HI everybody this is Noelle from Petitti's and we're doing a little backyard
makeover behind us here but we wanted to plant this beautiful panicle hydrangea
and guess what it's July and a lot of customers ask us can you plant in July
absolutely you can plant any time you want to the thing about planting in the
summer is you just have to pay attention to the increased watering maintenance or
irrigation maintenance and you definitely want to fertilize and keep a
close eye on the plant but other than that you're totally fine we've got a
fairly sunny location so we did want to select the panicle hydrangea out of all
the hydrangea families the panicle hydrangea is going to be the most Sun
tolerant and typically the most heat tolerant and also very very cold hardy
so this is a great selection for this area it gets a little bit of shade in the
morning but gets a lot of Sun in the afternoon through the evening so we
decided to pick this dwarf panicle hydrangea you can tell it's a panicle
because you look at those cone-shaped flowers okay and the flowers normally on
these varieties will start as like a creamy white sometimes they will start
with a little bit of a green shade like a limelight hydrangea if you've ever
heard of those and then as they mature through the season they will start to
blush and pinken and different varieties will pinken or blush at a
different rate so it just kind of depends what pinky colors you like and
so forth but this is actually called bombshell it is a dwarf you're looking
at the height really on this plant it's going to get about let's say about three
by three and the landscape at maturity but beautiful beautiful creamy white
blossoms coming out right now lots of new growth underneath this plant will
continue to bloom and produce buds and it will really fill out and look
gorgeous for us we did of course incorporate bio tone at the root system
very very important trying to establish your new shrubs your
new trees even your new perennials and annuals you can use bio tone at the root
base so put it in the hole and then go ahead break up the root system make sure
it's not still rolling around in the pot you want to break up the roots and then
go ahead and plant the plant here we have it in a little bit of a raised area
which is good so the water drains away plus we capped the top of the root ball
just slightly above the soil so it is exposed again that's another measure
because in clay soils you want to make sure that that water is draining away
from the plant after we back filled with a mixture of planting mix and also the
existing soil which is fine you want to mix about half and a half we went ahead
and we also tamped it down and then we mulch around it so mulching is very very
important in the garden it does reduce weed competition it will also keep
moisture in the soil around your plants and it looks really really nice too so
typically we talk about no more than two inches of mulch around your plant
material you really don't need more than that and one of the secrets is if you
lift up the plants you don't want the mulch going all the way up to the trunk
or the crown of that plant you want to make sure the mulch is kind of backed
away from that plant a few inches so when you go to water or it rains or you
go to fertilize you can still put that right where the plant needs it versus
feeding the mulch or watering the mulch so do make sure that you kind of you
know push them all two way a little bit so you have a good space where that roof
all the top of the root ball is still a little bit exposed there other than that
we're gonna get the hose out we're gonna put it on a trickle we're gonna put it
right at the base of this hydrangea let it run for about a half an hour and see
how well it absorbs into the soil and we're gonna keep an eye on it from there
gonna do that about once a week if we don't get any rainfall we've been
getting a lot this year but we'll see how it goes with this summer so
that's panicle hydrangea for you and enjoy