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Planting 3 Fire Light Tidbit Hydrangeas & How to Care for Them



This video is about Fire Light Tidbit Hydrangeas and how to care for them: planting, fertilizing, pruning and growing requirements. Fire Light Tidbits are compact so they fit into gardens of any size! I’m planting 3 of them in my front yard garden for color and curb appeal: Summer into Fall flowers that change color plus gorgeous Fall foliage too! Also it was a super windy day: my camera tripod blew over — talk about live action video!

Chapters:

0:00 – Fire Light Tidbit complete growing information
4:19 – “Sleep — Creep — Leap” explained
5:27 – Fertilizing and pruning
6:58 – Planting 3 Fire Light Tidbits
8:55 – The wind tries to ruin my video!
9:12 – How the front garden bed looks with the new Fire Light Tidbits and what else is planted around them

Photos courtesy of Spring Meadow Nursery and Proven Winners
Thank you!

I purchased my Fire Light Tidbits from GreatGardenPlants.com — a fantastic online nursery!
https://www.greatgardenplants.com/

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12 Comments

  1. Nick Name

    I had such a fun time with this video, the wind and the "B" part 😂you always make me laugh, I love your videos <3 <3 <3

  2. Will Aerley

    That’s awesome that you get fall foliage color from your hydrangeas. I’m pleased to report that my butterfly bush is showing signs of life. My shy pink frost hellebore has leafed out, but the buds are still an inch off the ground and refuse to budge. And my poppy field has surprisingly germinated. (I’m not good with seeds)

  3. Jackie’s Plant Haven

    It is my first time planting the Fire Light Tid Bit and I am looking forward to how it will adapt. Your plants are lovely! Happy gardening!

  4. Lori Cawley

    Hey, Laura! 👋🏻 As always, love seeing ur plant choices, and u always provide so much great info on everything! 🥰 Tyfs these hydrangeas in particular bc I have an afternoon shady spot (west Tx, zone 8a) in the backyard I’ve been thinking of planting with these exact plants. I’ve long said I have hydrangea envy every time I see urs lol! 😍🤣😍 My only hesitation in the past in planting these has been bc they’re considered toxic to dogs, and we have three. That being said, our dogs live inside, and I’ve been observing them closely around new plants that I’ve steadily been adding back there. I’ve seen that the dogs leave my plants alone so I’ve decided (esp after ur video) that I’m going to add two of these to that spot in my backyard. We don’t get much fall color here so anything that blooms in the summer and also gives fall color always catches my eye. Can’t wait to watch urs grow! ❤

  6. Maureen McKenna

    I live in a gated community, where many of the properties were filled in to raise the foundation of the house to be above street level. Some of it had been a pasture for cows for years. In raising the land, the fill was mostly of a clay nature, or worse. There is no way I can use the “native soil” to plant anything. When you take a shovel full of it out of the ground, the entire mass sticks to the shovel. If the turned over soil sits on the ground for 24 hours it hardens to the consistency of a rock. It can sometimes even be malodorous. So, when I plant in a new area, I must dig out a substantial size hole, get rid of the “native soil” and amend with a combination of planting soil, light and airy, a high humus soil, and a very good compost. I mix this all in my wheelbarrow, about a third of each, and that becomes the medium for the plants. I also put Bio Tone in the hole, and amend the top layer with a sprinkling of great compost. Have been doing this for twenty years, and have, in effect, taken out the top 12 to 15 inches of the existing soil in every bed. Plants could never develop an adequate root system in the existing “fill” on my property.

  8. SAMMY’S WORLD

    Hi Laura. How exciting you planted 3 firelight tidbits. I planted one in a container a month ago & is doing fabulous. Can’t wait to see it bloom.

  9. Graham Thomas

    Great plants but all I think 🤔 of is can I take CUTTINGS lol thanks for your time and information tips 👍👍👍👍👍

  10. Mary K

    I planted a tidbit last year. Love it! I also had bunny grasses in my front and side of house. Cute at first, then they got ratty over the years and I felt exactly like you——they did nothing for me—- so out they came!

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