Hydrangea Flower Fading. All flower photos on this page came from the free public domain. Someone else posted maybe a week ago and theirs were fading after less time than that.
Paniculata Grandiflora growing to a height of 9 metres is a common landscape hydrangea with tapering flower clusters opening white and fading to pink then to bronze. A fertilizer low in phosphorus and high in potassium is helpful in producing a good blue color 25530 is good. Normal progression of the flower.
The process of removing fading or spent blooms diverts the plants energy from seed production to new growth and saves the plant from having a wilted dying look.
06092001 After one or two seasons you may see its flowers fade to muddy lavender and then to washed-out blue. Changing the pH content of your soil the measurement of the acidalkaline composition can turn fading white hydrangea blooms back to pink. Finally soil acidity may be responsible for altering or fading flower color. These plants need around 3 hours of sun each day to flower well.