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Hi yall I have a area by my back porch i have a hydrangea planted there and that area gets tons of water! and i never knew that it wold drian but its only been raining a sprinkle and already their is a huge puddle of water surrounding my hydrangea I do not want it to drown so what can i do? I know i could move it but i like where its at I was thiking like getting some pvc pipe and crating like a spout on top of the ground for the water to drain into and did the area and let the pipe go somewhere else into the yard? theirs no room for a rain barrle where its at... any help would be great!

You could put pipes to drain the soil away, but make sure the water drains somewhere where it won't be a nuisance. what you could do also is to dig up the hydrangea, then amend the soil with compost or something else to make it drain better. You could try digging deeper under the hole (double digging) and the water will drain further down. Another thing I can think of is to try planting some moisture loving plants there, and let them soak up the water.

I was just going to post that Joclyn.

I have 7 hydrangeas and I water the heck out of them. They love water. Yours should be just fine.

I put mine where they'd get rain run off, like they said they love the water and get droopy leafed if they don't get enough

wow thank you all!! i didnt know they liked water ill leave it where it uis until i have to dig it up to move it to our new house next month! thanks youz all buncghes!

I've heard that hydrangeas love water and mine was getting hit with lots of water each spring, but this year it won't come up, it had one bloom last year so I was looking forward to this year real bad, and now this. Are you sure they love LOTS of water.

Wish I could say that about mine Joclyn, but mine was only 3 years old. I feel pretty bad that it won't come up. I'm not ready to dig it up though and replace it with something else this year, maybe it will grow yet. I'll take my chance and leave the spot bare.