hydrangea with no blooms

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  1. jw425

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    I have several types of hydrangea. Some have never bloomed and last year one had only one. This year it has none. It is a very large bush this year too. Please tell me what I am doing or not doing. I do trim the very large ones at the end of the season.
    One type, I have never trimmed and it still has not bloomed.
     
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    You say "types", but what are the species? macrophyllas?
     
  3. jw425

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    I'm sorry - don't really know the types beyond that two are supposed to be tree
    hydrangea and one is a dwarf.
    The other two I don't really know.
     
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    post some pictures up ;) all sorts of reasons why the various different species dont flower, frost, bad pruning, too much shade etc.
     
  5. marcieo

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    They mostly bloom on old wood so you may be pruning the next years buds off as they develop right after flowering I believe. I was told to not prune hydrangeas. I have to prune the fronts off mine every few years as they grow in the way of a fence gate- so I know the next year the fronts will be bloomless!!! I see some here that people prune to shape and they rarely have the abundant flowers mine have!!! IO am not sure as to the one you have not trimmed. I do have a "baby" that was propagted off another of mine and it is not blooming this year.
     
  6. jw425

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    Thank you for the information. I do trim them every year never thought it would
    affect the blooms.

    The two I have not pruned - one of them is now loaded with potential blooms. The other one I moved last year so it is not going to bloom yet.

    This is the first year I have seen it with blossoms , I guess it just wasn't old enough.
     

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