A reader seeks advice on why their hydrangeas are fading in color. Plus, Grumpy’s gripe of the week. "My French hydrangea ...

Annabelle smooth hydrangeas (Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle ... so pruning in early spring encourages an abundance of flowers. The Endless Summer® bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla ...

DEAR BRIAN: You don’t say what species of hydrangea you have, and that’s important because that would determine when it forms buds. Mopheads and lacecaps (both Hydrangea Macrophylla) and ...

Endless Summer is a Hydrangea macrophylla ... such the nearly bulletproof ‘Annabelle’ or the hills of snow hydrangea. So Chicagoans think they know how to grow hydrangeas, but Hydrangea ...

Endless Summer (‘Balimer’) is the first repeat-flowering mophead hydrangea. Blooming from ... have been developed from the well-known ‘Annabelle’. Flowering from midsummer to fall, the ...

The big-leaf hydrangeas are the ones that can be blue. The “Endless Summer” varieties are supposed ... The cultivar that has been around longest is “Annabelle”; my wife and I have had ...

Like mop-head types, Endless Summer grows about 3 feet tall and wide. Other Better Choices There are some hydrangeas that do really well in Iowa and are very pretty. The Annabelle hydrangea grows ...

Do not prune them back hard in late winter or early spring (as is commonly done with Annabelle hydrangeas ... Some of the new cultivars are ‘Endless Summer,’ ‘Twist-n-Shout’ and ...

Hydrangeas are one of the most popular flowers in the United States, thanks to their big, bouncy blooms that come in lovely shades of pink, blue, white, purple, and beyond. To get even more out of ...

Question: I have several Endless Summer hydrangeas, most of which have failed to bloom these last few years. This year buds and flowers began appearing in October just in time for frost.