How to Root and Pot Hydrangea Cuttings From Your Own Garden

Summer days, warm nights, and thunder showers. This is the season of the Hydrangea! Hydrangeas are one of the most popular flowering perennials today. They are easily cared for and pruned to give you spectacular color all Summer long! From a single plant, here is a simple step-by-step method of trimming your existing Hydrangea, rooting and potting it, to add more Hydrangea's to your garden.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Mature Hydrangea - Of the Mophead variety (Endless Summer, Nikko Blue). These are available at your favorite Nursery Store now).
• Garden Trowel
• Pruning sheers or Scissors
• Vase
• Water
• One Quart Pots

1. 
   Trimming your Hydrangea plant

   From a healthy, mature Hydrangea, make a cut using Scissors or pruning sheers, 6"-8" inches down from the flower above the set of leaf nodules (where the leaves grow out from the stem). This is part of the Hydrangea' s new growth this season.

2. 
   Hydrangea Vase

   Remove the bottom leaves from the freshly cut stem and discard.
   Place the stem into the Vase of clean tap water. Set in window or counter area. Change out the water in your vase every day.
   
   Within two to three weeks roots will begin to appear around the nodules.

3. 
   Potting the Stems

   Planting:
   
   You may remove a stem from the Vase and plant it in one-quart pots. Water them well, and place in a sunny location.

4. Your new Hydrangea will begin to develop secondary roots in about 6 weeks. In the Fall, they may be transplanted to a garden or stored in a nursery area or greenhouse for Spring plantings..

Tips & Warnings

• Keep pots moistened
• Do not over water!

Resources

• Propagate Your Shrubs
• Hydrangea Identification