Plant: Let's Dance Lovable® Bigleaf Hydrangea

Plant description

A reblooming bigleaf hydrangea 3 to 4 feet tall and wide that produces hundreds of flowers from both old and new wood for sustained colour from spring through summer. Flower colour is pink, purple or blue depending on soil chemistry, and the green foliage carries burgundy fall interest. Proven Winners notes its disease resistance and easy maintenance, recommends part sun to sun with a minimum of four hours, moist well drained soil and average water, and says it may be trimmed after early summer flowering. It suits borders, mass plantings and containers, and is good for cut and dried flowers.

Flowers

Hundreds of flowers produced from both old and new wood, pink, purple or blue depending on soil chemistry and on whether aluminum sulfate or acidifying amendments are added.

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.

Pruning

Blooms on both old and new wood and may be trimmed after early summer flowering.

Native range

Japan, China, Korea and Southeast Asia

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