Hi, hydrangea adviceI am worried that my hydrangea has died

I'm sorry to say it looks dead to me. Try scratching a bit of woody stem and if there is no green showing.....

O.K, thank you. I have just done the scratch test on sepearte parts of the plants and bothwere brown underneat also.

I will have to buy another next year as one of my neighbours loved it, and so did I.

My local GC had a couple reduced last time I went there, so I may have a look and see if I can snap one up.

Alex not only is your hydrangea dead it looks as if it has been sadly neglected and under watered. Did you actually plant it in the ground? If so did you so the pot with the hydrangea in in a bucket of water and then tease out the roots before plants. Even more importantly did you actually keep it watered as the soil looks as dry as dust!

The hydrangea has been in this state for a few weeks, but I just thought it was dying down, before being told that it should still be alive.

The plant was kept watered whilst alive whilst actually in the ground, and that spot eventhough as dry as dust had heavy rain soak it yesterday.

I will admit that it looks as if I forgot to tease the roots out.

Just one question now that I hae found a healthy looking one, pictured above. Can cuttings be taken from hydrangeas?

For some reaosn it will not upload the picture the right way round. it has uploaded how the camera took it and not as it should do after being rotated.

Alex, I notice that you have a healthy lavender there and I suspect as I think Moon growe does, that your hydrangea will not thrive in such a spot. Lavender likes very free draining dry conditions, Hydrangea's do not, have you got another place for it ?

I can move it to a different position. The plant has not yet been removed from it's pot. It is sitting on top of the hole left by the old one.

Then I would definitely move somewhere with more humus in the soil, and keep well watered until late autumn but do not feed.

Thank you MG.