Beginner Gardening: pinky winky hydrangea, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Ditto to Jen.

I'd give each one a planting area to itself. Seeing well grown and tended hydrangeas in their full beauty is wonderful and it would certainly be easier to prune, as needed, with space around you rather than being squeezed in between the two hydrangeas.

We bought this one (left side of the collage by the hostas) in 2006. Look at how it has grown and the last photo isn't even current. The toy horse, by comparison, hasn't grown a bit! It blooms beautifully right down to the lowest branches.

If you want a hydrangea tree 'Limelight' is delightful.

Pruning is fun and yet loses some appeal after the 10th or 20th or 50th hydrangea.