Wished it had more blooms and larger trusses… That Limelight I showed is in middle TN. Your hydrangea are lovely! I pruned it a tiny bit as my goal is to have it grow taller. my limelight are 3 years old, have had minimal pruning, and started the season as gorgeous 8 foot tall flower laden shrubs. This is a short Hydrangea paniculata known for its dark pink flowers. Limelight hydrangeas are a beautiful addition to your yard or landscape, and if you have them, you might be wondering how to take care of them. I normally remove the blooms off the weaker stems and leave blooms on stronger stems. The Oakleaf hydrangea is just as beautiful in leaf as in flower – maybe more so. A yearly pruning down to 18″-24″ results in fewer, and larger flowers. Another way to help prevent your hydrangeas from flopping over is to prune them sparingly. Wondering if you or your readers can help me out…. My Limelight while taller is not as heavy in bloom or as robust. This bony structured, open growing hydrangea with its loosely arranged blooms-gorgeous. I like them placed on top of a wall, where their cascading habit looks graceful and deliberate. Instead of removing flowers, you could remove some of the heavier leaves towards the ends, and secondary branches that aren't blooming. Limelight hydrangeas are a type of woody hydrangea that bloom in the spring. As my wife says: it looks like a giant sat on them. I bought a Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’ tree in the fall of 2012. Limelights droop all the time. "Warm temperatures and humid conditions can cause the stems of your hydrangeas to weaken and the blooms to flop over," explains gardening expert Melinda Myers . They do not require annual pruning but if needed they can be taken back by one-third of the size of the plant in the spring. One of the challenges of being a home landscaper or gardener is admitting that we are not totally in charge, and that a plant isn’t “out of control” just because it’s gotten bigger. For as big and bushy as we want our hydrangeas to become, if the blooms get too heavy or the leaves too expansive, you could have a problem. Just be advised that a hard pruning is a restorative pruning that may take 2 years to bring them back up to heavy blooming stage. We’ve tried pruning at different times. The flowers that summer may be slightly smaller, but the shrub's structure tends to hold the flowers more upright for a more attractive display in the garden bed. However, expect the flowers to bend the stems and flop to the ground. It's your call about trimming now, but I'd rather look at leaning flowers than none. Limelight hydrangeas that have gotten leggy and ungainly will respond to a pruning to within 18″-24″ above grade. Climbing hydrangea does tolerate a lot of shade. They produce large flowers that are notorious for their football shape and their rich coloring. I know my problem is too much shade so I cut two small trees down in front of it and also removed some lower limbs on taller trees. This is Little Quickfire, a shrub that grows three to four feet tall and wide. As this plant grows and more stems are produced, make a selection of the stems to keep and the stems to remove. Or at higher heights. And by the time it grows to six … Most hydrangeas require very little if any pruning and if you prune them too often or too early the stems will be very thin and they won’t be able to support the weight of the flowers nor will the branches be able to support all of the stems. Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’ blooms on new wood which means that it produces flowers on the current seasons growth. So much rain here too, the novelty of measuring it wore off days ago. This is more likely to cause them to bend over or droop. 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