I have a lot of panicle hydrangeas and I find they all flop equally. But over the years I have bought enough steaks to stake practically every branch and that’s essentially what I do after a heavy rain storm. I have a couple recent videos on my channel and you can see that the steaks are pretty well hidden.

Potato berries serve you no purpose, so remove the flowers when you see them - BUT the flowers do give you a sign that it’s almost harvest time 🤤 Flowers are a good sign that new potatoes are starting to form and they’ll soon be able to harvest. Not all varieties produce flowers, so don’t be worried if your potatoes don’t produce flowers - but if you see them, now you know what they mean and what to do with them 👌 #gardening #growingpotatoes #containergarden #growbaggardening #potatoharvest #potatotips #veggiegarden #urbangarden #smallspacegardening #zone8a #atlanta

Cute glasses Michelle!

I’d love to grow butterfly Pea Flowers 🌺

Not a hack

So what do you “want to look for”?

I have 2 inspire hydrangeas ( in pots) and even though they are good to zone 3 ( I'm zone 6) I still bring them inside ,because we get late frosts..and I don't want to lose the blooms. My other panicle hydrangeas don't get the love !! I know they will still bloom.

There are so many amazing hydrangea paniculata varieties, it’s impossible to grow them all - but there’s definitely one for every full sun spot you have in your garden. I’ve grown a number of them, and they’re all unique and fabulous in their own way, so if you wanted to collect them all, you totally have a an excuse to 😜. Here are a few of my favorites and what I love about them: @pwcolorchoice limelight: it’s an older variety, but it’s popular for a reason. HUGE blooms, vigorous grower. Yes, it can flop if not pruned correctly, but by far the blooms on this are the largest and most impressive. @pwcolorchoice limelight prime: in my experience this is a slower grower, smaller bloom size - but it doesn’t flop at all and it’s beautiful. It blooms about a month earlier than limelight @pwcolorchoice pinky winky: one of the earliest paniculata bloomers in my garden - more open bloom structure, turns the pinkest in my garden and a pollinator magnet. @firsteditionsshrubstrees vanilla strawberry hydrangea: this is my first year with this shrub and it’s beautiful. Well branched, strong stems. I’ll keep you posted on how it grows 👌 @living.creations pinky promise hydrangea - absolutely beautiful and one of the only paniculata hydrangeas that turn a dark beautiful pink for me. The shrub itself is compact, but the blooms are HUGE - and this one does flop in a rainstorm, but it’s so stunning 🤩 @pwcolorchoice firelight tid bit: this compact hydrangea has really blown me away - it grows quickly but has actually stayed the size written on the tag 🤣 - it’s well branched, blooms don’t flop, blooms the earliest of the paniculata hydrangeas I have grown. The blooms age really well (they don’t turn pink…. But don’t brown… if that makes sense) so they last for months. #hydrangeas #hydrangeaflower #hydrangeaseason #hydrangeatips #hydrangeacare #provenwinners #firsteditionshrubs #livingcreations

I must be slow. I had to watch it like three times

I have several little limes, a limelight prime and little lime punches in my yard. The little lime that was planted last year has HUGE blooms this year and is about 4 feet high and 3 feet wide. The blooms flopped following rainstorms and I had to stake the plant to support it and it's doing alot better. We planted the limelight prime this spring. I was told this plant would grow more upward than outward. I did see a video by Creekside Nursery where they showed an established limelight prime and it does appear to grow in this manner (it looked alot different that yours does -- maybe it gets more sun or something). It has plenty of space around it though so it's not competing with other plants. The blooms are not as large as the limelight or little limes but it's still a beautiful shrub. I think the little lime punches are my favorite. They grow in a more compact form and I think that really helps prevent them from flopping as much. I have recently seen several different videos that were saying if you prune a certain way, the panicles will not flop or won't flop as much. However, until the plant is established (year 3 or so) the branches may not be strong enough to prevent it from happening. As far as the deer, we have a ton of deer where we live. Last year I didn't put out repellent early enough and they did start nibbling on one of my hydrangeas. This year I was very consistent with applying Liquid Fence and putting out Irish Spring shavings the second I started seeing green on the shrubs. I didn't have any issue with deer.

Maybe I’m a tomato? I wither when it is above 90 degrees F…

I wonder what the difference between Limelight Prime and Little Lime is. I have two Little Limes and the blooms look similar to the Prime. My Little Limes are on year 3 and they are about 4 feet tall. Last year my husband set a sprinkler on them during a long dry spell and all the water weighed the branches down as well. We haven't had rain for many weeks but I have just used a hose at the base to water now and then.

My pollinator has been slacking. Lots of tickling in store. Hoping for ripe fruit.

I’m getting a lot of questions about tomatoes recently so I thought I’d put together top reasons why your tomato plants might not be making tomatoes. Share this with your favorite backyard tomato farmer who might be struggling to get that instaworthy tomato haul 👩‍🌾. Pollination: tomatoes are cool in that they are self pollinating and don’t technically NEED pollinators to become pollinated - wind can be enough to pollinate the tomatoes. If you’re seeing lots of flowers but very few fruit - you can try self pollinating by tapping/tickling the tomato flowers to help with pollination, Heat: tomatoes grow best when it’s hot - but not too hot. When temperatures creep up past the 90s tomato plants go into “dormancy” to minimize stress. You can’t really blame them, if I was a tomato plant, I’d do the same 😂. Keep your tomatoes pruned, watered, and fed - when temperatures come back down, they’ll keep growing and producing for you. Sunlight: most veggies want full full sun to grow and produce the maximum amount of fruit. No light? No fruit. You can try trimming away branches to increase light - but just know, if your garden is excessively shaded - expect a smaller harvest. Hope this helps! 🍅 happy gardening 👩‍🌾 #tomatoseason #growingtomatoes #tomatotroubles #tomatotroubleshooting #tomatotroublesolved #veggiegarden #backyardgarden #urbangarden #containergarden #atlanta #zone8a

Flop is just a fact of hydrangea life as far as I’m concerned. I don’t cut down all my azaleas after a thunderstorm knocks blooms off.

I'd keep the limelight hedge. They are spectacular. It would be an immense job to take out. I use to have a limelight hedge and every spring, I'd trim it back about 2/3 down. The blooms were huge! I never had an issue with flopping. In my new house, I planted 2 limelight primes as I don't have the space for a limelight. This will be there 2nd year. Buds but no blooms yet.

Bottom line - if it doesn’t make you happy remove it. Life is too short and garden real estate too scant to be looking at a plant that disappoints just because you spent money on it.

You didn’t plant them at the same time or even the same year. Year 3 is the magic number for most scrubs.

1. The Limelight Prime is not as old or well established. 2. You planted the prime very close to an established shrub (the lime light). The roots of the lime light will out-compete the new shrub. You can see that the prime has light green leaves from getting less nutrients and water. 3. To make a comparison of any value to anyone, you need two plants planted around the same time.

You’d have to plant at the same time to get a good comparison. The blooms get bigger and mature each year the plant is in the ground. So it’s just too hard to compare such a new plant.

I think it was a great comparison of the two limelight. I'd rather have the Limelight even if it does flop from the weight of the gorgeous hydrangea flowers. It's absolutely stunning. I have 2 primes and the blooms are nah! Nothing that makes me go wowwwww! I have a few hydrangeas little fresco ( too small to flower yet, and 2 gorgeous inspire hydrangeas ( in pots that I bring into my sunroom over winter as I don't want to lose them to the cold ). Hydrangeas are just a total wow statement in any garden.

Great update! I’ve been trying to decide which to grow, so very helpful! I absolutely love your videos! Hope more are coming soon!

Great compare video! Thank you!

If I suspect that I was sold some primes mixed in with my standards for a limelight hedge should I call up the seller three years later 😅😂😢

Love this update! I planted both last year. I find the Limelight grows much faster than the Limelight Prime. The Limelight almost tripled in size and the Prime only had slight growth.

Interesting. My Limelight Prime has bigger blooms than yours Michelle. I would say their blooms more tubular(my term)😂 but still of a good size, in my garden at least.

Thank you for sharing this tip with us! I will be trying this on some of my hydrangeas.

Do the bees sting

Thanks for the updates and the insight into pruning to reduce the flop! Mine are 3 years in ground and are fixin to flop with this week's rain 😅

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Of course we would help! Wish it was in Nova scotia :) ❤

Much needed Zen moment on a Friday night! Thank you Michelle!

Beautiful

I wonder if you placed little platforms in the fountain might birds come use it as a bird bath or at the very least to drink out of.

I can’t tell you how many times my husband told me that installing the @wmbgbrand @campania.international Chiswell fountain under the crepe Myrtle tree would be a bad idea. Did I listen?? Absolutely not. Is it annoying to clean the fountain twice as often? .. sure Is it adorable seeing floating blooms in the fountain? YES 🙌 So… what do you think? Did I mess up? #hydrangea #gardening #landscapeinspiration #gardenfountain #gardenpaths #crepemyrtleblooms #hydrangeaseason #moongarden #zone8a #atlanta

That zucchini is Mexican squash

Small space? That’s a huge yard!

Yep

According to science. ? Dudette, Grow tomatoes ACCORDING TO FARMERS and gardeners. Experience over lab coats all day

Lol😂😂 she said "according to science" like obviously. According to science you should breathe so you don't die!!

Nope😂😂😂😂 they do not yeast as good as

"Science" has been pretty hit or miss this presidential administration.

Put them in a brown paper bag to ripen faster

Correct. A tomato is physiologically ripe at the breaker stage, which is when its basically half red from the bottom up.

Why my hydrangea are growing too slow?

It’s tough out there for tomato plants (at least it is here in my Atlanta garden). The army worms and other caterpillar “friends” have found my tomatoes as well as lots of “fantastic” fungal diseases. How am I still harvesting tomatoes? Well… I’ll tell you. I harvest tomatoes when they first start “blushing” - once they begin changing from green to light orange and tomatoes are about 30% of full color, that’s known as the breaker stage - and that’s when science says that’s when you can pick tomatoes and they have the full tomato taste (once ripened indoors). Picking tomatoes at the breaker stage helps preventing them from splitting, diseased,or being eaten by caterpillar “friends”, birds, and other client wildlife. #growingtomatoes #tomatoharvest #veggiegarden #urbangarden #kitchengarden #backyardgarden #atlanta #southerngarden #zone8a #georgiagarden

What if my garden is refusing to give me tomatoes?

my tomatoes are still green babies

Tomato Chilli jam. Really guys. Try make it. It's good!

Looks delicious! ❤️ I just did this yesterday, then this video popped up! I also added red, yellow, and orange sweet peppers to mine. I love the combo of tomatoes and peppers in a sauce!