How to Grow and Care for a PeeGee Hydrangea Tree

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PeeGee hydrangea tree.

What Is Included in This Post:

The Season When PeeGee Hydrangea Trees Bloom
Preparing the Soil
Planting Your PeeGee Hydrangea Tree
Growth Rate of a PeeGee Hydrangea Tree

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Growing a PeeGee hydrangea tree in your yard or cottage garden will bring a large display of beautiful blooms that last all summer long. I live in Northern Utah and regular hydrangeas do not do well with the long harsh winters in my area. However, PeeGee hydrangea trees are frost-tolerant and cold hardy trees/shrubs that are perfect for my climate.

If you have issues growing hydrangeas, try growing PeeGee hydrangea trees and growing gorgeous hydrangeas in your garden. I love them so much, I planted two of them!

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The Season When PeeGee Hydrangea Trees Bloom

The PeeGee hydrangea tree blooms from mid to late summer through early fall. The flowers are rather large and look like puffy snowballs! If you find that your PeeGee hydrangea tree is not blooming or producing enough blooms, consider the climate conditions like extreme drought, heat, or too much exposure to the sun. Be sure to keep the tree well-hydrated and mulched.

The PeeGee hydrangea tree does well in full sun or partial shade. Properly pruning in early spring can help increase blooms and foliage and prevent diseases from spreading throughout the tree from season to season. Pruning is especially important for PeeGee hydrangea trees considering new blooms grow on new growth every year.

You can expect to see new growth of buds in early spring with blooms starting in July that last well through early fall. You can cut fresh stems throughout the summer and bring them inside in watered vases to spruce up your home and enjoy them inside!

Preparing the Soil

Prepare your soil with well-composted organic matter before planting your PeeGee hydrangea tree. You do not need to stress over the acidic level of your soil with a PeeGee hydrangea tree since it will not affect the color of the blooms. Since they need enough moisture and water to provide blooms, keep the soil mulched at all times throughout the life of the tree.

Be sure the soil is well-draining to prevent root rot. Do not allow the tree to sit in standing water. To perform an easy soil draining test before planting, follow the simple steps provided in my other post 4 Easy DIY Garden Soil Tests to Do Now to help prepare your soil for planting.

Planting Your PeeGee Hydrangea Tree

This is one of my bare-root PeeGee hydrangea trees planted in the ground waiting for his mulch.

Early summer or fall is the best time to plant your PeeGee hydrangea tree. Choose a location with well-draining soil with full to partial sun exposure. Allow ample space for the tree to grow with a drip line of ten feet.

To prevent root rot, plant it in a shallow hole approximately half the depth of the nursery container it came in and twice as wide. Planting too deep could cause the roots to rot. Pat down the soil around the tree until it is snuggled neatly in the earth in its new home. Provide the tree with mulch to help retain water and moisture.

While these plants are low maintenance, they do require a regular watering schedule. Keep the tree well-watered two to three times per week as they are not a drought-tolerant plant.

If you notice the flowers are wilting in the summer heat, provide water and shade. They do best in the morning sun, so if the area provides morning sun and afternoon shade, your tree will live a happy life!

While fertilizer is not necessary, you can help them remain healthy with regularly seasoned compost amended each year. Prune off old growth to allow new growth of the tree to produce healthy foliage and flowers.

These plants can live a long life up to fifty years so be sure to plant them in an area they can permanently remain.

Growth Rate of a PeeGee Hydrangea Tree

PeeGee hydrangea trees are fast-growing trees that can grow five to ten feet high with a radius of ten feet. Again, be sure to provide them with enough growing space for their long lifespan.

I am excited about the two hydrangea trees I planted this late spring and watch them grow at a fast rate from their bare-root state. Right now mine look like little sticks poking out of the ground, but soon they will be a gorgeous tree/shrub with gorgeous blooms on either side of our front porch!

Their beauty will bring joy and happiness and a wonderful fragrance to the entry of our little cottage home. They will be the focal point of the front cottage garden growing alongside colorful roses, hollyhocks, irises, and foxgloves!

You can learn more about how I started growing my cottage garden at How to Design a Cottage Garden: Growing a Beautiful Mess. You can also learn more about what is growing in my cottage garden in my Cottage Garden category.

I grow a lot of different perennial flowers in my cottage garden. I try to mix plants up to provide my cottage garden with blooms from early spring with tulips and irises to summer to fall with hydrangeas and roses.