A question for some of the planty people on here, I have a quite substantial climbing hydrangea spaning two sections of 6x6 trellis at a right angle to a house wall as well as growing the same span again across the house brick wall and up and down towards the sill of the 1st floor windows. It has been happily flowering and deadheaded for years to the confines of the space
In the past few weeks it has been noticable to see some bare patches appearing (around 3ft diameter) as pictured. At first we thought it was frosted from a blast of cold air as the damage is within the section of trellis support and not against the wall, then maybe the heat on the new growth as the leaf growth seemed to get to a point and then stops growing, but other sections are fine with fully formed lush leaves etc
It is clear that these are all on the same branch when traced back to the main stems, what we are not sure is whether to cut out the worse bits as it would grow back eventually to cover the gaps, spray if a fungicide issue or try feeding watering around the root, which is in soil between an old patio and the house wall
Any ideas as I have not seen this before like this ?? Thank you
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drought maybe
You could try giving it a boost with some liquid seaweed sprayed onto the whole plant, I have found this to be a great a tonic to plants that are suffering in some way shape or form. I use the cold pressed type.
Has it been pruned back properly. It looks to me as some of the shoots (particularly the one at about 10am have grown overly long. I generally make sure that the ones under my care get a good prune after flowering, they then green up from the main stem for the following years flowers.
All that said it could be drought 😥
Thank you for the replies, I am going to make sure it gets a feed and cut out some of the problem areas with good pruning at the end of flowering