The Ultimate Hydrangea Pruning Guide🌸 🌿 Know Your Type: Old wood bloomers → prune before August 15 New wood bloomers → prune after last spring frost ✂️ Where to Cut: Cut thin, floppy, crossing, or dead stems → right at the base 🌱 Five Common Scenarios: 🌼 Mixed stems: Remove weak old stems, keep strong new ones 🌳 All old stems: Cut inward-facing and weak branches 🍃 No leaves at base: Keep lower leaves, trim only the top 🌿 Young plants: Pinch the top to promote branching 🚫 No blooms this y

We don’t do any pruning of any types of hydrangeas in late summer or fall. Big leaf, mountain and oak leaf hydrangeas set their flowers in the summer for the next year. So we don’t prune those at all ideally. If we really must, it’s best to prune when the flowers open in the summertime. Plant these types of hydrangeas where they can grow into their full size so you don’t need to prune them. Smooth leaf hydrangeas, like Annabelle and incredible, and pinnacle type hydrangeas like lime, light and q