Pretty sure I’ll be talking to myself the next time I take a shrub out of a pot.. time to “tickle these a bit”!

“Don’t put the water around its neck and choke it,” combined with the hand movements and choking sound = perfection. So hilarious, yet so accurate. Love it! ❤

fantastic video. I hate my clay soil till I watch your videos, and now I LOVE my clay soil. great to save water. I don't need to baby my plants with water all the time. thanks Jim.

Wish I watched this yesterday. I just planted some encore azalea in drought stress. Fingers crossed they champ it out. Lol.

Thank you for being so thorough, thank you for the close-ups, and also the pictures. It is so helpful to me!

My favorite hydrangea, so happy that you too love it. Nice to see this one showcased.

This is so helpful when you show your tips with the shovel for how high to plant the hydrangea. Thank you for your knowledge and sharing it!

I’m so glad you’re planting this type. I can’t wait to see how it progresses in your landscape I bought this type of hydrangea ‘Miss Saori’ about 3 years ago….and for some reason it keeps dying to the ground every year. Im in ENC zone 8a. I’m about to rip it out .

I have hardly heard about hydrangeas this year. Love it and I also love their color sensitivity to the acidity of the soil.

No complaints about a prolonged Spring from me in eastern NC! It is lovely not to transition from cold to hot in a few days - LOOOOng may it last!

Great soil you have. I've just transplanted a mini hydrangea but seeing how carefully you planted yours, I'm going to have to redo it. It was originally in a very hot, dry place and was suffering.....so I'm sure it will start to thrive in its new place. Thanks, Jo. (New Zealand)

Awesome! I just recently planted 2 Limelights. Congratulations on 200k😊

Great video all around! 😊 Appreciate the succinct summary of various hydrangeas and also planting tips applicable to a variety of plants

Absolutely beautiful Hydrangea flowers plants , such a great job you have done .

Thank you very much for the tip. I stay over here in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and I have the supreme Marriott hydrangeas. 4:17

Striking combo of bloom and foliage colors!

I just discovered you and you are great - so helpful! Thanks, Jim.

Jim, per your magic shovel, I'm on my second one trying to duplicate it-and think I finally got it. The first was too heavy and overbuilt. What's nice is my new Truper 31348 Tru Pro 47-Inch Trenching Shovel, 5-Inch Blade. It has an ash handle which is fairly light, but could be shortened a bit, or replaced with a lightweight fiberglass model. The head is sturdy but not overly heavy. I got it from Amazon. Per hydrangeas, I just planted three more today, White Wedding, and then came inside to see I'd just missed these instructions! But having followed you, I had watered them last night, and I scratched apart the root balls' sides, cut off the bottom, and planted them a bit high, etc. I've had trouble finding White Wedding and finally mail-ordered mine from Home Depot, which has send me excellent plants. These White Weddings were shipped from Southern Living HQ in Loxley Alabama, according to the box.

I loved the "don't choke it demonstration"!!!

I truly love the colors and textures of your garden, Jim. I really like the shovel handle as an example of how high to plant things. What did you fertilize the ground with earlier in the season? I learn so much from you!

Great video! Beautiful garden!

Thanks for that tip about holding off planting while in bloom. I think that's excellent advice. It just may save all of the full bloom hydrangea I've collected for Mother's Day already! ☺️🥂

Thank you very much. Video is on time 😂. My Miss Saori is on the way, ordered plant online, didn't found locally.

Great video, I always learn something

Thank you for a very helpful video.

I’ve never seen Miss Saori hydrangea but I want it! Lol I love hydrangeas and my yard is just not the place for them. My Let’s Dance Can Do hydrangea survived one of the worst sun burns I’ve ever seen last year and it’s come back beautifully. I decided to try a panicle hydrangea that I cannot remember the name of and a classic blue which isn’t going to bloom this year, it got damaged in the freeze. I wish I could grow them better but my yard so far has too much sun for them.

I grow seven hydrangeas in containers only. 2 large limelight’s, 2 mountain, firelight tidbit, little mauvette & Boho hydrangea. The only one planted in the ground is a pink Gatsby oakleaf hydrangea. If I had the garden space they would all be in the landscape. Can’t get enough of them.

I just got one from brookgreen gardens is a rosy splendor looks similar to yours 🎉

i want to plant on the west side in slight shade of a small tree somewhat blocking sunshine from south... and is next to the house foundation. I already have a annabelle further down in the corner of the house. at same area... it is the original blue or pink one according to acidic. It doeesnt do well inside during the winter. I could try it in the porch. zone four wisc i could do the east side where there are more annabelle. just less roon there... right now it got too dry and the leaves got redish... not blooming much cause of all it has been through. i think i might plant in cool august after i aclimate it to the sunlight.

Thanks Jim. 🌷💚🙃

Hello, kelly! Thanks for this video! Have you ever planted a hydrangea on a slope? Will it grow upwards, upright, after compensating for the slope? Or is it going to droop over down the incline and tip over if I don't assist it and growing upwards? It's not a huge incline. Maybe 35°

Excellent info. Thank you for your efforts 🙏☺️ Cairns. Far North Queensland. Sub tropical/tropical

“Long sleeve shirts days at 65 degrees.” Me in Maine like….65 degrees I’d have to be in shorts that’s hot! 🥵 😂

Hello From Indiana! I’m new to hydrangeas, and despite doing research beforehand, I am failing my hydrangeas! Just saw your video, and I am fairly certain I transplant shocked my already blooming Endless Summer variety hydrangeas. I also don’t think I loosened my roots enough. What can I do now to help them? Should I dig them up and loosen the roots? They are wilting by afternoon but not really recovering much in the evenings, despite me being very conscious of water amounts. I planted them on the north side of the house like my nursery told me to, but they are not tolerating the full sun like they “should” be. Thanks for your help!

Good Info

Mr. Putnam, we are new to the area, having moved here from Southern Nevada seven months ago. I fell in love with Hydrangeas as soon as I saw them. I bought four of them at a Farmers Market in Greensboro, not knowing what I was getting. I just planted them on the west side of the house so, they get, intense, full force sun in the afternoon. Then I stumbled across your channel. Now I know, from watching you, that one of them is a Paniculata, pruned to a tree shape. The other three are Macrophylla. Two of the Macrophylla handle the afternoon sun well, but the other one severely wilts, only to rejuvenate itself by morning. My question is this: could I relocate the one that struggles now (mid-June in Statesville NC) or wait until Fall? I intend to put it on the East side where it will get good morning sun and be shaded in the afternoon.

hi you have an amazing flower garden. may I know what are those names of flower plants?

Do you have any videos on how to tree up a hydrangea? I really like that idea

Which nursery did you buy your hydrangea at? I'm having a hard time finding the Miss Saori. Thanks!!

Newbie here🙋‍♀️. Im about an hour east of you, jim. I just purchased some Hydrangeas and wanted to re-pot them. Would that shock them just as bad as planting in ground?

Could panicle hydrangeas also wilt due to being too waterlogged in a container? I had a little lime that just kept wilting when the temperature went up, but it got plenty of shade through the hottest part of the afternoon sun. The leaves and the flowers weren't scorched either. It flowered beautifully and then all of the sudden it was a wilted mess before it finally died.

Are you recommending doing that rootball above the ground technique for all plants or just hydrangeas? Sorry if an ignorant question.

Hi. Which do you recommend for Miami?

Some of my hydrangeas look dead. I was told to cut them down, I am west of Atlanta Georgia. What do you suggest. It was very cold here at christmas.

I'm in NC, zone 8A, which hydrangea would you recommend?

I have Endless Summer hydrangea. It has never bloomed it receives part sun, I've added epsoma land and sea.....should I just give up on it.?

I wish you could see how the builder made volcanoes around all of the trees. I don’t know where that came from but it’s horrible. We’ve lost a lot of trees also.

That is what happens to my sun coleus or at least one of them. I suppose I need to move it away from the brick wall. The sun can stress these big leaf plants to wilting so how does high humidity play into this picture? This is something you can go over again and again and again.

All I have is shade all around my house which hydrangeas like all shade??

I live in west TN and our hydrangeas don't bloom, we got them from lowes, our oakleaf hydrangeas bloom like crazy. We don't know what to do to get them to bloom

Greetings from Switzerland :-) I have a couple of hydrangea macrophyllas in the ground, and the leaves on their stems are very small this year, while leaves coming from the base are the normal size. Could they have been stunted by late frosts, or is something else going on? I have fed them and took care of them same as any other year, it is the first time I see leaves these small. All other hydrangeas I have in other places (less exposed than where these two are) are growing just fine.

How do I know what zone I live?

Imma get you a real shovel 😂

I wonder why the leaves get a tint of purple on them

I grown Hydrangeas for 2-3 years but on flowers yet these Hydrangeas I had problems with

My flowers are damaged, do not what to do , cut them ?? Help

I've lost 4 put of 5 Hydrangea, no idea why they died, something ate the roots or something else happened. Males me sick, so expensive, now GONE!!! I HAD BLUE, PURPLE AND PINK. All of mine are in mostly shade, late day shade bed. So we hats going on????

Jim what zone are you planting this hydrageas?

Went to walmart and bought a couple of the big mothers day better homes and garden hydrangeas. Alot cheaper than the ones sold at the nursery Has anyone ever planted them and did they come back?

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I live in Toronto every year I plant them in different spots and they die and never grow again ;(

Do they have a fragrance?

How do you keep the deer from eating the hydrangea

Is it too late to move a limelight in 7b Thanks

You planted that hydrangea in 5 minutes! It takes me like an hour to plant a shrub. 🤣 Guilty of being a million dollar hole digger.

What happened to your fig tree?

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No biotone? 😂