Another update on our Endless Summer Hydrangea here at the nursery…. They are just starting to turn their lovely blue color. They stand about two feet tall and are covered with the blossom balls now turning blue! We water them once a month with a hose end feeder filled with Miracid water-soluble fertilizer. This is in addition to them being planted in a soil that was amended with a 50% peat mixture.
The vine to the left on the wall is our Porcelain Vine, a pot of double impatiens stands behind our Endless Summer and Sweet Potato Vine with pink snapdragons edge the wall.
We are in the midst of a wonderful summer of color in our gardens and enjoying all the plants that will be “sleeping” during the long Minnesota winter. The secret of having your Endless Summer perform like these are doing is to heavily mulch them in right before Thanksgiving. As I have written before, these plants were essentially buried with about 1 1/2 feet of mulch. In the early spring, you pull the mulch away, but it will protect these wonderful plants in the winter. Plan ahead now and buy a couple of bags of landscape mulch and place it in your garage. Take it out and cover these plants in November and in April – your Endless Summer will take off and please you next summer again!
