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Hydrangeas
cearbhaill

Goodbye Quickfire :(

5 years ago

Installed in June of 2008 and a disappointment every year since. It's color only ever went from white to brown- if there was ever a hint of pink it lasted maybe ten minutes. It was lovely while white but once it started to turn each year I liked it less and less.




I tried keeping it more consistently moist, tried ignoring it, and did everything I know to do. But it's such a large shrub (fence is six feet) and in such an important spot that I knew sooner or later the day would come.

Well, it came this week.




Now replaced with a Fire Light®- I tried one in another spot last year to verify the color and it seems to be a big improvement, so fingers crossed.


And I must take a moment to express my undying thanks to the man with the shovel, Mr. Cearbhaill, who will dig and transplant and do anything I ask of him, and lord knows over the years I have asked a lot. "If we could move that over just eight inches or so..."

This was an enormous job and he did it well and without too much complaining. He dug the thing and drug the stump 400 feet to the giant compost pile in the woods. He asks for so very little in return- some dinner and a chocolate chip cookie in his lunch every day and he's happy.


So out with the old and in with the new and RIP Quickfire.

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  • 5 years ago

    For me Quickfire is one of my favorite plants in my garden. I think that it may be temperature related as Luis suggested . Here in northern New England we have temperatures cool enough at night to get lovely color development.

    I think that this is a great example of right plant, right place.

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