Plant: Little Quick Fire® Panicle Hydrangea
Hydrangea · Hydrangea paniculata 'Little Quick Fire'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A dwarf, upright form of the popular Quick Fire panicle hydrangea, holding to roughly 3 to 5 feet tall and wide. It flowers about a month earlier than other hydrangeas, opening white and transforming to pink and red through the summer, and the green foliage turns bronze before dormancy. It blooms on new wood, so it can be trimmed in late winter or early spring and still flower the same season. Give it part sun to sun with at least four to six hours of light and average moisture, and use it in borders, containers, or for fresh and dried cut flowers.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 5 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Blooms in summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A dwarf, upright form of the popular Quick Fire panicle hydrangea, holding to roughly 3 to 5 feet tall and wide. It flowers about a month earlier than other hydrangeas, opening white and transforming to pink and red through the summer, and the green foliage turns bronze before dormancy. It blooms on new wood, so it can be trimmed in late winter or early spring and still flower the same season. Give it part sun to sun with at least four to six hours of light and average moisture, and use it in borders, containers, or for fresh and dried cut flowers.
- Flowers
- White flowers transform to pink then red as summer progresses, opening about a month earlier than other panicle hydrangeas.
- Pruning
- Blooms on new wood. Trim in late winter or early spring and apply a slow release fertilizer in spring.
- Native range
- Eastern and southern China, Japan, Sakhalin, Taiwan and Kuril Island
