Hydrangea Pinkie Winky - This is a shrub with lush buds that can create a magnificent background for landscape design in your garden. Its bloom is long lasting, and the beauty of flowers is amazing. Shrub does not belong to unpretentious, but it is also impossible to call it capricious. Just need to know all the features of care. Consider them in more detail.
- Description of the variety
- Choosing a place in the garden
- Lighting for landing
- Soil selection for shrubs
- The main stages of planting Pinkie Winky hydrangea variety
- Plant growing rules
- Do I need to often water the bush
- Features feeding and care for the soil
- Pruning Hydrangea Trimming
- Breeding features
- How to prepare the plant for winter
Description of the variety
The variety of hydrangea paniculata Pinky Winki was bred in Belgium in 2003. Its distinctive feature is a cone-shaped inflorescences of large size (up to 20 cm long). They consist of fetal and sterile flowers. Flowering begins in July and continues until the cold October. Hortensia blooms in white, but eventually turns purple-pink.
The coloring of the inflorescences occurs gradually, so the same brush can have white and pink flowers.This gives picturesque shrubs. Elliptical leafy plants of a large size, pubescent from above, in summer green, in autumn - reddish. The size of the bush can be quite large: about two meters in diameter and up to two meters in height. The plant consists of several trunks, the shoots are straight and strong, so do not need to tie them.
Choosing a place in the garden
To choose the right place for planting, it is necessary to proceed from the characteristics of the variety and its large size. Pinky Winky variety does not like transplants because of the superficial and bulk root system. Given this, you must immediately choose a suitable permanent place. Replanting a plant, you damage its root system, and this significantly impairs its development.
Lighting for landing
The plant loves sunny beds with a slight shade.Better fit a place with bright sunshine half a day and a little penumbra at other times. 
Soil selection for shrubs
The plant is demanding to the soil. The flower grows in loose, fertile soil with a pH of 4.5 - 5.5. These are acid podzolic soils. Soil fertility should be regularly raised with fertilizers for hydrangea. Also, the soil under the bush needs constant loosening.
The main stages of planting Pinkie Winky hydrangea variety
Hydrangea paniculata Pinky Winky for the successful development in need of proper planting and care. Plant shrubs better in early spring. Planted in the fall of the plant should be covered for the winter. The seedling is placed in a shallow hole (up to 50 cm deep), having previously well moistened it and placing a mixture of peat, sand, humus and coniferous litter on the bottom. It should be remembered that the root system develops in breadth, so the hole should be wide. You can add mineral fertilizers when planting (25 g of urea, 65 g of superphosphate, 25 g of potassium sulfate). Well asleep so that the neck of the root was near the surface. Later the plant is watered and mulched. Until the final engraftment, the plant needs regular watering.
Plant growing rules
Annually, shoots of Pinkie Winky hydrangea grow on average by 30 cm. The number and size of inflorescences depend on simple rules for caring for shrubs. 
Do I need to often water the bush
Pinky Winky is moisture-loving. With insufficient watering, flowering abundance and size of inflorescences are significantly reduced. To avoid this, it is necessary to carry out mulching. Its purpose is to maintain sufficient moisture in the root zone and protect the roots of the plant from overheating. For this, the soil in the area of the hydrangea roots is sprinkled with sawdust, peat, bark, pine needles up to 10 cm thick. Water the bush often and abundantly. In the summer at least once a week in the amount of 15-20 liters of water, in spring and autumn - once every two weeks.
Features feeding and care for the soil
Proper feeding of Pinkie Winky hydrangea promotes good growth and lush flowering plants. Feeding is carried out in several stages: in the spring for good growth, in June for the formation of flowering and during flowering for lush flowers and the formation of buds of the next year. To do this, use complex fertilizers for rhododendrons and azaleas or hydrangeas, as well as organic fertilizers. 
Pruning Hydrangea Trimming
Proper cutting of paniculate hydrangea should take place in the fall and spring. In the autumn, it is necessary to cut dried inflorescences so that the snow does not break the shoots of the plant. In early spring, before awakening the plant, all weak and dried shoots under the stump should be removed, and the strong ones should be shortened to 2-3 pairs of buds. Pruning carried out over the kidney, leaving no large hemp. It activates the growth of new shoots. If you cut the hydrangea short, the inflorescences will be large, and if it is sparing, the number of pyramids will increase, but their size will be smaller. For mature shrubs spend rejuvenating pruning.
The formation of a hydrangea bush resembles the formation of a tree. The trunk is cut, and skeletal branches form from the place of cutting. These branches are also pruned, and they give their shoots, which are also pruned.
Breeding features
The reproduction of this type of hydrangea produce cuttings or layering. For breeding by layering choose a strong branch of a plant, bend it to the ground and fix.From above the place of fixing is sprinkled with soil. A year later, the layers will take root, and it is transplanted to a permanent place. This process can be carried out in spring or early autumn.
During pruning, unnecessary branches can be used for cuttings. The stalk should contain 3-4 internodes. The lower parts of the cut cuttings are treated with a growth promoter and put in cups of soil. Two parts of the cutting must be in the soil and one on top. The soil mixture is prepared from sand and peat in equal proportions. Markets on top are covered with plastic wrap. Planted cuttings in the soil after the appearance of new shoots.
In autumn or spring you can multiply the hydrangea by dividing the bush.
How to prepare the plant for winter
The shrub of this variety of hydrangea is frost resistant. It withstands temperatures up to -25 degrees. Moreover, the older and stronger the plant, the easier it endures winter and does not need shelter.Young plants up to 3 years of age must be covered. To do this, use a layer of rotted manure or dry leaves and peat, covering the root zone. Shelter thickness should be 16-20 cm.
