Hydrangeas are brimming with nostalgia, stirring memories of endless Southern summers. When winter arrives, these charming plants need a little TLC to ensure summer blooms return the following season.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Preparing hydrangeas for winter ensures they bloom beautifully next year by protecting them from cold damage. Use mulch and water ...

Hydrangeas (Hydrangea spp.) are dazzling to the eye with their large, clustered blooms, which is why they are popular with gardeners. While these perennial shrubs are mostly easy to tend to, there are ...

Panicled hydrangeas, for example, are more cold-hardy and can probably be neglected a little later into the cold months before you give them winter protection. The famous mophead, or bigleaf hydrangea ...

Late fall is the time to consider getting certain hydrangeas prepared for winter. You need to take precautions for hydrangeas that flower on old wood. Flowers on these hydrangeas, hydrangea ...

Q: My hydrangea didn't bloom any better this year than it did last year after the really cold winter. I was told to try pruning the bush last fall, which I did. Did that kill the blooms? Or was it the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cold of winter can be very challenging for plants in pots. Unlike plants that are directly in the ground, container plants don ...

Residents on the South Shore have weathered a rough winter so far, battening down the hatches, cranking up the generators and digging out after a big snow. Sure, we're tough New Englanders, good at ...

In a normal year, the hydrangeas would be thick with leafy growth and holding aloft conspicuous buds to open at month's end either as lacecaps or globes, thus introducing an effervescent spring to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images Hydrangeas are brimming with nostalgia, stirring memories of endless Southern summers. When winter arrives, these ...