My hydrangias are white. Is there any way to turn them blue or white THIS season?

Question

Hopefully, something free :)

Sorry..blue or PINK lol

Answer 1

coffee grounds, tea bags, rusty nails, epsom salts

Answer 2

They are white and will probably stay white. It is different variety than the variety that can be blue or pink depending on the ph of the soil!


Hydrangea macrophylla
It is a deciduous shrub, growing 1-3 m tall. The leaves are opposite, simple ovoid-acute, 7-20 cm long, with a coarsely toothed margin. Its flowers are pink, white, or blue, depending on soil pH. In acid soils the flowers will be blue, in alkaline soils the flowers will be pink. In neutral soils plants will be purple. White flowered varieties do not change colour whether soil pH is alkaline or acid.

Answer 3

There are different types of hydrangias. You probably have an oak leaf or other type. The colored types are called French Hydrangias. These are blue or pink depending on the PH of the soil. You can't turn a white one into a colored one - they are two different varieties

Answer 4

You can try acid-type plant food to turn them pink, or lime to turn them blue--typically. Don't use too much.

Answer 5

You can use just plain old lime in your soil,it will cause the acid change ( nitrogen,and phourpous)etc, It should change the color. Garden center advice,Good Luck

Answer 6

I've tried variegating flowers and used food coloring in the water so that the plant can soak up the color -- it worked a little, but not what I wanted. You could try that --

Answer 7

Go to your local home center or garden center and get Alum soil treatment. That will turn them blue. ;)

Answer 8

white hydrangeas don't change color.. pink/blue ones do. if you have pink, add acid.. like garden sulphur.. to turn blue ones pink, add alkalinity, like lime.

Answer 9

Yes, go to your garden store and they sell special acids for blooming different colors, they work well

Answer 10

rusty nails is the way to do it one other poster said this too.