Hydrangeas: Crunchy Brown Leaf Edges Two Years in a Row!, 1 by pentasbutterfly

pentasbutterfly wrote:
My mother bought me a big hydrangea in a pot in the spring of 2007. I think it came from a supermarket not a garden center. I planted it two weeks later in late April. The label read Macrophylla and nothing else descriptive. The blooms were mostly pink. The leaves started getting brown edges and continued like that all summer. Finally, I cut back most of the branches since the leaves looked so bad. Now, this year I didn't get any blooms. Since I don't know the hydrangea type, I don't know if it blooms on old or new wood. I'm guessing old wood since I didn't get any blooms. Maybe I trimmed it too late in the summer for flower buds. Anyway, this year the leaves looked beautiful but eventually started getting the same brown edges! Why are the leaves doing this???