How I fix a flopped Limelight

@twinmomgardener

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The creator demonstrates how to prune a Limelight hydrangea to alleviate the weight of heavy blooms that are causing stems to bend. The goal is to remove the heaviest blooms to prevent stems from hardening in a flopped position, with the pruning done on a cooler, cloudy day.

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Deciding what to do with a flopped hydrangea is always a hard choice to make. You can stake, but for a large plant, that gets less and less practical as the plant size increases. You can leave it alone, but you risk stems hardening into their flopped position, which can be a problem for future pruning. Or you can try to relieve some of the heaviest weight and get some of the stems more upright in advance of your late winter/early spring pruning. In this video, I show how I do the last option. #hydrangeas #gardeningtips #pruning #gardening