Safest way to plant a cutting from Hydrangia plants.
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I'm moving would like to take my Hydrangea plants with me. Should I dig them up or take cuttings?
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The choice is yours - You could do both to be safe (Belt and Braces)
That depends on your location ,for transplanting?
Both!
I dug mine up when I moved and was nervous about transplanting them at my new place. I used peat moss and they all came back beautifully
They are quite hardy, so you could do both , but dont leave your home naked....take cuttings so you can leave your lovely hydrangeas for the new owners.....and buy a few of the new varieties which are so nice, like limelight
something I learned from selling my nc home...take your plants that you love! buyers "ooh and ahhh" about your gardens and then the first thing they do is REMOVE THEM! we had a gorgeous koi pond, beautiful bushes, flowers etc, I left a lot of sentimental flowers from my childhood church and parents yard...only to find when I went back to the house I sold...they had all been taken out!!! was I broken hearted...I couldve taken them. lesson learned? when you have done something to your house/yard and you love it...if its portable...take it! when we just sold our wv house..I dug up every plant I had transplanted there, with me to fl. everything is doing great down here! good luck!
just the sentimental plants I had brought to wv with me! and the new owners arent plant people anyway...so no loss there.......I'm enjoying and nurturing the plants!
When the plant is finished blooming take a 4" cutting from the end of a branch (I usually do about 10 of them). Make sure the cutting has 2 joints on it. Trim the big leaves way back but leave a little of each one. Insert the cuttings into a styrafoam cup full of seed starter, no hole in the bottom. Put one joint below the starter, one above. Put one teaspoon of water on each stem every other day, in a bright window sill. In about 3 months they are ready to put in bigger pots, and by Christmas you have 10 lovely gifts that you "made" yourself! They will all bloom the following summer. But remember....the stems you originally cut from will not bloom the next year so get your cuttings from lower or back-side branches.