Step by Step: How to Deadhead Hydrangeas | Prune Hydrangeas

How to deadhead hydrangeas. You need to tidy up your hydrangeas. Is it looking like this with faded blooms? Want to learn how to properly cut off dead hydrangea flowers? In this video, I will show you how to deadhead hydrangeas. What is deadheading? Deadheading is removing the spent or dead flowers of hydrangeas. The main goal of deadheading is to tidy up your hydrangea shrub. Be careful when pruning your hydrangeas. Before I show you how to deadhead your hydrangeas, I'd like to warn you of the dangers of of pruning hydrangeas. Pruning hydrangeas can result in no flowers the following year. If you cut off a large portion of the stem, you can actually cut off the flower buds. The flower buds are the flowers for next year. I personally just deadhead some flowers so the shrubs look neat and tidy. But I don't prune much further than that. And when it's late summer, I stop deadheading my hydrangeas and I just let the dead hydrangea flowers dry up. I think the dried hydrangea flowers makes it visually more attractive. How to deadhead hydrangeas? The key to deadheading hydrangeas is to know where to cut. Cut just below the spent hydrangea flower and above the first set of leaves. Make sure you don't cut off any flower buds. Cut above the flower buds. Your goal with deadheading is to just tidy up your hydrangeas by removing the dead flowers. That's it! Don't be tempted to prune any further. Remember your hydrangeas are low maintenance plants and don't require pruning. When to deadhead hydrangeas? You can deadhead hydrangeas all summer long when the blooms start to fade. Stop deadheading hydrangeas in the fall. Or if you're like me, stop deadheading in late summer. Leave the dried hydrangea blooms on the shrub. Remember with hydrangeas, less pruning is better than over pruning. Please like and subscribe for more gardening videos like this. Thanks for watching!