Hydrangea: time to deadhead them.

 

Or is it??

It's late March as I write, and although we are having sunny days with a welcome increase in temperature, it's still perishingly cold overnight, with frost first thing.

So is it time to deadhead the Hydrangeas yet?

This is what they are commonly looking like, at this time of year:

 

The dead flowers from last year are starting to look tatty, some of them are snapping and dangling untidily, and the new leaves are sprouting.

So it's very tempting to prune off the dead material - but it's still very early in the year, so should we dead head them?

There are two answers to this question - yes, and no. Oh dear, not very helpful. I will try again.....

 

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