I have hydrangeas and wouldn’t cut those green leaves off. If you leave them it may recover. For future reference, try leaving old foliage, including blooms, on over winter as they help protect new shoots from frost in the early spring. Then cut off old blooms when danger of frost gone. They look messy over winter, but they more than make up for that with new grown and blooms in spring/summer.
Abquine on
I’d wait another couple of weeks to ensure all the frosts are passed and then prune back to a live bud. I regularly cut old Hydrangea back severely and they come back better.
stuntedmonk on
Leave it. They’re pretty solid
Double-elephant on
Leave them; they don’t look that bad. Next year, don’t be in a hurry to cut the dried flowers off – they really do protect the buds…
Kindly-Ad-8573 on
It’s in quite a small container and competing for resources for its new buds and leaves a lite feed and regular water when frost is off the weather reports will help it on a bit .
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I have hydrangeas and wouldn’t cut those green leaves off. If you leave them it may recover. For future reference, try leaving old foliage, including blooms, on over winter as they help protect new shoots from frost in the early spring. Then cut off old blooms when danger of frost gone. They look messy over winter, but they more than make up for that with new grown and blooms in spring/summer.
I’d wait another couple of weeks to ensure all the frosts are passed and then prune back to a live bud. I regularly cut old Hydrangea back severely and they come back better.
Leave it. They’re pretty solid
Leave them; they don’t look that bad. Next year, don’t be in a hurry to cut the dried flowers off – they really do protect the buds…
It’s in quite a small container and competing for resources for its new buds and leaves a lite feed and regular water when frost is off the weather reports will help it on a bit .