Big Daddy Hydrangea Vs Endless Summer

Oakleaf hydrangea requires rich moist soil and will tolerate damp heavy soil.

Big daddy hydrangea vs endless summer. Its mature height is between 5 and 6 feet. Endless summer hydrangea are known to bloom 10 to 12 weeks longer than average hydrangea macrophylla plants and show well in colder climates since. You remember the hype about endless summer don t you. Many of these varieties offer beautiful fall foliage too and are hardy in zones 5 9.

It generally features serrate obovate to elliptic dark green leaves 4 8 long and large clusters of long blooming summer flowers in either lacecap form flattened flower. Blooms occur on old wood so take care to prune no later than late august if you expect any blooms for the following year. That old and new factor made a big difference. It meant that even if severe winter cold killed the plant and its dormant flower buds to the ground it could still grow the next year and produce flowers.

Series such as endless summer and let s dance offer big colorful mophead or lacecap type blooms every few weeks in summer and fall. Macrophylla big daddy with enormous flower clusters that measure from 12 to 14 inches across this fast growing variety is either pink or blue depending upon soil acidity. Blooming on both old and new growth this reblooming mophead hydrangea flowers in early mid summer on old growth and in midsummer to fall on new growth guaranteeing a long season. Louis area typically grows 3 6 tall and as wide unless damaged by harsh winters or pruned smaller.

From early summer to fall it puts on a show blooming on both old and new wood facilitated by deadheading. Grows to 5 6 tall and wide hydrangea arborescens the smooth hydrangea annabelle is the most well known cultivar of the species. Hydrangea macrophylla commonly called big leaf hydrangea is a deciduous shrub with a rounded habit that in the st. Across 35 cm densely packed with sky blue to pink florets depending on the soil ph.

Noted for its enormous inflorescences hydrangea macrophylla big daddy produces stunning rounded flower heads up to 14 in. Endless summer hydrangeas is a collection of hydrangea macrophylla perennial shrubs that have the unique ability to re bloom throughout the spring and summer months giving more color and visual appeal to your garden for a longer period of time. Here was a hydrangea that bloomed all summer long on both old and new growth.