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Alright, so we are going to put our lace cap hydrangeas in a hole and the first thing you got to do of course is you got to dig the hole. I literally found the spot in the woods and of course you end up hitting a rock, you just kind of feel you way around. And I try to just put the shovel in there, trying to go around the rocks so if I find it when it is small I can dig it out. There is a lot of roots in here, remember we are deep in the woods. We have got a little bit drop of shade which should be good for this hydrangea it is probably not going to bloom.
But, I am actually more interested in the leaves than I am in the flowers. The leaves are variegated and I like that out here. So, I do not really care that it does not bloom. I am going it more for the leaf color and for the texture. Alright, so we are getting this hole dug, you do not want to go to deep here. That is anytime you are planting a shrub or a tree you want to be sure that it is the exact same level if it is in a pot or if it is in container you do not want it to be any deeper if it is bag and burlap or BNB. You want that trunk flare to show. And, with this particular plant, I do not want a little smidge deeper than it was when it was back over in other section of the garden. So, I think my hole is deep enough.
I am just going to pull this out and get this guy in there and it looks pretty good. Alright, it looks pretty good here. Alright, so we have got our hole dug now we want to put this bad boy in here and I am going to put all the roots on and I want to make sure that they are nice and even down in the ground. The other thing I am going to do is give it a nice drink and what I have got here is a little bit of plant starter type of food. So, this is special food that is made up for plants which you are going into shock. I mean this plant, we have just dug out of a hole and it is in shock.
So, this will help it to kind of set itself back into the ground. Most are going to mix a little bit of what we call super phosphate. So we think about the three numbers that are on a lot of your plant foods. This is the middle number. I do not want to fertilize with nitrogen at this time of the year because I do not want this to start growing but what this super phosphate will do—I am just going to put in I know about a quarter of a cup. A couple of hand full, put that in the hole what that would do is that is going to help to secure the roots again and get them going. So, all the next month or so when the roots is still able to grow before the ground freezes that will help the plant to really take.
Next spring, it will give it the available phosphate that it needs in order that this plant does survive the winter and grows really well next spring. Now, I want to take and move the soil that I dug out to that hole in there. Also, take a little bit of the soil from over where it was mix that in. Pack that down. Notice that I do not have this any deeper than it was in the other part of the yard that it is probably one of the most key things you can do and now that this in I will tap it down. I might add a little bit of organic soil if I need to because we are in the woods here. The soil is pretty good so I do not really need to amend the soil very much. Then, I will water this in, you want to be sure if your planting in the fall that your water all your new plantings right until that ground freezes on late November or early December and that it will help it survive through the winter.
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