Hydrangea Guides, Charts & Infographics
Need a quick hydrangea answer? Browse our practical visual guides for identification, pruning, watering, spacing, blooms, color changes, frost damage, leaf problems and more.
Start by identifying your hydrangea, then choose the guide that matches what you need help with. Click any image or button to open the full-size guide.
🌿 Care Basics
Start here to identify your hydrangea and understand its basic sun, water and seasonal care needs.
Hydrangea Identification Guide
Hydrangea Sun Requirements Guide
Hydrangea Watering Guide
Hydrangea Care by Month
✂️ Pruning & Deadheading
Not sure whether your hydrangea blooms on old wood or new wood? Learn which hydrangeas bloom on old wood vs. new wood, why it matters for flowering, and when each type should be pruned before reaching for the pruners.
How to Prune Bigleaf Hydrangeas
Pruning Panicle Hydrangeas
Pruning an Established Panicle Hydrangea
Hydrangea Deadheading Guide
🪴 Planting & Spacing
Give hydrangeas and other landscape plants enough space to reach their mature size and choose locations that match their sun and shade needs.
New Home Plant Layout & Sun/Shade Guide
Hydrangea Spacing Guide
🌸 Blooms & Color
Find help with bloom timing, flower color and panicle hydrangea comparisons.
Hydrangea Bloom Calendar
Hydrangea Color Change Guide
Panicle Hydrangea Comparison Guide
🔎 Problems & Troubleshooting
Use the symptoms you see to help narrow down what may be affecting your hydrangea.
What’s Wrong With My Hydrangea?
Hydrangea Leaf Spot Guide
Hydrangea Frost Damage Guide
Hydrangea Heat Stress or Disease?
Looking for more than a quick chart?
Visit our complete hydrangea care guide for more detailed help with planting, watering, pruning, flowering and common hydrangea problems.
Visit the Complete Hydrangea Care Guide