Need a hardier hydrangea for your garden? Try growing a panicle hydrangea — a lower-maintenance, bold-blooming choice.

But it’s hard to beat smooth hydrangea, which can be chopped back drastically and still reach 3 to 5 feet tall during the same growing season. It’ll still flower because smooth hydrangea flower buds ...

In Fielding Questions, readers also asked about how to divide a hydrangea and whether you can plant anything under evergreens ...

There's a suitable hydrangea for almost any garden, but that doesn't mean they'll grow anywhere. Read our list of six places ...

Sue U. A: The shrub in your photo is a panicle-type hydrangea with its cone-shaped, pyramidal flower clusters. Unlike the Annabelle-type hydrangeas with large round white flowers that die back to ...