Although farmer's or garden hydrangeas are much more common in German gardens, the panicle hydrangea, which usually has white to pink flowers, is much better suited to the local climate due to its higher winter hardiness. It thrives in sunny to partially shaded locations and requires little care.

Panicle hydrangeas should be fertilized with organic fertilizer and watered sufficiently

Provide panicle hydrangeas with organic fertilizer

Panicle hydrangeas like humus and nutrient-rich and acidic to neutral soil, but they often do well in poor, slightly alkaline soil. If your panicle hydrangea is in a rich substrate, fertilizing with organic material is basically sufficient. Work plenty of mixed compost or cattle manure (€18.80) and horn shavings (€32.93) into the root area in the spring before they sprout; a little later you can also mulch this region. Mulching also has the advantage that the moisture stays in the soil and you have to water less.

Pour panicle hydrangeas sufficiently

In comparison to other hydrangea species, panicle hydrangeas are quite insensitive to drought. Of course, you shouldn't have to be thirsty, after all, hydrangeas generally need a lot of water. Mulch the root zone and regularly check the plant for signs of water starvation. Water vigorously in dry seasons and in summer, whereby watering is best done in the early morning or evening hours, especially in the warm season.

Complete fertilizer only necessary on lean soils

Sometimes the organic fertilization of panicle hydrangeas is not enough, so you have to supply your panicle hydrangea with mineral fertilizer. This is especially true for specimens on nutrient-poor soil, but also for potted plants. Panicle hydrangeas cultivated in pots should be supplied with a suitable fertilizer about every 8 to 14 days, with a liquid complete fertilizer being particularly suitable. Fertilizers suitable for hydrangeas are:

  • hydrangea fertilizer
  • rhododendron fertilizer
  • or azalea fertilizer.

In order to prepare the panicle hydrangeas for winter in good time, you can first reduce and then stop fertilizing from the end of August.

Yellow leaves indicate a lack of nutrients

If the leaves of your panicle hydrangea turn yellowish, with the leaf veins often remaining green, then there is chlorosis, i. H. a nutrient deficiency. However, this can have many causes and does not have to be due to insufficient fertilization. Panicle hydrangeas are very sensitive to waterlogging. The rotting roots, in turn, can no longer adequately supply the above-ground parts of the plant, which promptly leads to chlorosis. So check exactly why your panicle hydrangea is suffering from a deficiency and then take targeted remedial action.

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An unsuitable, i. H. too alkaline or calcareous soil. In such a case, mixing in rhododendron or bog soil helps.

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