Try again:
Good annabelle:
[URL=http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w268/josielovesdan/?action=view&current=DSC02479.jpg][IMG]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w268/josielovesdan/th_DSC02479.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Deformed annabelle:
[URL=http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w268/josielovesdan/?action=view&current=DSC02480.jpg][IMG]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w268/josielovesdan/th_DSC02480.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[IMG]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w268/josielovesdan/DSC02479.jpg[/IMG]

deformed:
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w268/josielovesdan/th_DSC02480.jpg

Why not try posting the photos as links, use the boxes at the bottom, that works better for me.

Joanne, copy the HTML address under the picture and paste in the message box on this forum. That's all there is to it. Click on "preview" and you can see your pic.

You can type before and after the picture.

Kate

Kate, I'm so frustrated! That's what I've been doing...just taking the HTML address, cutting and pasting it in the message box. When I click on preview I never see my pic! I'll try this time to do what the previous poster said and post it in the link box....see if this works

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:995553}}

Joanne, you are having a bad day, aren't you!

I'm not sure what you are copying and pasting, but it is not the right thing.

SAVE the HTML CODE.
Do not "cut" anything. The HTML CODE is ready to go as is.
PASTE the HTML CODE in the message box.

That's it.

I repeat: you do not need to do anything with the long address that you save. Just paste it. Period. You're done.

Kate

I can see a photos of something, but it is very small and I can't tell if it an annabelle. I would say it look dead and I don't think it can come back from that. Mine died of cold, even thought and did not look that bad. I don't think it has enough of the "woody growth" to live. What you want is woody growth that is big enough to make a come back. If a hydrangea is a small size and lacks woody growth it is likely to die when faced with a trauma.

joannemb, just give it more time. Annabelles are tough plants. The branches may look dead NOW, but you may be surprised by how much growth there will be later.

It's still March in Northern Ohio - it's still EARLY!!! Give it a chance... :-)

I second ostrich's comment. My Annabelles always start growing much later than I think they should.

Kate

I guess I'm referring more to the shape though.... My healthy one (of course my pictures were a bust--not helping me explain--lol) looks so straight and upright, but the other one's branches are so bent and mangled. It is alive, and made it through last summer fine---it just looked so unshapely. The branches at the very base are growing every which way instead of up.... So I guess what I'm really asking is there a way of pruning it so that it is "pretty" again this summer instead of out of shape and just plain ugly?

joannemb, if you really don't like those branches, you can even prune them all the way down, and then you will have new ones coming out later in spring :-)

I am sorry, but the photo was very tiny. I wanted to help, but I can not see anything in that photo. Is there a way to post a bigger one? At least here on my end, it's a tiny thumb nail in the corner of the screen. I can not tell that it has any new growth. Mine was dead. I could have kept it around to see if it came back, but I wanted to get past it. I may depend on how much space you have. If I take something out, I room for something new. I say, if you don't like it take it out. That is just my theory of gardening. Anyway, you can cut them back a lot and get rid of the curving look.

Thank you---I went out and pruned them both (the mangled one almost to the ground) and the healthy one to about a foot off the ground. I'll just have to wait and see. Like tropical thought I just want to yank it---but my thrifty husband (I fondly call him 'taffy pockets') isn't thrilled with my impatient trait. I hate waiting :)