Mountain Hydrangea Blue
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Mountain hydrangea blue. The leaves are commonly used in tea as they contain a natural sweetener phyllodulcin. This is easily one of my favourites. Bluish pink lacecap flower clusters in alkaline soil becoming more blue in acid soil. In acidic soils the central flowers will be a deep blue and the outer ones a paler shade of blue.
Can t say enough about this outstanding little shrub. Mophead hydrangeas are the most recognizable and popular hydrangea due to their large puffy flower heads. The tea is known as sugukcha in korea and amacha in japan. Coarsely toothed dark green 8 inch long leaves turn reddish bronze in fall.
Growing tiny tuff stuff mountain hydrangeas the exact color of the flowers varies with your soil as it does with almost all varieties of hydrangea. The flower buds of mophead hydrangeas can be sensitive to the cold and therefore may not survive the winter months. However big leaf hydrangeas grow along the mild coast while mountain hydrangeas grow up in the mountains. In neutral or more alkaline soils the blue will change into an attractive lavender pink.
As a result they have naturally developed flower buds that are more tolerant to cold conditions than big leaf hydrangeas so they bloom more reliably in usda zones. Native to japan and korea hydrangea serrata mountain hydrangea is a deciduous shrub of rounded habit with delicate lacecap flowers with flattened clusters from early to late summer. Mountain hydrangeas hydrangea serrata are native to the same areas of japan as big leaf hydrangea hydrangea macrophylla. Reminiscent of the bigleaf hydrangea hydrangea macrophylla it is however more refined in habit and its flowers and leaves are smaller.
Peegee hydrangea while often trained to look like a tree the peegee p g is technically the grandiflora cultivar from the panicle hydrangea family. Hydrangea serrata grow in zones 5 to 9. Tuff stuff reblooming mountain hydrangea from proven winners produces lacy pink flowers that create a mass of color in early summer continuing right up until frost. I planted 3 in 2018 and bought 3 more this past summer.
Blue bird hydrangea serrata blue bird. The flowers on this very hardy shrub may shift to purple or blue in acidic soils. Amacha is used in japan to celebrate buddha s birth. You can purchase a blue hydrangea and find it blooms a different color next year.
Great blooms and the bees go crazy for it. It shares the showy blooms and beautiful pink or purple color of big leaf hydrangeas but because it grows wild on the chilly mountain tops instead of the mild seaside it naturally developed substantially better cold tolerance. Tall and wide at maturity partial to full sun 4 hours required. Borne in great quantity the elegant blossoms of some cultivars have the.
The leaves are dark green and serrated like other macrophylla.