Hydrangeas

I would love to start a thread about these plants! I am very fond of them. Some of my babies:
H. macrophylla "Ayesha"

H. quercifolia "Snowflake"

 

We are growing h. quercifolia, h. seemanii and h petiolaris, which are all really nice plants. Im not a fan of the typical 'pom-pom' look, but there are some great varieties out there. I love the first one you have. Very nice

Gaz

 

Can creatures like this be called boring? No, don't answer. To each his own, I guess.

H. macrophylla "Izu no Hana" (in the right soil it's dark indigo):




H. serrata "Shinonome" (it changes colour from green to white to pink back to green)




H. macrophylla "Hanabi" (= Fireworks)

 

You are preaching to the newly converted when it applies to me.

I think even the ones that look like a group of blue rinses grouped together having a natter have their own appeal as well, although I won`t be obtaining any of those "each to their own"


Very elegant

 

I have to grow mop heads at work for display purposes but I prefer Lacecaps.
I presume the plant breeders are busy with this genus as others in trying create as many colours in one plant as they can.

 

Thanks Marley, right now summer here looks like november in Italy, so may be you don't need to see it! :D I hope sun comes back to our address before october!

Many of my favourite hydrangeas are not especially new varieties, but they were selected by japanese breeders, their style is very different. Izu no hana was discovered 30 ys ago, and Ayesha is much older, for example. But its true that much new research is being done in this field. After much neglect they are becoming fashionable again, and that brings mixed results: a vast,and boring, commercial production, and some truly nice new cultivars bred (or imported) in smaller numbers.

This is a lovely recent introduction from the US, H. arborescens "Hayes' Starburst" (utterly true to its name):