Queen Anne's Lace Hydrangea hasn't bloomed in 2 years - help!

My grandmother had the most beautiful blue Queen Anne's lace outside her door on Cape Cod. My understanding from the old New England gardeners in my family is that hydrangeas need quite acid soil. Check with your garden store to find out what to use in your area. This might do the trick.

find out if the plant blooms on new or old growth. You may be pruning at the wrong time. Most flowering shrubs benefit from the removal of approxirately one third of the oldest canes, at ground level.

The blue ones need acidic soil to stay blue, otherwise they will turn pink or white. Perhaps is needs fertilizer or something. Have your soil checked to see if perhaps it is lacking in any essential nutrients necessary to flower. There are fertilizers made for the different colors of Hydrangea plants that I have seen in stores.

Check on line to see if you have a hydrangea that blooms on old wood or new. If you are trimming when you shouldn't this may be the reason. If you are over fertilizing, this can cause lots of nice growth but at the expense of flowers.

Check the ph levels of the soil. If it's not getting enough nutrients it won't bloom.

The blue ones have blue flowers, not just buds. Go to a trusted local greenhouse, they usually have employees that are very knowledgeable about these things, or will find out for you. They will know with the area both you and they are in if it needs something else. If the flowers are white, but the buds are blue, perhaps it is lacking in the acidity for the flowers themselves to be blue. They would be able to help you.

This is what I found. The link to the site is listed below.

As far as fertilizer goes, if your hydrangea’s leaves are lush and green but don't have any flowers, it could be that you're fertilizing too much. Hydrangeas bloom best if they are a little stressed.

High nitrogen-based fertilizers can actually inhibit flowers on most varieties, and in fact, some hydrangea growers never feed their hydrangeas and have great flowers and healthy leaves.

For optimum plant health however fertilizing twice a year is best. Once in early spring and again in late summer.

Use a good balanced granular fertilizer such as a 10-10-10 or 16-16-16. If you're still getting too much lush foliage and no flowers, then use a high phosphate fertilizer such as 10-52-10 to help your hydrangea produce flowers.

http://www.weekendgardener.net/garden-plants/growing-pruning-hydrangeas-041004.htm

Hope this helps!!

Try this site.

http://www.weekendgardener.net/garden-plants/growing-pruning-hydrangeas-041004.htm

"As far as fertilizer goes, if your hydrangea’s leaves are lush and green but don't have any flowers, it could be that you're fertilizing too much. Hydrangeas bloom best if they are a little stressed.

High nitrogen-based fertilizers can actually inhibit flowers on most varieties, and in fact, some hydrangea growers never feed their hydrangeas and have great flowers and healthy leaves.

For optimum plant health however fertilizing twice a year is best. Once in early spring and again in late summer.

Use a good balanced granular fertilizer such as a 10-10-10 or 16-16-16. If you're still getting too much lush foliage and no flowers, then use a high phosphate fertilizer such as 10-52-10 to help your hydrangea produce flowers."