Hydrangeas: Three year old Limelight, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
I will need to move or start some new VS in full sun as mine never got strawberry in them and this year the blooms weren't that good. Too much shade.

I pruned the heck out of the big Limelight above this weekend. I kept a lot of the bigger stems for propagation. Two large 30 gallon trash bags filled with cuttings - perhaps 100 or more. Was about half way through the second bag yesterday cutting the blooms off and bottom leaves when it started to rain. Hopefully finish it later today.

The height was probably 8 feet and the spread at least 8 to 10 feet before pruning. After pruning - a skeletal frame for next year. Two piles of cuttings (one from behind the bush and one from the front side). A close up of one of the piles. An equal amount of discarded limbs went on the compost heap (not shown since DG only allows five pics).