Hydrangea outgrown pot ?
Dave Steel
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Hi
Can anyone please advise whether this hydrangea has outgrown it's pot ?
The pot is H28cm x W26cm (reducing to 22cm due to the lip of the pot).
If it is now too big, is it possible/easy to remove the plant and re-plant in a flower bed ?
Many thanks in advance, from a keen beginner !
DS
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I'd say it needs a bigger pot.
Unless it's inside a pot, inside that glazed pot, you'll have a right old job to remove it without smashing the glazed pot.
if it's jammed in there Dave, try running an old bread knife vertically around the edge of the rim to see if you can free it.
Talking of pot bound Hydrangeas,Hosta, those I gave you have been in those pots for four years.
these are from the same lot.
Thanks everyone for the brilliant answers !
It's been in there for under a year (from new) but I'd agree it does look a bit big now.
The pot is probably more important so I need to decide whether to leave it until the end of summer, or attempt removal and re-pot to a bigger pot (where presumably I'll have the same problem in a year or so). I planted an azalea in the (only) spot I had earmarked for this.
Decisions decisions......
It's out !
Was a bit of a struggle but got there in the end. Here she is in her new bigger pot (note - I took the nursery's advice and went for a 'pot within a pot' solution'.
Hopefully she'll take to it with no ill effects...
Thanks again for excellent advice. Bread knife was key
Well done Dave
I'd remove that plastic corset affair though. Just a thought.