"It’s confusing if searching online, because we find complicated recommendations for hydrangea types that aren’t well adapted for Northern gardening," Don Kinzler writes.

White, cone-shaped clusters of flowers ... is a beautiful native shrub that produces large blooms on new wood. When to Cut Back Smooth Hydrangea: It’s best to let this plant grow for one or ...

A: The shrub in your photo is a panicle-type hydrangea with its cone-shaped, pyramidal flower clusters. Unlike the Annabelle-type hydrangeas with large round white ... cut the entire shrub back ...

With lush white blooms that often ... crispy and discolored. Peegee hydrangeas will begin to fill in with new growth in the spring. The best time to cut back the old stems is in early spring ...