{"id":863,"date":"2018-05-13T16:29:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T15:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/journal\/?p=863"},"modified":"2019-05-15T18:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:07:52","slug":"pruning-hydrangea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/pruning-hydrangea\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning hydrangea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-863 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_01.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_01-300x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Hydrangea in F4 pruned\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_01-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_01-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_01-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_01-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_01.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-822'>\n\t\t\t\tHydrangea in F4 pruned\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_02.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_02-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"White hydrangea in F3 pruned\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_02-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_02-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hydrangea_pruning_20180513_02-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-823'>\n\t\t\t\tWhite hydrangea in F3 pruned\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I cut back the lace cap plant next to the bay tree to buds on stems that flowered last year. It&#8217;s clear that flowers are forming on the stems that these buds are growing into this year. Is this old or new wood? Either way it looks very promising, but I could have cut a bit lower to make a more compact shape.<\/p>\n<p>The white mophead is also showing flowers coming on similar stems. This has had fewer, bigger flowers the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cut back the lace cap plant next to the bay tree to buds on stems that flowered last year. It&#8217;s clear that flowers are forming on the stems that these buds are growing into this year. Is this old or new wood? Either way it looks very promising, but I could have cut a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants","category-pruning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}