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Hi, this is Yolanda Vanveen. And in this segment we're going to talk about how to transplant
Hydrangeas. Now Hydrangeas are one of my favorite shade plants, they're so beautiful; they make
a nice bush with lots of color all summer long. But they're easy to transplant too.
They're just basically a set of roots. So this is a small Hydrangea so it'll be really
easy to transplant and I'm not going to cut it back in any way because it's not really
big. If I had a huge Hydrangea that was taking over the side of the house, I would probably
trim it down, at least 1/3 down so that it's not quite as big and lengthy to transplant.
And it's always easy to transplant in the fall as opposed to the mid-summer because
then you won't lose any blooms and they'll die back and you can cut them back and then
just move over the actual roots instead of the whole plant. But an easy rule of thumb
when transplanting Hydrangeas is go out at least past the leaf line and just make a big
circle around the plant. And I just kind of rock the plant out of the spot. And I just
go all the way around the plant. And I never just try to pull it out really hard because
a lot of times you'll break the actual stem and you'll lose part of the plant. But saying
that, my neighbor Larry actually brought me a Hydrangea plant from his house when I lived
in Portland and he just tied the whole plant to the bumper of his car; it was a huge Hydrangea.
Pulled it out of his yard, drove it over to my yard and asked me if I wanted it and I
kept it because it was a beautiful Hydrangea, and it survived wonderfully. So once I've
cut; kind of dug it out softly, you never want to pull from the plant. You always want
to kind of dig by the root and pull it out by the root. Because if you pull on the plant
you might break the whole thing off and you'll lose the whole plant. So once I've dug it
out too it always helps to shake off a lot of the dirt so you don't have to move all
the dirt to another area and it's not as heavy. So this is a small plant but you can see how
much root it already has. So you never want to let your Hydrangeas to get too dry so the
most important part of transplanting your Hydrangea is planting it back immediately
where you want to plant it. Or put it back into a pot until you find a good spot for
it. Never leave it too dry.