Hydrangea 'Endless Summer' - care and 15 cutting tips

• particularities
• maintenance
• To cut

Hydrangeas have all the potential to convince the viewer of their beauty, large round flower balls with many single flowers appeal to most people.She can inspire a hydrangea whose flowers bloom all summer long, and they do that in the hydrangea 'Endless Summer':

particularities

Endless Summer® 'The Original' is a 'child' of the American hydrangea breeder, Prof. dr. Michael Dirr, who discovered this world's first multi-flowered farm hydrangea in a pilot plant. He named it 'Endless Summer' and immediately started marketing it, the launch of the first Endless Summer ('The Original') was celebrated in 2004 as a botanical sensation.

If it is, the name says it all, 'Endless Summer' will flower tirelessly throughout the summer and will replant every 6 weeks like a remounting rose. Always particularly large ball-shaped flowers, in contrast to "normal hydrangeas" on old and new wood.

The winter hardiness should be exemplary, "All endless summer flower guaranteed every year, no matter how hard the winter, they are extremely frost hardy to -30 ° C" promises the website of a German Pflanzenhandels-GmbH. This is equivalent to USDA hardiness zone 4a / 5b, in Germany it will not be colder than 5b, but there are reports that Endless Summer did not bloom as endlessly as promised.

Dr. Michael A. Dirr just said in an interview to plants that are not growing as promised: He had listened to people whose 'Endless Summer' in Zone 5 and 6, no multiple flowering developed, and it was always located in the care (old Flowers not removed, not fertilized, not watered), but a season could be too short for multiple flowers. The genetic plant for multiple flowering has been tested endlessly, and over 20 million have been sold in over 10 years, Endless Summer '. He and his team had a firm grip on the multiple blooms in zones 7 and 8 and also received good performances from the 'Endless Summer' in zone 4, 5, 6 (Interview: extension.psu.edu/plants/gardening/news/2014/ an-interview-with-michael-dirr).

Well, Dr. According to a statement "Becoming a gardener since he jumped out of the uterus" and gardening for about half a decade, he will certainly be better able to handle his discovery than a gardener who is just starting (and maybe in harsh areas as well once the season is too short for multiple flowers). But the 'Endless Summer' has certainly not made such a steep career for no reason, today she belongs with the now-developed siblings 'The Bride', 'Twist-n-Shout' and 'BloomStar' the most famous hydrangea family in the world.

maintenance

The care of the 'Endless Summer' is basically the same as with any other Hydrangea, just with a little more care if you want to see permanent flowering:

• The botanical name "Hydrangea" does not mean "water vessel" without reason, hydrangeas love water
• Water shortly after planting at least once a week, in dry and hot summer seasons too
• One time a lot more than often and only a little bit
• If you see lots of green leaves and few flowers, you've overdo it
• Fertilizer is important for flowering, slow-release fertilizer in spring
• NPK fertilizer with 7% nitrogen, 3% phosphate and 6% potassium is good (details on the packaging, NPK 7-3-6 or similar)

Tip: Endless Summer grows very compact and is therefore also suitable as a container plant, it even brings its own pretty light blue bucket with: Endless Summer

To cut

The Endless Summer needs little trimming, but the endless flowering requires care:

• Overall, 'Endless Summer' develops best without cutting
• Especially young / freshly grown plants will grow stronger if they are not pruned
• Here only beauty care is due, visually disturbing and transversely growing branches are removed
• If the Endless buzzer has to be cleared at some point, it can be done in the late summer
• More light in the inner area should have a positive effect on bud formation
• If an all-round pruning is pending, z. B. because the plant is too expansive, which is made in the spring
• After the last frost, until then, the last flowers of the preseason may protect the plant
• How vigorously cropped depends on the age of the hydrangea
• If the young Endless Summer is rooted and has gained strength, she may get a slight shape cut
• Older plants can be pruned more vigorously, in less space up to a third of the old shoots can be removed
• This causes a rejuvenation of the plant and promotes its growth
• The flowers should be removed again and again in wilting
• The best way to avoid it is to regenerate the hydrangea faster
• Fix the stems with your thumb and forefinger. Bloom can be easily broken off with the other hand
• Whenever you are fast, the Endless Summer becomes a perennial flower

Tip: Endless Summer is the ideal hydrangea for hobby florists, it constantly delivers new flowers for the vase or for drying, and the cut even promotes the bloom neoformation.