Planting Gatsby Gal Oakleaf hydrangea
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Date: 2022-07-16
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Don
I live in the Sacramento CA area where we get long hot summers. I have an olhy in a wine barrel. Two big factors to successfully growing these are 1) get them out of direct sunlight for any time of day. Leaves will scorch and fall way early if you dont 2) you have to water them every day, whether its in the container or in the soil. If your soil gets swampy, cut back to every 2 or 3 days. The symptoms for too little water or too much water are the same. In either case, the leaves will fall. These love water. If your soil is that horrendous clay soil like we have here, you will need to add the amendments that she showed. My fall color is from orange to fire engine red. Real beauties.
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I live in the Sacramento CA area where we get long hot summers. I have an olhy in a wine barrel. Two big factors to successfully growing these are 1) get them out of direct sunlight for any time of day. Leaves will scorch and fall way early if you dont 2) you have to water them every day, whether its in the container or in the soil. If your soil gets swampy, cut back to every 2 or 3 days. The symptoms for too little water or too much water are the same. In either case, the leaves will fall. These love water. If your soil is that horrendous clay soil like we have here, you will need to add the amendments that she showed. My fall color is from orange to fire engine red. Real beauties.
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no
I just got a landscape designer to make a master plan for our neglected yard with lots of trees but not much else in terms of landscaping. We bought our first 5 plants from the plan yesterday and began installing them. Your videos have given me the courage to undertake this task. I live in the Southeaster US Zone 8b. Yesterday, I planted a tea olive and today I will be installing 3 dwarf gardenias and an oak leaf hydrangea. I am so excited to see that you have a video on the exact plant I bought! This is the one I'm most nervous about caring for: ) Thanks for all of the help and inspiration.
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I just got a landscape designer to make a master plan for our neglected yard with lots of trees but not much else in terms of landscaping. We bought our first 5 plants from the plan yesterday and began installing them. Your videos have given me the courage to undertake this task. I live in the Southeaster US Zone 8b. Yesterday, I planted a tea olive and today I will be installing 3 dwarf gardenias and an oak leaf hydrangea. I am so excited to see that you have a video on the exact plant I bought! This is the one I'm most nervous about caring for: ) Thanks for all of the help and inspiration.
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Gigi
I planted 6 of the Gatsby series last summer, - 2 each of gal, star, and moon. However, i planted them as small, ordered online, plants and unfortunately, put them in the shade where i had a bed fenced off from the deer. They havent done well at all - i think because they need more sun. I dont have another fenced bed to move them to where they will get more sun. Very disappointing as i had been drooling over them for a year or so before i ordered them from home depot. I havent seen them in local nurseries yet.
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I planted 6 of the Gatsby series last summer, - 2 each of gal, star, and moon. However, i planted them as small, ordered online, plants and unfortunately, put them in the shade where i had a bed fenced off from the deer. They havent done well at all - i think because they need more sun. I dont have another fenced bed to move them to where they will get more sun. Very disappointing as i had been drooling over them for a year or so before i ordered them from home depot. I havent seen them in local nurseries yet.
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The
You are a great gardener. It is great to see someone give tips that work. My yard has rubble, rocks and clay. basically devil soil.
The secret to my nice garden is partially learning about plants. root structure etc. and adding organic matter and microorganisms. Especially for many natives. They need a microherd to do well.
I'm glad to see the tone fertilizers have included the microorganisms in their product. The only way I could get them previously, was to special order it.
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You are a great gardener. It is great to see someone give tips that work. My yard has rubble, rocks and clay. basically devil soil.
The secret to my nice garden is partially learning about plants. root structure etc. and adding organic matter and microorganisms. Especially for many natives. They need a microherd to do well.
I'm glad to see the tone fertilizers have included the microorganisms in their product. The only way I could get them previously, was to special order it.
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Angie
Goooodmorning! Hydrangeas! My true obsessions! I cant Waite to have our forever home to be able to plant all those wonderful trees and shrubs not only dose it look beautiful now but in winter such a beautiful view. For now I have hydrangeas of many types all over and Gatsby is one of many that we are in search for. It looks amazing Laura so so so beautiful! I can see ourself years from now looking back at this video for ideas in our permanent home.
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Goooodmorning! Hydrangeas! My true obsessions! I cant Waite to have our forever home to be able to plant all those wonderful trees and shrubs not only dose it look beautiful now but in winter such a beautiful view. For now I have hydrangeas of many types all over and Gatsby is one of many that we are in search for. It looks amazing Laura so so so beautiful! I can see ourself years from now looking back at this video for ideas in our permanent home.
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Shelley
I just bought a Gatsby this Spring and I am so excited to see the fall color. I could not find one anywhere so I asked my local garden center to order one for me. Right after I planted it rained for the most part of 2 weeks, so I had some fungus on the leaves. I snipped all the affected leaves off and it's doing fabulous! Thanks for your videos
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I just bought a Gatsby this Spring and I am so excited to see the fall color. I could not find one anywhere so I asked my local garden center to order one for me. Right after I planted it rained for the most part of 2 weeks, so I had some fungus on the leaves. I snipped all the affected leaves off and it's doing fabulous! Thanks for your videos
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Willa
My neighbor has a stand of these between us it starts at my drive and goes across almost to the side of her house. in bloom now so pretty.
We cut all the old flowers off last winter it felt like hundreds! They are about 8 feet tall and look so nice. good privacy fence for her back yard. In your care this plant will probably outdo hers lol
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My neighbor has a stand of these between us it starts at my drive and goes across almost to the side of her house. in bloom now so pretty.
We cut all the old flowers off last winter it felt like hundreds! They are about 8 feet tall and look so nice. good privacy fence for her back yard. In your care this plant will probably outdo hers lol
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Jude
Laura, great tip about selecting plants at the nursery. I, along with a lot of others, would probably have passed up some otherwise good plants. We are always getting useful information from you. You are as amazing at being an educator as you are at being an inspiration. We appreciate you and Aaron so much. Thank you for what you do!
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Laura, great tip about selecting plants at the nursery. I, along with a lot of others, would probably have passed up some otherwise good plants. We are always getting useful information from you. You are as amazing at being an educator as you are at being an inspiration. We appreciate you and Aaron so much. Thank you for what you do!
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Anita
I have two oakleafs and they have been doing really well in the amount of sun you described. But this year one of them seems to have paler leaves than the other. I added some Holly Tone but I haven't seen any improvement in the leaf color. Any suggestions? We have been getting a lot of rain. Not sure if that would be a cause.
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I have two oakleafs and they have been doing really well in the amount of sun you described. But this year one of them seems to have paler leaves than the other. I added some Holly Tone but I haven't seen any improvement in the leaf color. Any suggestions? We have been getting a lot of rain. Not sure if that would be a cause.
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