Plant: Penny Mac - Hydrangea
Hydrangea · Hydrangea macrophylla 'Penny Mac'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A bigleaf hydrangea cultivar forming an erect, multi stemmed, rounded shrub of coarse texture with lustrous medium to dark green toothed leaves. Rounded or umbrella shaped flower clusters appear in summer and are good for cutting and drying. Clemson notes that bigleaf hydrangea flowers are blue in acidic soil at pH 5.0 to 5.5 and pink where the pH is 6.0 and up. It prefers partial shade with morning sun and afternoon shade in moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter, watered deeply about once a week.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 6 ft tall and 6 ft wide
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-11
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A bigleaf hydrangea cultivar forming an erect, multi stemmed, rounded shrub of coarse texture with lustrous medium to dark green toothed leaves. Rounded or umbrella shaped flower clusters appear in summer and are good for cutting and drying. Clemson notes that bigleaf hydrangea flowers are blue in acidic soil at pH 5.0 to 5.5 and pink where the pH is 6.0 and up. It prefers partial shade with morning sun and afternoon shade in moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter, watered deeply about once a week.
- Foliage
- Opposite, simple, stalked, toothed and sometimes lobed leaves, lustrous medium to dark green above, with a stout petiole about one inch long.
- Fruit
- A cup like capsule.
- Bark & stems
- Tan colored bark with large leaf scars; stems emerge from the ground and rarely branch.
- Light
- Morning Sun, Dappled/Filtered Light
- Pruning
- Bigleaf hydrangea blooms on old wood, so remove dead canes or rejuvenate an older plant immediately after flowering and avoid pruning after August 1 so that flower buds are not removed.
- Native range
- Japan, China, Korea and Southeast Asia
