Beginner Gardening: Too much sun for these hydrangeas?, 1 by chefchick

chefchick wrote:
Brand new to gardening, first post here...after years of neglecting and killing plants, I'm trying to reform myself. I find it's not the physical labor I've been avoiding, just my sheer overwhelming ignorance of all things plant-related that's been holding me back - but I'm determined to educate myself and turn over a new leaf!

Starting with these sad, neglected hydrangeas in the front of my house. A few weeks ago I moved them, before a new landscaping project began out there. I replanted them in the back yard, but removing a couple of small pine trees nearby has made that area much sunnier that it used to be. It now gets sun all afternoon. I think the hydrangeas are getting burned; the leaves have brown edges and some holes. There are hostas nearby suffering the same fate. Should I move them all to a shadier location? I don't know which kind the hydrangeas are; they haven't bloomed in the 2 summers we've lived here.

And if an area gets sun in either the morning or the afternoon, but not both, is that considered "part shade"?

Thanks!

chefchick


This message was edited Jun 26, 2008 1:46 PM