Oh, wow. Super nice. How old are they? They seem to be maybe 4 or 5 feet tall? How many plants you have in the hedge? How many feet apart did you plant them? I am jealous!

That's approximately a 40 ft hedge. 8 plants 5 feet apart. About 6 feet tall.

Sept 4th , VS takes on this color in September as the nights cool

Wish I could get a hedge like that but it is too hot for paniculatas in August/September so the blooms prematurely brown out. First half of Sept can be in the 100s so I need a later blooming VS! Ha!!!! Hmm, that reminds... I wonder if a Tardiva might work better because it blooms later (but it probably does not produce the same nice shade of pink... grr...). Ha.

One thing that might help is to delay pruning. Instead of pruning start of spring delay it. The key as you say is to get it to flower later in the season when temperatures are cooler.

I tried that with QF but it did not help much. Granted, QF is very early blooming and it leafs out early here too (March-April or earlier). But it was the one I had. VS is still sold as if it made out of gold locally so I hate to plunk a lot of cash if it will bloom poorly. I am waiting for price drops now so I can just get one and experiment.