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Limelight hydrangeas and flies

6 years ago

Hi all. looking For thoughts on what is happening to my limelight. Planted it last summer In pa and this spring when it started flowering it was constantly covered with black flies. Now That flies are gone end of July, my blooms are all browning and seem to be dying. Any help would be appreciated.

Patty.

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djacob Z6a SE WI
5 years ago
It appears you never got an answer…….. I have an post on my own LLH tree form. I have never experienced the fly situation you describe. I am wondering if the same thing happened this year. Was it a problem in your reginal area perhaps? I would have suggested watering and perhaps an early cut back. People say you must trim in spring but i have trimmed in fall several times with great results the following spring. Most hydrangea experts say you can trim any time, but most of us wouldnot do a hard cut back while the tree is in bloom. I am very interested to know what happened. I just saw this post as I was revisiting an old post from October 6th 2020, called my limelight hygrangea tree. I would like to know what happened.

debra

ps I usually hang out on the hosta forum

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