Hydrangea Pinkie Winky

The pinky winky panicle hydrangea was obtained by breeding specialists from Europe in about two thousand nine. Very quickly, the variety found unprecedented success. Today, the Pinky Winky hydrangea variety is still popular with summer residents because of its excellent presentation, a rather long and abundant flowering process, and also a good level of cold resistance.

The Pinkie Winky hydrangea variety is also quite whimsical and asks to follow some cultivation rules. However, without paying attention to this, it is usually used in the manufacture of unusual landscape designs.

Panicle hydrangea Pinky Winky pinky winky: photo of the variety

Hydrangea Pinky Winky: variety description and characteristics

The Pinky Winky panicle hydrangea is a flowering, deciduous bush. This herbaceous is small in size. Upward, the plant usually grows no more than two hundred centimeters, but it grows rather rapidly, with an annual growth of up to thirty centimeters.

The branches of Pinkie Winky hydrangea are quite strong, which allows it to maintain a dense and beautiful crown shape during the flowering process. Strong and resilient shoots perfectly hold the weight of the flowers, which are abundant on the bush. Shrubs of this variety do not require pegs for support.

The foliage has a dark greenish color and the shape of an elongated oval. In the fall season, the foliage turns red, giving the shrub an even more decorative appearance.

The flowering process of Pinky Winky's panicle hydrangea begins from the second week of the first summer month to the second autumn month. It differs in strong flowering, a large number of flowers in the form of a regular cone and a length of about thirty centimeters open on all shrubs. Small flowers are combined into inflorescences, the size of one flower, approximately three centimeters.

Pinky Winky's panicle hydrangea has a high level of cold resistance and suffers a prolonged drop in temperature, to about minus twenty-five degrees without a cape. And adult shrubs endure the winter season up to minus thirty degrees. The more mature the shrub is, the greater its level of resistance to cold.

Pinky Winky panicle hydrangea: photo of the variety

Hydrangea Pinkie Winky: planting and caring for the variety

Pinky Winky's panicle hydrangea is ideal for landscape design, giving more green mass in squares, in summer cottages, backyards and suburban areas. With its intense flowering process, the plant will add zest to any landscape and make it unique and unique.

In order for Pinkie Winky's hydrangea to develop and bloom well every year, it is required to endow the herbaceous with favorable conditions. This is a rather picky bush that will not grow in every area.

The following are considered important criteria for cultivating Pinky Winky hydrangea varieties:

• enough sunlight.
• constituents of the soil.
• a sufficient amount of moisture.

Pinky Winky hydrangea shrubs are quite capricious in terms of lighting. They prefer not completely shaded areas, however, and do not tolerate direct sunlight.

For herbaceous soil, it is necessary to be light and extremely acidic or slightly acidic.Even on neutral soil, the plant will develop abnormally and will not want to carry out the flowering process, and on soils with an alkaline reaction, the plant will quickly die.

Pinkie Winky's panicle hydrangea loves moisture. However, the plant does not withstand the drying out of the soil, but does not like excessive moisture either.

When choosing an excellent site for planting this plant, it is necessary to take into account the shade at noon. The plant is recommended to be planted under the shelter of tree crowns.

When planting Pinky Winky hydrangeas on neutral or alkaline soils, it is possible to use large containers filled with acidic soil, which are placed in the soil. You should not plant bushes in dry areas, and even in especially moist areas. It is also required to develop a grassy shelter from strong and cold winds with the help of walls of buildings or a fence.

Pinkie Winky panicle hydrangea: photo in landscape design

Planting Pinky Winky hydrangeas is carried out in the spring season when the temperature indicator is set in the positive position. Most often this is carried out at the beginning or from the second week of the last spring month, when the soil is well warmed up.

Immediately before planting pinky winky hydrangea, you must:

• Make a landing hole.
• Prepare the soil with the required composition.
• Prepare planting material for planting.

The width of the planting bow for the planting material of this plant must be at least sixty centimeters, and the depth must be at least fifty centimeters. These dimensions are due to the fact that the herbaceous root system is not located far in the ground, it is located on the surface. The finished planting hole is moistened with a liquid, consuming two to three containers of liquid. Then the soil is prepared for planting.

Pinky Winky panicle hydrangea: photo of the variety

For the growth and flowering process of Pinkie Winky's panicle hydrangea, it is not enough to plant it in ordinary garden soil, even if they have an acidic reaction. The plant is quite capricious to the constituents of the soil. It should be fertile, but not heavy.

The optimal composition for planting Pinkie Winky hydrangeas is provided below:

• leafy soil.
• peat.
• humus.
• coniferous soil.
• sand.

All components from the composition are obtained in identical proportions and mixed with each other. For all herbaceous plants, a little superphosphate is poured into the soil.

Planting materials purchased or cultivated with their own hands must be prepared immediately before planting. The root system is trimmed slightly so that it is approximately the same size. It is also possible to cut the branches of the bush into one or two buds.

The planting material is placed in the middle of the planting hole, and then its root system is sprinkled with prepared soil. The planted shrub should be located at a depth so that its root collar is at the level of the soil. Then the shrub is thoroughly moistened, and the area near the trunk is covered with a layer of mulch from peat or shavings.

Pinky winky panicle hydrangea: photo of the variety

Care for Pinkie Winky hydrangea during the warm season

The Pinkie Winky panicle hydrangea variety needs careful farming. The most important for him are the following procedures:

• watering the plant.
• constant fertilization.
• pruning a plant.

This type of Pinkie Winky hydrangea is a lover of moisture. For its growth, the soil must be slightly moistened all the time, and its drying leads to an accelerated death of the herbaceous one. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to the hydration of the plant, especially during the hot summer months.

On hot days, pinkie winky panicle hydrangea bushes are moistened at least twice every seven days. In the spring season and autumn season on dry days, moisturize every seven days. On days with precipitation in the form of rain, moistening is not performed, because an excessive amount of moisture leads to infection of the grass and its death.

Pinky Winky panicle hydrangea: photo of the variety

Without constant fertilization of the Pinky Winky hydrangea variety, there will be no flowering process every year. The bush is fertilized during the entire flowering and growing process.

Top dressing is placed in the ground at least once every thirty-one days, but one part of summer residents with experience is advised to fertilize every fourteen days.

Fertilization is started after the formation of the first foliage in the spring season. At this time, fertilize with fertilizing with nitrogen for the accelerated formation of green mass. As a fertilizing with nitrogen, an infusion of cow fertilizer or diluted bird droppings are used.

When the first buds appear on the shrub, it is necessary to start fertilizing with dressings with potassium and phosphorus, or only with potassium, in order to endow the plant with a long and rich flowering process. For this, superphosphate or special mixtures for this plant are used.

Pruning is a necessary agricultural technique for this plant. It is produced twice every twelve months. In the spring season, before the growing season, a shaping pruning is performed, during which the required shape is set.

Dried and infected shoots are removed. Branches growing in the center of the crown are also removed. In the autumn season, sanitary pruning is carried out before the winter season.

Pinkie Winky panicle hydrangea: photo in landscape design

Pinkie Winky Hydrangea Care in Winter

Pinkie Winky's panicle hydrangea requires preparation for the winter season. At the end of the autumn season, sanitary pruning of shrubs is arranged. I remove all the dried flowers along with two or three upper buds. Branches with defects are also cut off. Immediately after this, the grassy ground is covered with a large layer of fallen leaves.

The Pinky Winky hydrangea variety tolerates cold temperatures in the winter season down to minus twenty-five degrees. However, the branches of young grassy ones may be defective even at minus ten degrees. Therefore, herbaceous ones for up to three years are advised not to be planted in fresh air, but to be cultivated in containers that can be placed in a warm space for the winter season.

Well adapted in the open air, but still young herbaceous for the winter season should be covered. Most often, the shoots of the bush are bent to the soil and covered with spruce branches or fallen leaves are poured. Polyethylene is placed on top of the grassy one.

Old shrubs of Pinkie Winky panicle hydrangea require shelter exclusively in regions with cold climates. If the shrub endures the winter season without shelter, with heavy snowfalls, the snow cover is removed from it so that the shoots do not bend under its weight.

Pinky Winky panicle hydrangea: photo of the variety

Reproduction of hydrangea varieties

There are a couple of methods for breeding pinky winky's panicle hydrangea:

• using seeds.
• using cuttings.
• by rooting layers.

Pinky Winky hydrangea is rarely bred with the help of seeds. This is a rather lengthy and complex method. A shrub cultivated from seeds begins to bloom no earlier than four to five years after wetting. Therefore, at home, the plant is bred in a vegetative way, or with the help of layering, or with the help of cuttings.

Cuttings for deepening are cut off during the formation of buds. To do this, cut off the greenish branches of a given year with buds. They are cut into pieces with three pairs of leaves.

The foliage growing from below is removed and the upper foliage is completely removed. It is advised to wet the cuttings for two to three hours in a preparation that stimulates the growth of the root system.

Pinky Winky panicle hydrangea: photo of the variety

Cuttings of Pinky Winky hydrangea are planted in a container filled with a wet mixture, which includes peat and sand in identical proportions. The container is closed with polyethylene and placed in a warm room, where the temperature does not drop below twenty degrees.With constant watering of the earth and airing, the cuttings take root every day after a month and a half.

For the winter season, the container is taken out into a warm space. Planting material is advised to be planted in fresh air no earlier than at the age of two to three years.

Breeding Pinky Winky hydrangeas using layering is considered a fairly well-known method, allowing you to quickly have a flowering shrub. Layers are formed on elongated branches located at the bottom. They are cut off to the middle of the shoot, I put a match in the cut. Then the branch is buried in the soil in the incised part and fixed to the soil, and its upper part is directed vertically.

The layers are rooted for the autumn season. For the winter season, they are advised to cover them with a layer of mulch from fallen leaves or cover them with the parent shrub. And in the spring season, the layering can already be divided from the old shrub and changing the place to a new one.

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Pinky Winky panicle hydrangea: reviews of gardeners

• Margarita Stepanovna, Sverdlovsk region: »Pinkie Winky's panicle hydrangea variety was advised to me to try growing in a garden plot by my sister, as the variety tolerates disease and cold well, which is a huge advantage for the conditions in my area. I have never regretted my choice. In the landscape design of the garden, Pinkie Winky's hydrangea looks simply amazing. The flowers are voluminous, spreading, delicate. I will continue to grow this variety ”.

• Anastasia Ivanovna, Chelyabinsk region: “My family and I really liked Pinkie Winky's hydrangea. Immediately after the opening, the flowers of the Pinkie Winky hydrangea variety have a snow-white color, but then they acquire a pink color, and by the autumn season they change color to purple. During this flowering period, the color of the flowers changes a couple of times. It looks just amazing and very unusual. Of course, care for Pinky Winky's hydrangea must be very careful, however, as well as for many other flower varieties. Timely watering and proper feeding give their results, and Pinky Winky's panicle hydrangea begins to delight with its beauty. "