Hydrangea Big Blue Flowers
Cornflowers are annuals with ruffled bright blue blooms that attract bees and butterflies.
Hydrangea big blue flowers. Pink hydrangea pink hydrangeas range from hot pinks to barely blushing and can be found in several different types. How to get blue hydrangeas 1. Hydrangeas are excellent for a range of garden sites from group plantings to shrub borders to containers. You can purchase a blue hydrangea and find it blooms a different color next year.
Choose the right kind of hydrangea. If its flowers are round and white treat it as a new wood blooming hydrangea. The mophead hydrangeas and the lacecap hydrangeas. Look for hydrangeas that are bred to be blue such as nikko blue endless summer the.
Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 5. This deciduous shrub enjoys a rounded habit large bold leaves and attractive clusters of long blooming summer flowers. Hydrangeas is our specialty at oregon coastal flowers. Modern selections come in enticing shades of white cream pink blue and red and in lacecap and oakleaf shapes as well as the familiar mophead.
But on the oregon coast our colors are brilliant blue purple lavender antique green limelight etc. Blue hydrangea blue hydrangeas from the bigleaf family are only blue because of the soil they are grown in. The bigleaf hydrangea hydrangea macrophylla is named for its big broad leaves and the shrub itself is no shrinking violet. Native to japan hydrangea macrophylla big leaf hydrangea is one of the most popular hydrangeas in our gardens.
The species is divided into two groups. Get your bigleaf hydrangeas to turn clear sky blue by increasing the acidity of the soil. Globe thistle echinops ritro. Measure the soil ph.
Warmer summer temperatures seem to wash out the color of hydrangeas. Finally if the plant has large conical flowers which are often white but may also be green or pink you can treat it as new wood blooming hydrangea. A big sky blue hydrangea flower is absolutely breathtaking. Named after its globe like shape this perennial had prickly green leaves with round.
Because of our mild climate on the oregon coast our hydrangea blooms are bigger in size and more vivid in color. Colors beguile with clear blue vibrant pink frosty white lavender and rose blossoms sometimes all blooming on the same plant. 41 types of blue flowers cornflower centaurea cyanus. Adding soil sulfur is one way to do this.