Our Hydrangeas Look Different This Fall

Hey everybody, greetings from northern Michigan and today I thought I'd take you on a little tour of the panicle hydrangeas because they've been getting their color and looking really really good. So I'm going to show you a couple different varieties. I won't know the names of every variety I show you but I'll be able to give you a pretty good idea of how some of these do and how they compare. So let's just take a little closer look. So this one here is a vanilla strawberry. So this is one of the first ones that really got this beautiful dark color. So it turns a hot pink first and then you'll start seeing these darker richer more mauve and burgundy colors. Now if your hydrangea leaves or petals start turning brown a little prematurely that usually means that it just had a little bit of a drought situation. This gets no supplemental water so that would explain maybe we had a little stretch where there wasn't that much water. And if you like a hydrangea that has this kind of trunk, what you just do is as it's growing you just keep stripping branches off the bottom and that gives you that open bottom and then you get more of a canopy up on top. So it's a nice way to do it. Now I'm going to take you farther down and show you some of the other ones. So from this spot you can see the difference between another vanilla strawberry and again we had some drought-like conditions and these got a prematurely brown and this is next to a regular limelight. This one's on standard so it's got tree form and you can see how much different the coloring is on this. Now this one did start turning brown but this is pretty normal as far as the type of pink. We might sometimes get a little bit more of a lavender going on it. Let's see if we can get a good look at some of the color there. But again probably drought conditions are what caused this one to turn brown a little bit earlier than normal so we don't usually have that problem. But I'll show you a couple other ones and hopefully they're not all going to have these conditions. So this one here doesn't have quite as much of the brown but you'll notice beautiful flower head on this one. This one probably was getting a little bit more water. It is farther down the hill so that might have been part of the reason why. I think this one is a strawberry sundae so this one is a little bit more of a compact version of that vanilla strawberry. And you'll notice there's a lot of different bloom times on these and mainly that's because this year our summer and our warm weather came so late this year that we really weren't able to get our blooms as early as we normally do. So we're seeing like this one usually this would be much farther along. This one over here I'm not exactly sure which one this is but it's probably a limelight or a little lime. And again we're running into that well actually it's only the sunny side that dried out the other side is getting pretty nice color. So I'll take you down the driveway we'll look at a couple more of these over here. Now this one here is a limelight prime and so if you look at it now this one is having a little bit drought but it does get a lot more color than some of the other ones. So that's one of the advantages to limelight prime. Blooms a little earlier better color. Then we come over here this one is called white diamonds and so this is much more of a lacy type of hydrangea flower. So almost looks more like an oak leaf flower. You're going to see a similar character in the pinky winky. Pinky winky I really enjoy this one because it just gets these long panicles. So I think it's really really good color. This one here is a strawberry sundae. So this one's going to be smaller than the vanilla strawberry but again this one this year I'm going to be honest with you we we did probably have some watering issues. So if you look at some of my previous videos from this walk at this time of year you're going to see a little bit better color a little less browning going on on some of these. Let's just see what we have on this side. This one is another limelight prime and then we'll walk past some of the annual containers. This one is a little lime punch. So again that color on the little lime punch as well as the limelight prime really really really nice. This one here is a pufferfish and so you can see how this one gets these beautiful kind of displays of flowers and just covered. I mean just look at how many blooms are on there. Again in this grow bag it was really hard to keep watered this season. There was a lot of really dry windy conditions this summer that they said they had a really hard time trying to get that to to work for them. Here's another limelight prime. I think we have a lot of limelight primes because those came in at a certain time. Now I've got to try to figure out what this one is because this one did not have any drought issues. So you can see how nice the color is. This one might be a little lime. Yep this is a little lime. So little lime is like a limelight but stays a little smaller. So you can see you know it it gets that nice kind of lavender mauvey color but not the intensity of color that we'll see on some of the other ones. This is a little hottie and so nice and a little hottie. It does have these nice green leaves and so they're kind of crinkly. They have a nice look to them. This one a little water stress but you can see the cones on these are kind of more compact and it gets a lot of them. So when it's in full flush it is absolutely beautiful. It gets a lighter pink color so you're not going to see the color change that you see on some of the other ones. Let's see what do we have over here. This one another little lime. This one's another little lime. So our little limes are doing really well this year. So I'm not sure that's just kind of how it works out. This is a regular limelight. Now this one a lot of times we'll get bigger blooms on our limelights but I think it's in a smaller container. Might not have gotten as much water as normal. This is probably a bobo and you can see how full these bobos get and we got good color on it but again we're getting that browning again this year. So I apologize for that because normally we'd be able to show you a little bit more of a show on these but hey that's just how it is. The conditions were different this year than normal and we didn't adjust for it. Little lime or limelight prime. Limelight prime. This one's got big flowers. Which one is this one? So this one is a firelight. I love the firelight. It's nice big blooms. Great color on this one. So this one is always a nice addition. That's another bobo. Another limelight prime. See we've sold off these so a lot of these have um we sold up sold them through so we replaced them with what we had. This is a moonrock and so moonrock gets these really more tight kind of lumpy bumpy flowers. They're actually quite nice. They do get a little bit of pink on them so a lot of people want to know like which ones get pink which ones don't. The color can vary on this one. This one apparently bloomed really late. It's kind of strange. I think it might have gotten some deer damage is what I'm thinking. So I'm guessing the deer nibbled on it early in the season and then it shot up this new growth. That's my theory anyway. Let's see we'll pop over this stuff. I don't know if there's anything new in here. I think this might be the pinky winky prime and just take a look at that panicle there. I mean that is just stunning. You've got nice color coming off of this one. I'm guessing it's another little lime. Let's see. I can't see the tag on that one. So kind of a mix of plants in here. Another firelight. So this is a good example of how the firelight does as far as getting color and these are going to keep getting a little bit darker as the nights get cooler and we get farther in the season. Oh I love the flowers on this one. Which one do we have here? This one is I'm going to check the tag. Oh shoot I can't read it. Dog on it. I would love to know what that one is because it's looking really really nice. Another now this is a pinky winky that obviously blooming a little late than we would expect but again we had such a weird season that it's really hard to kind of figure out. Now why doesn't I wonder why this one blooms so late. I'm looking to see if the deer nibbled on it or what had happened there. And then over here another pinky winky prime. Oh this is a diamond rouge. I love diamond rouge because a lot of times we've gotten flower heads on this the size of a football. So this is actually small for this one but it is in a small grow bag so that could explain it. But I love how it gets a really nice hot pink color that will then change to a burgundy. Some more these are kind of all similar varieties that I've already shown you. And then this is a vanilla strawberry. See some of these it's really unusual because like this one's just starting like it's just starting to blush whereas these other ones are very very dark burgundy. So it's just it's interesting how how different they are this year. This is not the behavior that we normally expect. So more oh here's a pufferfish and yeah this one must have had some water issues but that's okay. So we got another diamond rouge here. So we're starting to see that ruby color that we're going to get off that diamond rouge. And this one oh look at yeah that's really a nice one that is a limelight prime. Oh this diamond rouge though does not look nearly as good as this one. So this one was under some stress. We definitely know that. And here at the end let's see what we have. So that's a limelight prime. That's a pufferfish right there. And this one is going to be a pinky winky prime. So there's more. I think I'm going to show you some other ones that we have up by the uh the neglected row. So let's head on over there. Okay this area here we call the neglected row. It gets no supplemental water. We do try to put some compost every year out here but I don't even think we got that far this year. So this one here is a diamond rouge. So this is more of what I expect from the flowers although sometimes they're a little fuller and a little bigger. This one was planted I think this spring though. So it's not actually well rooted and it still did quite well. This one over here is the a new one. It's called french manicure. And the thing about this one they they call it that because the tips are supposed to stay white. But I'm not sure. It seems like we're getting color all the way to the tip. But again because of the water issue it turned brown before we could really get a sense of how the color was going to go. That's just an issue this year and next year we're going to have to adapt for that. Now over here if you're looking for color I'm just going to tell right here. This spring sizzle is incredible. It blooms really early and the color is pretty much unmatched. It gets this beautiful hot pink color really early and then that just kind of keeps graduating to more of this ruby color. And it's doing really well. I planted this last year from a two gallon and so it's taken pretty well. Planted at the same time as I planted this limelight prime. Now one thing I will say is that overall now this limelight prime the deer started nibbling on and there's some nibbling going on over there too. So we have not been spraying these. So this isn't really indicative of how they would perform. If you were maybe giving them a sprayer you didn't have a deer issue. But you can see the branching on the little lime punch. Is that what I called it before? I hope I did. Little lime punch is a little better. A little fuller. But the color over there and I think this is one that it's going to just take an extra year for this one to develop. If we keep this trimmed really nice I have a feeling we're going to get a you know really nice shape off of this one. It just is I think it's just a little slower. One thing I will say is that the leaves seem a little glossier than a lot of other hydrangeas that we have. Which is very very nice. So it's got a nice green color. We didn't have much problem with like chlorosis or anything on these. So that's kind of a nice feature on that. And I think this one down here is probably a is it a berry white? Let me check. Yeah this one's berry white. Sorry for sending you onto the ground there. So this one definitely needed more water this year. You can see it's showing its signs of stress in the leaves here. But still did okay. And berry white's nice because it tends to get one of the darkest reds as well. So it's not going to be as early as the spring sizzle. But it's still very very nice. And these three right here are all quickfire fabs. And I will still say this is one of my favorites. So these panicles are a lot smaller than the ones that are at my house. And part of that might be just some of the stress that this one's under without having much fertilizer added or compost and not much water. But still covered in blooms. Great color as well. This is another early one. So not quite as early as what we saw with the spring sizzle. I have a feeling that's going to be the one to watch. But you can see all three of them doing pretty well all planted at the same time. Okay so that is the state of the hydrangeas. And I have to apologize this isn't the best year that we've had here. And part of it were those drought conditions and we didn't accommodate them with more water. But you can still they still look pretty good considering they're under more stress than normal. If you want to see them in their prime though watch like last year's video and the year before that. I think those are the ones that really show you how our hydrangeas usually look and you can see what good color we get off of them. So I appreciate you guys watching and I do have more hydrangea videos. So I have a whole playlist. So if you want to watch more tours of hydrangeas hey go ahead and check that out.