3 New Hydrangeas for 2021: Update & Planting! 😍💚 // Garden Answer

hey guys how's it going today i want to show you three varieties of panicle hydrangeas all of which are new this year in 2021 so the first variety is called quickfire fab it's what you see right back here this is the southwest corner of our new property and we planted this area up to be low maintenance but beautiful like this variety wants to grow six to eight feet tall five to six feet wide so i'm hoping in the end it's just this huge beautiful bank of hydrangeas we have a red point maple here in the center but uh this is the only variety last year that we showed you guys we did a video about this one when we received these it was the middle of summer during a heat wave and you guys know i mean 2020 was a crazy year shipping was crazy all of our shrubs sat in a shipping container in a at a fedex facility in i think utah for almost two weeks with no water like can you imagine no light no water so the other two varieties that i'm going to show you in a second they looked almost dead when we received them these were okay and that's why we decided to show you guys these early so i'm looking forward to showing you the limelight prime and firelight tidbit of the next two but i'm excited about these one because they are the earliest blooming panicle hydrangea that i'm aware of like they've been in bloom some of them more than others and it's kind of like typical first growing season full growing season for these once they are established a little bit more i expect their blooms to be a little bit more consistent but they all look good which is so nice so you can tell that these have already been in blue for a while because they're already starting to color up so they start off this beautiful creamy white actually kind of like a chartreuse they go to creamy white and then they start to color up pink you can see just a slight blush there and that will deepen so the pink will increase it'll get to a nice deep pink and then almost like a pink red they're really beautiful so with this early blooming variety you get like three plus months worth of blooms i would say for us here we have a very long growing season that it might even be closer to four months of beautiful color and the thing i like about hydrangeas you guys know i love hydrangeas but they require no maintenance when they once i start blooming they just look gorgeous all through the whole entire season there's no deadheading there's no spent blooms there's no petals falling all over on top of your mulch they're just a wonderful plant and these are not protected by a dang thing i mean there's nothing protecting them from wind you guys know what kind of wind we get around here we do have them set up on a drip system right here full sun they're doing great they can also handle our high ph in fact they're very versatile for different types of ph and there's two other varieties of quickfire so the quickfire fab grows five to six feet wide six to eight feet tall the traditional or standard quickfire grows about the same height but they get wider so this one's a little bit easier to tuck into a flowerbed situation and then there's the little quickfire which is the smallest of the three which is a little bit um well it's the easiest you don't have to have to have as much space to keep it happy but the thing uh the other thing about panicles that i really like is that they bloom on new wood so you can go in and shape them up trim them back in the late winter early spring and they come back fresh every single year from that so anyway super happy with these now yesterday aaron and i went and planted the limelight primes over on the other corner of this property so we'll head over there next so these are the limelight primes right here you can see we planted kind of an arc of them there are six here and we have right on the other side of where you see the wood chips here we are going to be putting in a grass walkway so we thought it would be really pretty kind of along this curve to have this bank of beautiful hydrangeas so the limelight prime versus the standard limelight which is one of the most popular panicle hydrangeas out there and one of the toughest i think they've done so well for us here in full sun situations that's why i felt comfortable planting these out in the middle of nothing i mean they're just gonna get the brutal sun all day long but they can actually handle it here which is amazing but they actually bloom earlier than the traditional limelights they stay smaller so four to six feet tall instead of like the six to eight feet tall and a little bit more narrow and they color up more vividly so they start out like this is just so pretty i like them this color here this beautiful chartreuse kind of like a little bit of creamy white splashes here and there and then the panicles start turning that really vivid deep pink so by fall we should have an absolutely gorgeous color show out here i'm so looking forward to it they also have incredibly strong stems and while i find that these stems on our traditional limelights are very strong i think just having the more dwarf or compact nature nature in this plant creates even more of a sturdy kind of habit also all of the panicle hydrangeas i'm showing you today are all zone three through eight i don't think i mentioned that before okay so the last variety i want to show you we're actually going to be planting today they're called firelight tidbit we're gonna have to go gather those up and our planting supplies then we'll head out where i'm gonna be putting them all right guys so this is the very last area where we're planting the firelight tidbits now you're gonna have to use your imagination if you would for me because i know it's hard with the way it looks right now but this is another area right where i'm standing where we will have a 15 foot in fact you can i hope you can see the flags there's a flag here and a flag on this side that indicate where the grass pathway will be so and i think you might be able to see the tire tracks that lead to our cut flower garden so this pathway will be in beautiful lush dark green and i wanted to flank this opening with something gorgeous but something that wasn't going to be super tall because especially on this side when we're driving by i don't want to have anything so tall that i can't see the cut flower garden i think being able to look back there and see what's going on is kind of fun and i do plan on putting in some kind of native meadow areas on both sides of the pathway actually but both areas we intend on having fairly heavily planted with shrubs and and low maintenance perennials things like that so that's what we're going for this is the firelight tidbit look at this plant i cannot believe what these looked like last year after they arrived to us all of their leaves were crunchy and brown they were pretty much just stems and we thought well i mean they're pretty tough plant we just watered them carried them over this is the container they arrived to us in right here and then this is what they've done this year so it kind of goes to show you what happens if you just give things a little bit of time and just give them proper water so i'm really thrilled with how these have done and i'm going to be planting three on each side of the walkway interplanted or intermingled with some denim and lace russian sage isn't that a glorious combination i think they'll look beautiful together because they are compatible in size the hydrangeas have the potential of being a little bit taller it will depend i think every year may be a little bit different denim and lace does really well for us grows roughly 28 to 32 inches tall this one two to three feet tall so it should just be a wonderful blend of color right here i'm not looking for a huge amount of height difference because that will kind of happen beyond this little area right here and the nice thing about this area you might be thinking like oh my goodness these two plants are very incompatible water wise well they typically are but we have to run drip to everything here because we hardly get rain ever so we will run more emitters to our hydrangeas far less to our russian stage in fact i think i'll be running just a half gallon per hour emitter to these for the rest of the season and then i'm going to probably plug those and they will just only need the water excess water that they can gather from the hydrangea hydrangeas being watered so i think we'll be able to control that in a way that both of these plants will be very happy now the fire light tidbit there is the traditional fire lights which we have planted alongside our barn like parallel one side of our barn we've got them um in our brick raised bed circle area they want to grow like six to eight feet tall six feet wide these two to three feet tall and wide so incredibly versatile and i think one of the smallest pinnacle hydrangeas that i'm aware of so anyway i think we're going to aaron is probably going to come and use the auger to ugh some holes for me because the ground is fairly hard out here we'll get these planted we'll get them mulched and then we'll show you what it looks like [Music] [Music] [Music] okay guys so the camera overheated and turned off so we were unable to capture this whole process that's why i have not mulched it yet because i wanted to show you how we ran the irrigation so that that wasn't hidden underneath mulch but you can see so based on where the flags are this is roughly where the edge of the grass is going to be right here and this is just our little entry to the flower bed and i think it's so pretty i mean it's kind of in an island of nothing right now but not for long not for long this is the starting and it kind of motivates me to keep working back you know start in the front and work back which is kind of like the opposite of what i normally do but these things look great um so we dug all the holes we used bio-tone starter fertilizer land and sea i'm going to be mulching with land and sea compost out here as well to help combat our high ph hopefully help condition the soil a little bit and this soil is incredibly hard like really hard that's why aaron was using auger to dig the holes usually i do that but it is so hard out here he was even having a hard time with it but once we start irrigating it does soften up a bit we are trying to irrigate very efficiently out here so what i did we use a three-quarter inch supply line for our water we already already had it running out to that birch tree so if we cruise over here i can show you how i tapped into that line i just used a three-quarter inch t coupler cut the line right here and put the t coupler in between the two runs of tubing there and then this is the new tube that i took off with i made sure to put metal clamps there so that the water pressure doesn't make it pop off and then we just ran this tube this direction which is nice because we will be needing it in this area the only areas i think i will be actually using the half inch brown soaker it's not soaker tubing but brown drip tubing half inch holes every 18 inches are the meadow areas that i'm going to plant but other than that i think we're going to be really target watering so that we don't waste water so what we did is we came in like on our russian stage here they don't need very much water i ran a half gallon per hour emitter to each one of the russian sage once they're established we'll probably cap those because they won't need any additional water they're super low maintenance so we tapped in with a quarter inch coupler here into the three quarter inch line ran a quarter inch just solid black poly and then on the end here there's our our half gallon per hour emitter we just have that right at the root ball and then for the hydrangeas uh same kind of thing here a quarter inch coupler black poly and then when you get to the bottom of the hydrangea i used the quarter inch brown drip tubing holes every six inches that emit half gallon per hour of water and there are six of them so that means three gallons per hour to each hydrangea i think that that will work out fine so you can just see how we kind of spidered off to each plant and then we ended the three quarter inch drip tube right there so let's take a look at the other side now these are not the same shape so the configuration of plants is just slightly different those kind of go back a little bit further these are a little bit more wide and don't take up as much distance but i think having the repeat plants in here is really pretty also this is the red bud trees that i dug up from the flower bed right in front of me that i had a heck of a time digging this tree up i had to cut the taproot and i thought for sure we would lose the tree but here it is looking so awesome i mean it bloomed in everything right here so i mean everything's going well so far you can see that the irrigation is the same here i will be getting this area mulched because that will help with moisture suppression or moisture control and then also weed suppression so that will be nice and it will cover all the watering infrastructure it's always a good idea though if you can run your irrigation system a time or two just see what the water coverage looks like because if for some reason like let's say the water from the hydrangeas really kind of subs out this one i might be able to cap the drip on this one right away if it's kind of catching the water from the hydrangeas so that'll be something that we can monitor and that's always a hard question we get asked all the time like how long should i run my drip system what kind of emitter should i use it's so subject to what your soil is like where they're at like these are just going to get nailed by wind and sun until we have more things going on out here so we'll be very mindful of the irrigation so we're going to wait to mulch a few days just to let the irrigation system run and then after that point we'll be mulching so anyway i was just so excited to show you guys these panicle hydrangeas because they're the the best type of hydrangea for our area anyway the arborescens do pretty good for us too which are the smooth hydrangeas like the annabelle type but panicles definitely can handle the most amount of sun without wilting and they just perform for us they bloom consistently they come back every year i don't have any issues with them other than i think we've maybe had like hit and miss chlorosis iron deficiency issues with maybe a few but that's kind of typical of our area but largely they do really well so anyway we will be giving you updates on all of these hydrangeas as we go along thank you guys so much for watching this video and we will see you in the next one bye

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Length: 14min 30sec (870 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021