Question
Hello, how are you going? Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. My name is Christina and I live in Australia. I have a hydrangea plant that I love, and it had beautiful flowers, but my sister whos job it is to water the pot plants daily, has got schizophrenia, as my Mum thought that getting her to water the pot plants would be good therapy for her as she doesn't work because of her illness. But she didn't water them, who knows what she did when she goes out there with the watering can, and now I just found out that my beautiful hydrangea is now just a grey stump. My Mum says that its dead and that it has been just a grey stump for ages. Is there any way I can save my beautiful plant? It has no flowers and no leaves now and it is about 12cm high only now and it is just branches that are grey and nothing at all looks green on it, even when I snap a branch it is not green inside. I love my little plant. Thanks heaps for your time, I do appreciate it a lot. Kind Regards, from Christina

Answer
You can try watering the pot and keep the soil moist but not wet and see if the plant will sprout form the roots BUT It sounds like the plant is dead. Sorry! It will not hurt anything but a little time to try waiting and see if it sprouts. Some hydrangeas will die back in the winter and re sprout in the spring.