Excellent. Thank you ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is the best video that helped me after watching SO many usless videos of people just showing off their garden your the most helpful!!! So thank you!! Sincerely.

You’re an amazing tutor, can’t thank you enough for this video! Nobody has ever explained this thoroughly and understandable how to prune a hydrangea macrophylla, most people say that ohhh, don’t prune them, or you’ll lose all the flower buds, and that’s all. I have a few macrophyllas for 4-5 years now, and they didn’t perform as much as I expected them, so now I’ll use your method and hope for the best. Thanks again, I’m happy that I discovered your video and your channel! 😊

This is bar none the best video for pruning Mophead Hydrangeas. I am going to watch it every year to make sure I get it right. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. I’ve had a big hydrangea in a big pot for six years and now it’s going to have a whole new life because of you.❤

I followed this video last year and my hydrangea flowered spectacularly! So, a year later, here I am again for a refresher. Thanks so much for putting this out there. The level of detail is really appreciated.

Just moved into my new house there are hydrangeas in the garden this is a very helpful video and how to take care of them lots of work ahead.

VERY comprehensive tutorial. More clear than a multitude of other Hydrangea videos I’ve watched. Thank you!!

You are the best teacher on this topic! I am so grateful for the time you took to show us exactly what and how to get beautiful hydrangeas. Thank You!!!

FINALLY! An amazingly comprehensive video that actually explains the how’s and the why’s. It was so empowering to finally understand mophead pruning. I was always afraid to prune because no other video actually showed the details the way you did. Gardening tutor is the perfect name. Can’t wait to see what I can do with my overgrown monsters. So glad I found you! My mop heads and I thank you!!

I just purchased some macrophylla hyrangeas and this video has been the best one yet. I love the way you are explaining with so much information, while you are actually doing the process. Thank you so much.

Mary Frost, you won my gardening heart! Thank you❤️

Great video:)) it's so nice to hear someone else that cares and has the knowledge about plant life ! Love it

By far the best pruning video on KZfaq. Very thorough and only one that teaches how to prune the leaves. I have a ton of stalks without buds and the plant is out of control. Very helpful. Huge thx n

I particularly enajoyed zooming in and getting a good clear look at what you where doing.

Best video I've seen. She shares the little tips that make all the difference. She is very thorough!! It's a long video, but worth it.

Mary, you do a great job explaining the process and showing important details. Thanks so much for this video! This will be my first time pruning (this coming spring) but first I have to figure out timing for transplanting the potted hydrangea into the ground. So lovely to have the insights your video provided.

Thank you so much whatched and pruned my mums hydrangea that she got 2 years ago before she died so i'm super happy it's still alive.

Am so, so thankful for this instruction video. I come back every year for a refresher course. You explained everything so thoroughly and clearly. My hydrangea and I thank you!

Thank you! This was the most comprehensive, informative video I've watched on pruning. I have a couple Hydrangeas that have gotten out of control and haven't really enjoyed. I'm hoping after following your tips they will look better next year :)

Thank you so much! I have watched multiple videos on Hydrangeas and this is the only I will ever need!! Well done!!!

Trimming based on the direction of buds is some next level stuff I never considered. Thank you!

Excellent. Thank you. So clearly explained. Please don’t stop making these wonderful instructional films

Your tutorial was good to watch because it clarified pruning techniques I didn't quite understand from other videos. Thanks for the verbal detail and the excellent close up shots. This is the best video I've seen.

Love to see a this years blooms 🌸🌸🌸 I really liked this video my husband was going to toss out the hydrangea potted plant he got me for my birthday because the mop heads are starting to turn green and dry but I’m going to do my best for it to stay healthy and blooming every spring/summer ❤️

I am new to pruning hydrangeas and have watched several videos. I really like how informative you are and take the viewer step by step educating us the whole way. Great job!!

Best video for mop head hydrangea. I’ve watched so many on this subject, this video helped me get to a more advanced level. I have several of this type of hydrangea. Now I can take this plant and make it over the top beautiful. I’m in Michigan, so I’ll be pruning soon. Probably closer to the end of April. Thanks Mary! Btw I use cottage farms acid fertilizer tabs to keep my Endless Summers blue. Thanks! You’re the best!!!

Great Video! I just pruned my 6 hydrangeas over the last two days. This video helped big time.

I'm new at this game and I just discovered answers to most-all of my pruning questions. Your video wasn't good, it was EXCELLENT! You now have a Hydrangea-friend for life. Thanks.

The best video I´ve seen yet for explaining mophead pruning. Right now, I have tons of new growth coming from the ground, and a lot of tall sticks from last year, and was wondering how much to cut back. I will go look for some buds!

Thank you. This is the best explanation I have ever watched. Have a blessed day.

I have looked for years on understanding what new growth is and how to prune correctly. I haven't been able to find any videos with such an informative description. I now understand! Thank you~

Thank you, thank you Mary Frost!!! I have trolled the internet for someone, anyone(!) to explain to me how to prune the beautiful hydrangeas I have inherited with my new home. Your very clear and informative video has made me understand it fully whereas no one else could. So glad I found you and thank you (from the hydrangeas!!!) Can't wait to get pruning without the worry!

Best tutorial on pruning this type of hydrangea I have ever seen! Thanks.

I love listening to your videos! Informative and I feel like I'm getting a lesson from a kind, experienced neighbor with that beautiful garden.

I have watched countless videos, and all have said not to prune (Mophead), which never made sense. Cannot thank u enough for this fantastic video, but thank u, thank u!!

Thank you this is the most detailed video on trimming Hydrangeas that I have found I really appreciate it..😊

..the very best illustration of how to prune this type of hydrangea. thanks so much.

Superb video and lovely voice! Very helpful, thank you!

This was a great video. I have 4 mop heads that grown close to 5 feet tall and wide. They’re 23 years old. This Spring we had snow in May so my buds were frozen. I was able to give the plants Jacks 202020 plant food to stimulate growth. Apparently it’s worked I can’t tell if I’ll have any flowers but I saved the plant. Thank you for showing me how to prune since I’ve never done it. They’re my showy front of the House specimens so need to shorten their heights. I’m glad you showed how to cut DDD. Thanks

THANK YOU! This is what I NEEDED. Calmness, knowledge and gentle instruction is SO Appreciated. This is the best instructional video I have seen about Hydrangea pruning on all of KZfaq. You have greatly helped so many gardeners across the World. Bravo! 👍🏼

Maggie, we all just hacked away at our hydrangeas until we learned better. :) Some people still just hack them down every year and create the big trunk. Now, you know what to do. Time to buy some new hydrangeas! :) -mary

This was the best video. I loved the re-cap! Thank you.

By far the most informative video I've seen on pruning this type of hydrangea. The first spring after planting my hydrangeas I pruned everything and of course nothing bloomed. I was heart broken and have been terrified of pruning since then. This year they finally bloomed and I was wondering what I should do with the dead blooms. Thanks to your video I will give pruning another try next spring. Wish me luck! ;)

Thank you for wonderful detailed instruction. My 20+ year old are getting treatments next.

Thank you for a very helpful tutorial - fantastic. I’m a beginner with only a small shared garden plot in London. So small we only have 5 rather sad hydrangeas that look like they haven’t been touched in years. They are in a sunny spot so tomorrow they shall be revived! ( or I might leave it a few weeks to let things warm up) Looking forward to learning more - thanks for taking the trouble.

Oh my !!! I don’t know how I found you but this was AMAZING. THANK YOU for so much detail and incredible information. 😘❤️

Wow. This is the Master Class on pruning mopheads. I watch it every year. It's my favourite job in the garden and I find it hard to wait! I keep trying to stop my branches from flopping. It's difficult to sacrifice a year! Thank you ....

I hope you saved all those wonderful cutting to make more beautiful plants!

I wish i would've found this video last spring because husband and i are gardening neophytes and our hydrangea had only half a dozen flowers on a huge plant, way too big. However now it is November and we have this ugly mess, knowing that we're supposed to prune in the spring, and this plant holds a prominent spot right by our front door. I'm thinking it's time for a new hydrangea next spring. Thank you for this tutorial because we won't make this mistake again. We are very grateful.

Thank you SO much for this!! First video I see that actually gives useful info with clear explanations. I'm writing you this from Spain. It is the first year that I've been taking care of a very old (I don't know exactly how much, but probably several decades) but extremelly healthy and HUGE old-wood hydrangea in our garden (it was my grandma's and she used to take care of it until she passed away). I know that it is the old-wood type because somebody pruned it two years ago without knowing at all what they were doing and they stopped the blooming completely, we did not have any flowers at all last year's summer (actually, we did have 1 single flower, it was very sad), and nobody knew why :) . So that is how I discovered that this peculiar old-wood kind existed. I started taking care of it and fertilizing it with acid-plant fertilizers, etc. The blooms this summer have been out-of-this world, huge and completely full. It was like a huge ballon just made of flowers (it is several meters high and wide), I don't see any other plant similar to it. The funny thing is that the accidental extreme pruning 2 years ago probably also invigorated the plant. The thing is that now I am trembling, the blooms are fading and withering, and I do not like that look as you do, so I am starting to cut them and do the pruning as they advise (the other person who did it probably pruned it in the fall or winter, that is why this happened). I am however very scared of killing any of next year's flowers. I am very new to gardening and so far I'm becoming a little expert in our rose bushes this year, but I see the hydrangeas are a different world. A few doubts: 1- I must say, my hydrangea was left to grow during too many years and therefore it has very long trunks, I was surprised to hear in your video that it is better not to have these, because I like the height and size of the plant as it is now (I wish I can control that it does not keep growing because it'll be gigantic and there's no room), and I thought it was something normal. From this core of just strong but slender and long trunks the rest of the plant grows, the leaves and flowers. So I panic how to cut them... And if I don't cut or not enough, will it keep growing even huger, like a tree for next year, or will it just stay more or less this size? Some seen so healthy and with new buds and growth just below the dead flower, that it seems sad to cut them... 2- By the way, so far I have cut a few flowers and branches already and, thinking it had to be done as in the rose plants, I did the diagonal cut instead of the straight one that you say. Is that very bad? Also, in the rose plants the cut had to be done much nearer the buds, so if I had cut some too near here, have I killed them too? Ahhhh! 3- Would you be so kind to explain how/where to cut a fresh flower as well? (not pruning, just getting a flower for decoration) I have cut a few for vases this summer, but I never was sure where I was supposed to do the cut. Some videos said where 2 branches join, but most of my branches are just a veeeery long stem... When are we supposed to cut when 2 branches join? 4- When should I stop the fertilizing, should I continue until September at least? To my surprise I see that new flowers seem to be blooming even now after most of the flowers are withering. I didn't know they had a 2nd bloom... 5- At the very beginning I may have cut too much of some of the branches, if I have only left what seems like the trunk but had no leaves or buds left so far, have I killed that branch? I thought that the joints in the trunk were like future buds... In short, I had no idea what I was doing the first days I was cutting a flower... I wish I'd found your video before! :_( I really need to get to know this plant and what I am doing. All is too confusing now. Rose plants seem much easier to understand at least! :) I am sorry that I have too many questions, I would be so thankful if you could help me with at least some of my doubts, even in installments. Thank you so much again and greetings from Spain! X

You have the best explanation on pruning mophead hydrangeas. Thank you

This video is very well done! Thank you so much for teaching me.

Just what I needed have just bought 2 hydrangeas👌🏻

Wow. Thank you so much for the in depth video. I should be fine from now on!!! I will subscribe!

Love your video. It is very informative. I hope to see new videos from you in the future! Thank you!

@the gardening tutor Best video, best explanation, with the best examples using the best type of species to demonstrate this tricky but not so tricky task which is pruning 🏆. Thank you for your wisdom and spreading it. Happy pruning everyone! 🌱

Thankyou learnt a lot .... have 3 bushes ... but brought another six as want a whole row of blooms , I feel a pro now 🤣 xx

I'm learning so much from you Mary, thanks!

This is such a great, informative video. Just Love it💚

Emme K. For some reason I can't reply to your nice comment. Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. It made my day! -mary

This spring will be my main mop head hydrangea’s 3rd year. I never had hydrangeas before, and really didn’t know how to manage them, so I left this one alone until now. It’s starting to bud, and I think I trimmed it properly, but boy did I learn so much with this video!! It’s in total shade, and I think I’m going to move it so it gets morning sun. I’m in north Texas, and our summer afternoons are brutal, but I’ve read that they need some sunshine. I also have oak leaf and limelight that are doing great, but again, I really don’t know what I’m doing, so have left them alone. A landscaper put all of these in at once, and I’ve been a bit overwhelmed, but trying to learn all I can about them. I’m confused about feeding them, there’s so much contradictory info out there! Many thanks for this wonderful tutorial. I learned more in a few minutes here than the past 2 years of searching!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

This video was so helpful! Thank you.

You are a fantastic tutor! Thank you so much 😊

I’ve watched this at least three times since the Fall, and just did my first round - in mid-April - on a large shrub. Your instruction helped tremendously. One thing you didn’t tell: How to get down to the bottoms of the stalks and prune them without poking oneself in the eye, armpit, etc! 😉 I will have to go back to finish. I didn’t do the 1 of every 5 yet and still have clean-up.

Now I finally know what I'm doing. I have 3 pots of mopheads white blue and pink. They have huge heads I transplant to new pots fed liquid & bonemeal. Growing like crazy and I keep moss around the base to keep them moist and happy. I check daily the soil. But when I prune I know what to do now. I had one last year and transplant in huge container. It didn't like it I had it in full sun it drooped I cut it too early and died. I said never again. It had the mopheads that were 24 inch wide. But now thanks to your video my new ones are thriving. No I never fed the one that died so it was starving. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain!! I'm so happy😊

Thanks so much. I love hydrangeas and have lots of them and never knew how to prune them, I thought I wasn't supposed to. No wonder they don't do well lol

I have wondered what type I have for years. I have one that my Dad planted for his grandmother back in 1940. I saved the rootball and it has grown to a very large plant and has produced so many off springs. So we have pink and blues, depending on what we feed them. Thanks for all the great tips!

As a newbie gardener I'm watching lots of videos, probably 100 this year so far. This is the best instructional video I have seen by a mile. The instruction is detailed, clear, AND concise. As a coach /educator myself I particularly appreciated and benefited from the final recap. Masterful! Thank you Mary 💜 👏 💐

Thank you for taking the time to do this video. Very helpful.

Excellent video. very understandable and followable. Loved the pointer.

Excellent advice and very helpful tips like the DDDC tip very well explained and easy to follow advice thankyou so much 😀

Thankyou lovely man, please take care, regards from Melbourne

Thank you so much for sharing this. Most helpful and very valuable information.

Wow! Lot of tips, thank you, excellent teacher. From Japan, I bought a blue-purple ajisai ( hydrangea ) in a pot with three huge rounded ajisai. I didn’t know anything about the flower and thanks to you I have learnt a lot.

Great video, excellent info. Really enjoyed .

Thank you, I am watching from Christchurch New Zealand

best tutorial I have seen for this.

Excellent video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼very informative.

I just moved in to a house for the first time in decades. It is on a ranch and the garden areas were so overgrown and unkempt. There are also two beautiful hydrangea plants. It’s July amd I’m not sure should I prune them now? Or wait till spring. I learned a lot in this video. Thank you.

Even though this video is long, it is very detailed and I love it! I have been searching for a very close up, detailed lesson on how to trim hydrangeas. So many videos are filmed so far away and you can’t really see what they are doing. I love the close-up of the camera to see exactly what you were doing down in the plant. I can’t wait to properly trim my hydrangea bushes and get more flowering this year!

Nice video, I am planning on trying to propagate hydrangea cuttings. Great Work.

Very thorough. Thank you.

Superb video! By far the best on the subject

Good videos. Many mop heads bloom on new wood too. 🌹

Thank you for the wonderful information! I would love to see a class on fertilizing , when and how far around the base. How often!

Very easy to understand and informative

Thank you, excellent detailed instruction, just as I like it 👍

Great video! Very helpful.

I wish I watched your video much earlier ! I have many hydrangeas and have watched many videos how to prune them. Your video is definitely the best ! None of the videos I watched mentioned about not letting the trunk form at the base of the hydrangea. When I looked at two of my oldest ones (almost 20 years old), they have huge trunks 😂 What can I do to fix the problem ? I noticed all the new growth were coming from the trunks, not from the soil any more 😂 Thank you !

You have the best explaining. I just wish your camera person didn't cast a shadow on what you were showing. Thanks for sharing. I hope to see more of your videos.

Such a great video to teach us about hydrangea. I just bought my first hydrangea & have it potted in a half barrel so I can take it to the family farm with me when we move and plant it in the ground. I look forward to moving there with my lovely plants! Can you take the cuttings and start them? For all of you who spent time viewing the video but didn't take a moment to like it... Why not? It does't take any effort. =/ 🌱Be Blessed ღ 🌼

This was so good! Best video

Thank you I cut my Hydrangea a couple of years ago NOT KNOWING what I was doing and I have not had any flower since then. Huh! So, with your help, I'm hoping to DD&C in the spring of 2020 and fingues cross that in the summer of 2020 I will have big beautiful blue flowers again. Wish me luck

So helpful! Thank you

excellent video.

thank you what an excellent video. i learned so so so much. peace.

Excellent information

Thank you for this video. I have pruned by hydrangeas but not like your video. I shall try your way, I get blooms but they are small or too big for the stems. I checked the trunk on my one hydrangea and YES, it is huge, yet it did bloom this year but the blooms were small. Again I thank you really enjoyed your video.

Best video I have seen on pruning to date. Thank you. My question is: I planted my bush this past spring. Should I prune. It has been in the ground for apx 7 mo. There were flowers on it when I bought it.