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MikeC

Long story short. I bought this Hydrangea at the beginning of summer and added it to my new flower bed. The issue was, the soil was predominantly clay and despite me mixing with compost, after a large rainfall turned the bed in to a bucket of water and drowned half my flowers. I decided to salvage whats left of this plant and put her in a pot, with the hopes that I can revive the roots fast enough for her to survive the winter. Any advice on what I should do? You can see that most the stems are dead, this is the last living stem with a (surprisingly) still alive flower. Should I just give up??

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  1. BritneyMC

    Keep her around! You never know. In the spring hydrangeas grow new shoots off of their dead woody branches so she might surprise you.

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    • MikeC

      Do I just let her ride out the rest of the summer and keep her out for the winter/ hope for the best?

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    • BritneyMC

      Yep! I keep mine in pots also. I’m in the PNW so as soon as it dies off I just let it be outside.

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  2. Christina

    My hydrangias are also in clay. They come back every year. They dont bloom a lot or get real big but they always show up🤗

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    • MikeC

      😳 what!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. Shayla

    I work at a nursery in zone 3 with clay soil and this happens to customers often. Looks like a flowerfull or Annabelle hydrangea? Both of those varieties you trim in late winter and early spring because the blooms will come from new wood. The foliage looks light green- when that happens to us we fertilize the soil to promote new healthy growth.

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    • MikeC

      Yes!!!!!! That’s exactly what it is. The surrounding soil is clay so I dug a trench and filled it with part clay part compost. We had heavy rainfall for 2 days and then I noticed the leaves yellowing up and flowers turning brown. I stuck my finger in the soil and it was all water! So I raised the root ball so it was two inches above the original mix. But one by one everything was dying and that’s when I transferred to the pot! I was gonna let it ride out the rest of the summer in the pot. Go through winter and if it comes back next year and it’s stronger I’ll try again with the garden bed. Does that all sound like it makes sense??

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  4. Rhus

    Just to throw it out there... Turning clayey soil into good garden soil takes an absolutely absurd amount of organic matter. If you will be staying in your house for a few years and would like to fix the clay, just keep at it with the compost and mulch and you will start to see results eventually. "The hidden half of nature" has a great detailed description of someone doing this in a particularly bad yard if you're very interested in the topic!

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