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HYDRANGEAS

Over the last few years, we've introduced more and more Hydrangea selections to our trial gardens and into our nursery inventory. This is a genus of flowering shrubs that we think offers something to every gardener in the southeast. We now have the species and cultivar choices to accomodate most all of them. We'd like to take this opportunity to show you some of these beautiful plants and their many uses.Take a shady spot in a small cottage garden

and slip in a 'Pia'
             or maybe a few 'Blue Billow' 

              with your perennials or other shade shrubs. Even an oakleaf selection -'Hydrangea quercifolia 'Pee Wee'-  will fit in a spot as small as 3x4 feet.


 

Maybe your plans call for a larger shrub. Maybe your client wants an old fashioned, reliable blue pompom like 'Nikko Blue' or an robust plant with unusual flowerheads like 'Ayesha'.
A larger oakleaf cultivar- Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alice'- has huge, upright white panicles and blooms in late spring. In addition, the foliage color is brilliant red in fall.
 
'AYESHA'
 

 
                                                                                                                          
 
 
 

If its not small or shady, but a large and sunny area you're trying to plant, there are still some great Hydrangeas for the job. Take 'Tardiva' or 'Pink Diamond' Hydrangea paniculata. These magnificent plants will take full sun or some shade, and they flower at the end of the summer- when nothing else does!
 

 
                                                                                                            'ALICE'
 
 



Hydrangeas certainly bring maximum color to a garden with minimum effort.
 

                                       'MERRITS SUPREME'                                                          'AMETHYST'                                       'BEAUTE VENDOMOISE'
 
 

    Given any size limitations, or cultural conditions, the right cultivar can give you the most brilliant blues , the most luscious mauves , the purest whites , pinks, lilacs, crimsons.
    Then there's the choice of flowerhead type. Sometimes the mopheads (more rounded, with many sterile florets) will blow you away.  Sometimes a dainty lacecap (flatter with a lacey center of fertile florets surrounded by a few sterile florets) will add just the right subtle color binding to the rest of the garden.

 
 
    Take a look at the chart following for comparative characteristics of the Hydrangeas we now carry. Although this is by no means an exhaustive list, I think you will find what you can use easily.
 
 


HYDRANGEA CHARACTERISTICS

NAME

Flower type

color

size

season of bloom

culture

Hydrangea anomola petiolaris

Lacecap

white

vine

spring

shade

Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'

Mophead

white

4-5'

summer

part shade

Hydrange aspera sargentiana

Lacecap

white/lavendar

6-8'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea involucrata

Lacecap

lilac/pink

3-4'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'All Summer Beauty'

Mophead

light pink/blue

4-5'

early summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Alpengluhen'

Mophead

rich red

4-5'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla'Amethyst'

Mophead

creamy lilac

4-5'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Ayesha'

Mophead

pink cupped

4-5'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Beaute Vendomoise'

Lacecap

white/blue

5-7'

late summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla ' Bouquet Rose'

Mophead

pink

2-3'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Generale Vicomtesse de Vibraye'

Mophead

brilliant blue

5-7'

repeat bloomer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Lanarth White'

Lacecap

white/blueite

4-6'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mme Emile Moulliere'

Mophead

white/blue eye

5-7'

repeat bloomer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mme Faustin Travouillon'

Mophead

blue

5-7'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nigra'

Mophead

blue/dark stems

4-6'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nikko Blue'

Mophead

blue

4-6'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Otaska'

Mophead

blue

3'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Paris'

Mophead

deep pink/purple

4-6'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Pia'

Mophead

pink

2-3'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Teller White'

Lacecap

white

4-6'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Tokyo Delight'

Lacecap

white/red

5-7'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea paniculata 'Pink Diamond'

Panicle

white to rose

8-10'

late summer

sun

Hydrangea paniculata 'Tardiva'

Panicle

white

8-10'

late summer

sun

Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alice'

Panicle

white

8-10'

spring

sun to shade

Hydrangea quercifolia 'Pee Wee'

Panicle 

white

3-4'

spring 

part shade

Hydrangea serrata 'Blue Billow'

Lacecap

blue

3-4'

spring

part shade

Hydrangea serrata 'Grayswood'

Lacecap

white to mauve

5-6'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea serrata 'Preziosa'

Mophead

white to mauve

4-5'

summer

part shade

Hydrangea serrata 'Wilsons 7820'

Lacecap

pink to blue

3-4'

spring

part shade