spring planted them, still a work in progress. Thinking I might need to move a few more and buy some more to plant. 😂
I’m 61yr this isn’t getting easier, but you inspire me. Thank so much, I only wish my husband would come out and help me. Love your yard❤
Haha we are lucky to have each other to help!
Northern Michigan, zone 5/6; I have big leaf hydrangeas that I only deadheaded, did NOT prune, but they didn’t always flower. That’s when I realized the deer were eating the buds in Winter. A cherry farmer had wire fencing he was removing from cherry trees so I encased the hydrangeas in those for the winter. The following year (and since then) I have so many beautiful blooms!
That’s a great idea. Wrap them up!
You certainly rock those clippers !
yes!
“I’m going to start at the back of the hedge in case I mess it up.” 🤣😂 Perfect accompanying music during the Limelight deadheading!
Yikes, I hope you didn’t wreck your mower when you turned it over!!! There is a specific direction you can tip mowers without damage (sorry I don’t know which way that is for your mower) having to do with oil getting into the gas if tipped the wrong direction. Hopefully, all is well with it.
Oh goodness we had no idea. Nothing seems to be wrong with it so I guess that was the right direction.
The music while power cutting the hydrangea hedge will undoubtedly be the best part of my day!🤣🤣
I love it!!!
Thanks for all of the tips for winter prep! (A suggestion, instead of using a paddle of florist wire on your roses which can cut into the stems of plants, look for a roll of soft plant tie. It's foam covered wire that can be cut to length....though it won't fit in your pocket. 😉)
I thought about that after we finished this. I was going to switch it out but we don't know how far back everything will need to be cut back in spring! We shall see...either way it won't be on for more than winter.
You asked to leave comments on why zone 7 is so awesome or not so awesome to live in as far as gardening. I live in 7b and agree, we can grow almost anything here but we have quite the humidity and it can be stifling in the summer. Too, with panicle hydrangeas that are advertised as white, changing to pink, we don’t get that beautiful pink because we don’t have the cooler evenings that brings that color on but we admire the northern states that do. There are pros and cons to living in different zones. What’s great is each zone displays its own strengths and beauty. BTW, the trimming of the Limelight hedge with the dramatic music was funny. Great video.
Well that's certainly a tradeoff. I wonder if Quick Fire Fab would turn pink for you...they start changing color pretty early before we started to cool off.
Little Lime Punch is the best I've found that gives me a pinkish hue. I love it. I do have a Quick Fire Fab and it does not turn pink except if it produces a few surprise late blooms mid to end of summer, they will give a pinkish color but nothing close to what it brings up north.
The limelight massacre of 2023
We had a second round of blooms on our Fabs too. It was cool to see all the stages at once.
I have watched it back ten times and it keeps making me laugh
So much good information, thank you for sharing! I live near Memphis, 7b, and the summers are miserably hot and humid, but I cannot imagine the snow. It looks so pretty to see the huge drifts on tv and I always wonder how people function in that situation. Partially because we cannot drive in the snow here! Schools literally close if there is a half inch of snow or even if the forecast is predicting certain winter driving conditions to take place! We make sure we have our milk, bread, and eggs, then hunker down. A friend from Indiana asked why a snow forecast made every southerner dream of French toast! It’s all about the stables in your pantry.
I was so upset when I purchased three three gallon PW Limelight’s and learned they will not turn pink for us because we don’t have enough cool nights. I was so pissed because the tag just showed the lovely pink I was looking forward to and made no mention of it depending on your zone!
I love learning so much from y’all! The best You Tube gardening channel out there!!! Mary in 7b
Thank you Mary. That's no fun that you won't get the pink color!! This season we didn't get cold as fast so we had a bit of blush on the limelights but not the show we usually get. I wonder if some of the darker pink panicles might work better...or you could try Invicibelle Ruby.
Oh the sound of a new tool...wooo hooo!
haha this was a fun day
The music! 😂 I love your videos so much! Very informative. Thank you! So fun to watch you two! Wish I was your neighbor.
Thanks so much! 😊
Your videos are very comforting, relaxing and so enjoyable to watch! 🍂🍁
That is very nice of you to say!
I lived Upstate NY for 3 yrs as a child. Yes winters are harsh. Got tons of snow. Now living in NY zone 7b. It’s more enjoyable. Yet it gets very windy so I have to cut the dry blooms on my limelight’s. The wind alone has snapped off the branches. I truly have to throw my hats to you both for dedicating so much time to care for your amazing garden. I’ve learned a lot from your deadheading tutorial. TY!
That is very nice of you. We do work really hard, but it's worth it.
Suggestion for tying roses or any other similar plants to secure them for winter: instead of paddle wire, try using wrapped wire to prevent the plants from being damaged by the plain wire cutting into the stems. I use wrapped floral wire I get it online for $9.00 a roll. I'm in Colorado in 5b - 6a and really enjoy your videos. Our biggest challenge is clay soil like you wouldn't believe, but I get lots of inspiration from what you two have done in just 5 years. Looking forward to what you'll be up to in 2024.
wrapped floral wire...check!! I don't go tight with the wire because I know ultimately it will be adjusted. I was just watching Gardener's World and someone used twine and it looked pretty tight.
Ok the hydrangea hedge dead heading clip with the trimmers had me LOL!! Ahhh that was hilarious!
And yes,I agree, everyone does their own thing that is best for them in their gardens. I just finished pruning some of my panicle hydrangeas. I chose to prune now in the fall mainly because I wasn’t able to do it last spring (they got huge) and spring is so busy for us. But I do usually like to prune them in the spring.I’ve never considered the deadhead preparation for my panicle hydrangeas. I like that approach too!
Have a great day Eric & Christopher! Thanks for another great video. ❤️
Thanks so much!!! I know what you mean about the busy Spring... we do the majority of our cleanup now because otherwise it becomes a much bigger chore in Spring.
Just discovered you two last week and am systematically making my way through your entire video catalog. I'm going to need more dramatic sequences like the hedge trimmer! 💖
Haha. That was so much fun to do. Thanks for joining us!
Fall cleanup is not for the wary!!😂 way to go get it!!
haha it was fun!
Zone 5 here in Northern Illinois. Thank you for the very informative video!
Glad it was helpful!
Awe, zone 7 here. You got me feeling so lucky ☺️. I do wish we could grow citrus though 🍋 and other fruits I grew up with in California.
That change in music was very fitting!😆😊
I have a tiny Meyer lemon in a pot inside for winter
I'll need a video on that! 😊 I grew up with a huge lemon tree 😋
@@gray_f haha we have three teeny lemons on the plant...which I have at work
I’m in Southern Oklahoma. Zone 7! Winters we get horrible ice storms, lol not light fluffy snow usually. A couple years ago we got a cold spell and got down to -18 and in summers we are often 100+ degrees. We basically have HOT summer, a week or 2 of fall, winter, and a couple weeks of spring! All with tons of wind and drought! 😂 Not exactly perfect gardening weather. I would totally make dried hydrangea arrangements w all those beautiful dried blooms, especially for fall!
Oh I remember that storm. We saw it on the news. You must have had terrible damage from that.
What an excellent PRUNING video! 🤭🙃 jk!
So satisfying to watch and the Limelight hedge massacre was EPIC i cannot with you guys! 🤣🤣🤣
Wasn’t that the best? It took me an hour to decide on the correct overdramatic music
@@growformegardening An hour WELL spent! I may have watched it 5x already 🤣
After watching your bulb planting video and auger use, I ordered one from Amazon. What a game changer....I may have to buy more bulbs...lol!!
Wonderful!
😂Total destruction... it was a funny one
loved it!
Love my zone 7 garden, but I don’t often get the lovely pink phase for my hydrangeas. I had deer pressure on my Limelight early in the season, which produced late season blooms, which turned a lovely pink!
Well that was a happy little browsing!
It woud have been so nice to have a b role or photo at full bloom for the plants you guys deadheaded. Great video.
I got carried away with the cinematic moment and forgot!
Good morning! What a wonderful video! I loved the limelight drama!
Me too!!
Love you guys!!! I’m in ATLANTA Georgia zone 7 wonderful for gardeners,this is what I think couse we could grow different things, and our winters are not to cold not much snow
Thanks for sharing!!
I’ve learned so much from you two ….. thank you!
Awesome! Thank you!
You guys are great! Enjoying this..I’m now a fan.
Awesome! Thank you!
I planted the Generous Gardner this year bare root. Mine is only knee high. I’ll have to find old video to see why yours is so gorgeous! Thanks for the additional info!
Well we did plant it last year at the end of the season. Maybe it had a jump start by waking up in its place? We only started our UA-cam at the end of July so there won't be any help for you in earlier videos!! We did plant it exactly the same way as our other roses and I'm SURE we will be adding new ones next year.
Oh heck no! I live in Southeastern Pennsylvania, zone 7a, and the humidity is unbelievably stifling; I feel like July and August are indoor months! And it causes many issues with plants. I feel like the perfect growing zone is anywhere there is lower humidity. Hysterical with the mulcher 😅😅!!
Well the humidity factor seems to be a bigger issue than I realized.
Great job guys on explaining and showing winter prep for zone 5. Totally agree, chicken wire wrap on roses is the way to go with 🐇 .
Thanks for watching!
The deadheading music was everything!!😂😂😂
hahaha thanks!
Will you do a rose pruning video in the spring? Especially on how to prune climbers? I am fairly new to roses and have several new David Austin roses as well. Thanks for the information!
Absolutely. This preliminary cutback makes the Spring that much easier too.
My region is 6b , Massachusetts, I’ll be doing the same
You must be closer to the coast
I live in 6a West Michigan near Lake Michigan. We get both fluffy and heavy ❄️ snow. Would love 💕 to have you move to Grand Haven! You would be near both Walters Garden and Spring Meadows! It’s beautiful here! 🌼🐝
We visited there this summer! The Spring Meadow trial garden is one of the best places we've ever been
@@growformegardening I drive by there and would love to visit!
I loved the re-iteration that this is not a pruning video. You remind me of my good teachers during my formative years. I love the banter between you too. If only you could take the show on the road!!!
Again, thank you for taking the time to not only explain but demonstrate. These were very practical tips.
Zone 7b gets the sweet spot. I live in dc in 7a. It could be that land is scarce and containers make the cold temps more severe for the plants. However, I hav mourned the loss a lot of macrophylla blooms and a few camellias plants as a result.
Vacay house is in the country and is in zone 5. I am really learning about bunnies et Al.
The rose and clematis tutorials were very good. I am not getting this info on other sites. So, you are carving a good niche.
Where did you get that arch?
Thank you! The arch is from Gardener's Supply. It's called the Gothic Arch...we have it linked in the description. I'm very happy to hear that he information is coming across well!
New subscriber - loving the channel!
Welcome aboard! Thanks!
❤❤❤ lovely
Thanks!
I gave up on coral bells. I only have a couple that come back every year. The dozens I have planted over the years failed. Yours look so nice.
There are a few that are more reliable. Spearmint and Peachberry Ice definitely. Some others not so much
Ok, I passed out when you took after the hydrangea hedge!! 🤤 But I get why you do it. Thanks for all the tips and including the lawn mower hiccup. Believe me it was educational. I didnt know it offered that option. I use chicken wire on my potted garden. Squirrels 🐿 dig holes to store their acorns in the process digging out my plants!! 😬 Looks like Alcatraz, but my plants are safe 😄 I'm in zone 9b. My ideal would be a warm 8, with no snow!👌🏻
ooh a zone 8. That sounds balmy...especially as our temps drop.
Ohhh! This was the best video. The music and slow motion was hilarious. I love watching your videos every morning you upload them before work. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.
Thank you!!
But it looks beautiful and clean
It does!
Loved the hedge trimmer clip😅😂. Thanks for the great information as usual.
I laughed so hard making it
Loved your video. So entertaining and fun. I'm in Zone 7b. Miss the snow, and the humidity here is awful. But, lots of sun. We are having a great fall. 💜
It has been such a long mild fall. We are finally getting the cold temperatures
Great, informative video! As a first year gardener, I have plenty of both hydrangeas and roses in my garden so this video is very helpful! Thanks!
That is wonderful!
I share your pain with a loss of trees and shrubs in 6a. We are further south of you but higher sea level high in the Appalachian Mountains. We can get 3 foot snow to 5 foot snow drifts and 1 inch think or more ice storms that an take down a tree. Lost some beautiful shrubs, red bud and dogwood trees.
Thank you!!!!
I’m in Northern Minnesota zone 3b and live on a 2.5 acres. I use the chicken wire also for many of my shrubs and trees to protect from the hungry bunnies. If I didn’t do that I wouldn’t have anything left. Sometimes I use a landscape metal thing to secure it so it doesn’t blow away. We have very harsh strong winds up here. Awesome video you guys!
Thank you!
I love watching your videos because I garden in zone 5b too! What is that gorgeous ornamental grass across from the Little Lime Punch at 19:53? I gotta have it!
That is a morning light miscanthus!!!
What an awesome video,,, it was so informative and really funny 😊 Your gardens are so meticulously maintained, no wonder why they are so gorgeous. Thank you!!!
Thank you so much 😊
Western North Carolina, Zone 7 here. Love our area of the country. But we here in the South can have hydrangea envy. Our nights aren't cold enough to get the beautiful pink color in our hydrangea blooms that you have in your amazing garden. Your videos are so much fun, they really brighten my day.
I am enjoying learning about how different zone 7 can be depending on the region
Isnt it amazing how the human mind works!? I live in semi-arid zone 9, 3 hrs from the mexican border and 25 minutes from the gulf coast in south texas! We have bougainvillea all types of semi to tropical plants , lots of palms! , but l would love to be able to grow hydrangeas and azaleas and a lot of the things you grow there, but l loathe the cold. Love your videos and the both of you are just a jewel! I love your little skit on trimming your large hedge of hydrangeas. I felt a game of thrones moment there😂😂😂😂❤😊
Yes! That is exactly what I was going for. Winter is Coming!!!!
I’m in a zone 7a and we can grow a lot of stuff but it’s bad and good because the warmer climate stuff doesn’t survive if we have a really cold winter and the cool season plants don’t do well in the summer heat and just get kinda crispy. But we do get mostly 4 seasons. We have rarely gotten snow the last several years. And I love seeing snow. We get heat and humidity.
That's so interesting that you haven't had any snow. Some years we get a few big storms and not much else, some years there is a layer of snow on the ground all season.
No shame, Christopher. I always forget about the mulching plug in my mower.
Ok phew. I’m not alone
Great video! I just planted my first hydrangeas this Fall. 1 Summer Crush and 2 Firelight Tidbits so I’m excited! Thanks for the fun and inspiring video!
Wonderful!
The great panicle hydrangea massacre! Haha that was amazing! I had to run right to the comments to see others thoughts on it, but you're right that it will grow back on new wood! The only tricky thing I ran into on my macrophyllas was maybe removing spent blooms that could have maybe insulated it through windy dry winter we had? Now Im just leaving the macrophylla alone till spring. Im stoked to follow how you'll prune and train your generous gardener! I may have bought 4 lol (2 bare root to train a long a fence and 2 potted to train around the garden obelisk). I may have gotten a little overzealous 😅 Help!
That is going to smell amazzzzzzing! It's such a beautiful rose.
I live in Rhode Island and used to live in Maine and I totally get where you guys are coming from! The heavy snow can do so much damage! I think you're so smart to stay ahead of it! 😊
That's the plan!
It’s always a lot of work in the garden during fall season. I’m in SW Ontario and have been wrapping 60+ roses in chicken wire cages (3 ft tall) and backfilling with leaves. The rabbits here are ruthless! I have two teasing Georgia roses. They are beasts. Great video!
Yes they are!
Hi guys, found your show while looking through shows on gardens. Love hydrangeas so when I saw this and you explained old and new wood i tnought finally I understand. Panacle new wood, so can cut but then you went to oak leaf a panacle but you showed where the new growth had started so no cutting. Growth old wood. I only have 3, one is over 5p years, my mother planted, I believe it's a limelight, it doesn't have a cone flower. One is a endless summer and lucky I get 2 blooms. Never like like yours. Never see so many blooms. What fertilizer do you use?
Your garden is beautiful
I have watched Laura, Garden Answer but you explain better. I always
wondered how she could afford such a landscape if she was a test garden for some large company?
We add 1 cup of espomas rose tone in spring and that is it! It comes down to pruning in spring and good watering.
You use rose fertilizer on hydrangeas?
@@jennsmith4832 Yup! The Rosetone does beautifully!
Always love watching your videos! I’m curious what tree is behind and above the Limelight Prime…
…and the music at the hedge had me rolling 😂
On the east side I have a dappled willow made into a tree form (I will definitely be filming how to pollard it!)
haha thank you!
Here for the edit when Eric used the cutters on the limelight hedge!
Yes!
Yes, they do make black chicken wire - I use black poly coated 12 or 18 inch high rolls for rabbit protection around many plants, including my roses.
This is so good to know!
@@growformegardening I thread a couple of the green support stakes through it and leave it in place all season for my roses (my rabbits are ferocious!) I also use to to protect new plants until established. It’s almost invisible.
Great idea!
Thank you for a great video.❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks again for another great video guys! Bonny
Glad you enjoyed!
The first climbing rose would look great sprawling over a big arch 🥀🥀🥀🌹🌹🌹 am in UK (east coast) my limelight hydrangea flowers are still creamy white 💮💮💮 I discovered a couple of weeks ago a foxglove which has self seeded and grown right up the centre of a begonia 🤷 it looks beautiful but what a place to decide to grow - nature has a way of finding a way 🪻
Oh wow! I love that
Oh my gosh, I do all of my lawn mowing for my husband and watching you figure out how to take out the piece that keeps it mulching was so funny. I just love you guys ,you always make my day.
Haha that mower has too many pieces!
Love the video!!! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank u!!!❤
Thank you!
So glad this came out. I’m in the uk but we are still quite mild at the moment. Should I wait a little while longer before tackling my roses. I don’t want them to suddenly put out new growth .
I’d hang back in the UK. I would love a British climate to garden in
Omg was this a lost episode from Game of Thrones with the deadheading? lol 😅
haha it was so much fun making this
Hi both. I'm in Zone 7a NJ. and you're right we can grow just about anything. Although we do get that heavy snow a lot of the time. Only thing we have trouble with growing is Crape Myrtle. We are just on the cusp of that overwintering. One question. Do you clean up the dead hudrangea leaves after they drop? Or wait until spring?
Normally we leave them, but this year we had stupid mites. We want to get rid of as much material as possible so they can't survive!
I am growing heaven in zone seven but the grass is always greener. In zone 7 we can’t grow a lot of things that need a long winter like lilacs or anything sensitive to humidity or high heat. Zone seven is both too wet and too dry for a lot of things and it is also at some point to hot AND too cold for others!!
Thank you for sharing!
Have you experimented with a crape myrtle bush? I purchased one 30 years ago and have produced about 8-10 plants from it. I am so fond of them.
I live in Yorktown Hts NY and they are doing great here, just a little late starting in the spring. I love your show.
We have looked and there are none that would survive here!
My son lives in Athens NY and his survived.
@@livgiardina2868 Oh wow! That is surprising, but good on him!
With such a large beautiful garden, what do you d o with all the garden refuse that isn’t diseased?
We are very lucky to have an area just behind the berm. It’s probably the most amazing soil underneath the pile.
You mentioned on your Q&A deer and rabbits and you have groundhogs, I'm surprised the groundhogs haven't caused more damaged.
Did you install the berm on your property?
The berm was here when we built. It helps with water runoff
Would love to know where your gloves are from?. For pruning roses. Thanks
Those rose gauntlets were from Amazon I believe. I’ve had them awhile.
This past winter my hydrangeas i bought last year all died back to the ground. So my wee bit griddy didnt bloom this year. Only the lime lights bloomed and the orginals only had a few blooms. I lost 8/9 butterfly bushes. After our lawn guys is finished with fall clean up im going to add hay around most of my plants base. I know some pest will over winter. do you guy suggest spraying something on the hay, before i put the hay down, spray before i do spring clean up or after hay is moved?
We lost a bunch this year too. That late freeze and thaw over and over again really hit some plants hard.
If I want to move my hydrangea, what would be the best time to do so?
At this point in the season (if you are in a colder zone like us) I would wait until spring.
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Correction..hedge trimmer !
haha!
What pruners are you using? The sound is 🤩
Eric was using Corona and Christopher had Felcos
Zone 7 is hot and humid. Powdery mildew as well as other fungus problems. Don’t think any one zone is perfect.
You’re right. We all have our concerns
The nonsensical part would be shipping all the nutrients stored in there to a landfill then having to introduce copious amounts of fertilizer.
exactly!
So is this a pruning video? ( 😜 jk)
haha we wanted to be very specific!!!
😂 you did great 👍
I'm cracking up over your dramatic hedging music.
It’s my favorite
Great video! Love the chicken wire collars idea to reduce rabbit damage.
Thanks for watching!