You’ll be surprised at how quickly they grow and how big they can get!
I REALLY need some Hydrangea around here! They’re my favorite shrub and I had six varieties at my other farm. Time to hit some end-of-season nursery sales! :)
There are many Rose of Sharon bushes on our road and I’m sure they are quite old .... a couple of them are huge! We won’t let ours get that big ... 6-10’ wide will be big enough :-)
I love hydrangeas. My granny in NC had them on both sides of the door where you came into the house from the ‘back’ which was the door they used all the time. These were blue hydrangeas and very large. That side of the house had perfect conditions - I think it got morning sun. The blooms were some of the biggest I’ve ever seen & very blue. I’ve always wanted hydrangeas like that, but never had the right spot and evidently, deer will munch on them, so we never really tried planting any. Mom had two that were given to her in pots as gifts & she did put them in the ground. She had them in a bad spot - they didn’t grow very much or bloom. I transplanted them the year before we moved and they pretty much took off & grew quite a bit & were blooming. Without care, I doubt they did much this past year.
A question for the “Nursery Manager”!
The RoS are in gallon buckets & the lilac is in a 3 gallon bucket. I am guessing the RoS need daily watering & maybe every other day for the lilac? I don’t want to drown anything, but it’s hot here & I don’t want to lose any plants or stress them too much.
The RoS were not really wilted when they arrived, but slightly droopy. They were well-packed & each had a cone of plastic with a panel of something in it like row cover. Some of the plastic had tiny holes in it. I know they were hot, even with big holes in the boxes. They were mostly dry when I checked the soil. I didn’t move them off the front porch for about an hour and even without water, they had noticeably perked up - fresh, cooler air, I would guess.
We have a concrete pad near the shop so I moved them there & watered them late afternoon. Around noon today, it’s quite hot & I think the concrete makes it worse, so I moved them to one of my metal raised beds - they are sitting on top of pine straw mulch. They will be getting some shade around 3:00. I watered them again when I moved them. Hopefully, this spot will suit them (at least 6+ hours sun) until I can plant them. It’s too hot for me to be digging holes!