Plant: Ellen Huff - Hydrangea
Hydrangea · Hydrangea quercifolia 'Ellen Huff'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Ellen Huff is an oakleaf hydrangea grown for unusually large, deeply lobed oak like leaves, up to about 12 inches long, that turn red, orange and burgundy in fall. Big white panicles roughly 8 to 12 inches long open in early to mid summer and age slowly to soft pink and tan, and the older branches exfoliate to show cinnamon coloured bark for winter. It forms a broad, upright rounded shrub around 5 to 8 feet tall and 6 to 10 feet wide, takes full sun to part shade on rich, well drained soil, and suits a woodland edge, a shaded border or a mass planting.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 8 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
Ellen Huff is an oakleaf hydrangea grown for unusually large, deeply lobed oak like leaves, up to about 12 inches long, that turn red, orange and burgundy in fall. Big white panicles roughly 8 to 12 inches long open in early to mid summer and age slowly to soft pink and tan, and the older branches exfoliate to show cinnamon coloured bark for winter. It forms a broad, upright rounded shrub around 5 to 8 feet tall and 6 to 10 feet wide, takes full sun to part shade on rich, well drained soil, and suits a woodland edge, a shaded border or a mass planting.
- Flowers
- Large showy panicles of white flowers, roughly 8 to 12 inches long, open in early to mid summer and age to soft pink or tan.
- Foliage
- Large, deeply lobed, oak like leaves up to about 12 inches long that turn red, orange and burgundy in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Exfoliating branches with brown papery bark revealing cinnamon coloured bark underneath.
- Native range
- Southeastern USA
