Need a lot more info @spars49 It could be any one of a number of issues, from over or under watering, poor conditions, wrong site, wrong time of pruning, plants being young, variety, poor soil. Can you post some photos so that we can offer suitable advice?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If you leave the flowerhead on the ten year old plant then that is the stem you should prune in late Spring if it's a mophead type. All the other stems should be left alone as next years flowers will come from there.
The limelight is a different type, a Paniculata and all the stems should be cut each Spring as they flower on new wood. You could try not cutting anything back for a year or so, as all that is doing is containing the size and structure of the plant.
Hydrangeas need lots of water and grow best in dampish climates, but they don't need much in the way of feeding. I hope you manage to solve your problem as they are lovely when they are happy and get their roots down.
Is there membrane under the chippings? Are they getting enough water through it? I’d give them a bucketful each today and more in a couple of days’ time, to be on the safe side. They do need plenty of water if they’re in a sunny spot.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Have they been pruned and if do, when did this take place?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It could be any one of a number of issues, from over or under watering, poor conditions, wrong site, wrong time of pruning, plants being young, variety, poor soil.
Can you post some photos so that we can offer suitable advice?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The limelight is a different type, a Paniculata and all the stems should be cut each Spring as they flower on new wood. You could try not cutting anything back for a year or so, as all that is doing is containing the size and structure of the plant.
Hydrangeas need lots of water and grow best in dampish climates, but they don't need much in the way of feeding. I hope you manage to solve your problem as they are lovely when they are happy and get their roots down.
Are they getting enough water through it?
I’d give them a bucketful each today and more in a couple of days’ time, to be on the safe side.
They do need plenty of water if they’re in a sunny spot.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.