12/5/2023 0 Comments Submerge hydrangeas![]() ![]() This week's British, seasonal posy (17 June 22) includes homegrown hydrangeas but every week is different! Click here if you'd like to order one of our British, seasonal posies for next week. Go the extra mile to extend the life of your hydrangea bouquet by giving your flower stems a thorough trim after submerging in water. Because the sepals as well as the stem can take in water directly, after about 3 hours the hydrangea will have rehydrated and should be as good as new to enjoy for many days to come. Do physically dunk the flower head to make sure it's been thoroughly coated in water. If the whole thing is droppy and wilting, it is possible to take it out of the vase, recut the stem and submerge all of it (stem and flower head) in a sink of cool water. If the flower head just needs a little lift, a quick squirt with a water spray will spritz it up and rejuvenate floppy sepals. Fear not, even though they look miserable, the damage is typically reversible. Water your hydrangeas regularly to keep them consistently moist, especially in hot and dry weather. You can completely submerge hydrangea blossoms for around 45 minutes if they begin to prematurely wilt. Hydrangeas make a good cut flower but they can sometimes wilt when cut or in hot weather and that can be disappointing. Plant in well-draining soil with plenty of organic matter. Hydrangeas are an amazing shrub to fill your borders with colour in the summer and when their leaves and blooms change colour in the autumn they're just as lovely. Give the hydrangea a thorough soaking at the base daily for the first. Gently loosen the roots, then plant using plenty of rich soil. Dig a hole as deep as the root ball and 2-3 times as wide. Plant your hydrangea in spring after the danger of frost has passed. The flower 'petals' are actually sepals, so what we are really looking at are inflourescences with tiny flowers in the middle but we won't hold that against them. Learning how to care for hydrangeas starts before the plants are even in the ground. It's June and, yippee, the hydrangea flowers are coming out in the garden.
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