Expanding my hydrangea bed

5 years ago

Have a project for next month when the cooler(at least what passes for it here in Texas.
Gonna bring my hydrangea bed out further from the wall on one side. Picked up 4 new ones yesterday, technically 5 but will have to go back to nursery and get the 2nd summer crush. 2 summer crushes, 1 blushing bride, and 2 bloomstruck. Also have a Mathilda Gutges, Alpengluhen(burning embers), Miss Saori, and Sabrina coming. Want to get a harlequin to try but waited to long to order it.
Gonna move one of the 2 pannicles that are too close together(limelight and a firelight never get the red color here), will also probably move my oak leaf from the other side of the wall where it is squashed between an endless summer and a Nantucket blue/Nikko repeat. Also yanking out the two florist hydrangeas I bought on the cheap at Walmart for mothers day. They are disease magnets.

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kingcobbtx7b
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5 years ago

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kingcobbtx7b
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5 years ago

Made some progress. Gonna put down some mulch and peat moss now. Have a few more plants coming, plus waiting for cooler weather to transplant.
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gumneck 7A Virginia
5 years ago
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Love that wall. I am doing some revamping of garden beds but I need to make a plan first. I want to make my front garden beds looks a little more cohesive/together. Currently its a hodgepodge of hydrangeas, azaleas, boxwood, nandina and perennials. There is way too much going on. I am thinking of removing everything except the boxwood and a holly and replacing all the hydrangeas with a single type, either Little Lime Punch if I can find it next spring.
kingcobbtx7b
Original Author
5 years ago
The back side of the wall is solid blue hydrangeas in the spring, I want this one to have color variation. Looking at putting some sedges in with the hydrangeas to give a different leaf texture to the bed.
kingcobbtx7b
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5 years ago
Oh yeah, all the coleus and caladiums are coming out.
NHBabs z4b-5a NH
5 years ago
Great idea on the sedges.

Nice rock work.

Where in TX are you? I am amazed that your soil is acid enough for blue hydrangeas since I think of TX as having alkaline soil.
kingcobbtx7b
Original Author
5 years ago
I am in North Texas near the Red River. We live on a sandy hill that has a fairly neutral pH.