This type of hydrangea is distinguished by its increased ability to escape. The plant in the process of growth takes the form of a bush or tree. Every year on it you can find the kidneys on young shoots, old wood and last year's shoots. So pruning a hydrangea with a panicle-like hydrendorf, a hydrangea of a tree, and other varieties should be strong enough.
How does pruning a hydrangea paniculate?
Conditionally, the whole process of forming a bush with the help of trimming can be divided into several stages.
- The first years of your task is to form a stem. It is necessary to delete without regret all zero shoots, annual ones simply pinch and tie vertically. When the bunch reaches a meter in height, you can begin to form the crown.
- For this purpose, using the trimming of last year's shoots, the crown is formed. Sometimes gardeners prefer to form trees with a pair of trunks for higher stability.
- When the tree is already grown, almost always pruning a panic hydrangea occurs in the spring. Here they work in several directions at once. Sanitary pruning involves the removal of all broken and dried twigs. Since the plant quickly thickens, one has to resort to thinning. As a result, pruning a hydrangea with a panicle suggests removing all small shoots with weak inflorescences, all branches with growth inside the bush.
- For varieties of hydrangea paniculate type Grandiflora pruning is suitable for flowering. Your task is to cut off all last year's shoots so that only two or three pairs of kidneys remain on them.
- Pruning hydrangeas after flowering is carried out approximately in late August or early in the autumn. During this period, remove all the ends of the shoots, which did not have time to grow lignified, and also dry inflorescences. During pruning hydrangeas after flowering, you can also remove all weak and very tonic shoots.