Hydrangea

Last year I had to replace two of my Hydrangea Mariesii Perfecta's.
I bought two at a specialist nursery, and all seem to be fine, untill....they came into bloom.
One looks different from the other. Here is the real Mariesii

and here's her sister



Does anyone has a clue which hydrangea this may be?
I've been thinking about Bouquet Rose, but I'm not sure. Her stems are a bit wobbly.

 

One is a lace cap the other not. To tell you the exact name have not got a clue, they are inventing more every year with new names. I barely remember the names of my 13 varieties I have.

 

Thank you redstar.
Yes, it is outrageous how many new names they come up with every year.
Oh well, no matter her origine, she can stay. The color is right anyway.
I named her Bertha

 

For my garden needs I prefer getting several types that bloom different times of the year and have different leaf shapes.

 

I suppose your garden is a large one? I can imagine how you must enjoy all the different beauties.
In my case it was important to create a kind of uniformity because of the size of the garden, which is 6 by 6 meters. Never the less, there grow 15 hydrangea's on this small space.

 

That is a right proud amount of hydrangea's to have in your garden. Sorry, not sure what meters is. I have 2 1/2 acre property, only 13 types of hydranges presently.
We have several gardensssss. Lots of slides and moves on youtube. Suprised you have not run cross my toots about my gardens already on this forum. Look up redstar's gardens here. There is a general link to the you tube to find my gardens also. Estherredstar channel. Enjoy.

By the way, one of my favorite hydrangeas is a non-colored one---it is a creamy colored lace cap, the top part of the leaves are velvety green and the bottom part of the leaves are snow white. When the wind blows it gives a wonderful flicker look. The plant itself has also a nice shape to it.

Do you have an Oak leaf Hydrangea, they are pretty, and you can extract babies very easy from it without any rooting powder worry. I made three from my one already. and they are doing well.

Also, as a bit of information: Last year my husband and I traveled to the New England states, we did a day visit at Martha's Vinyard---I was totally blown away by their hydranges, which were in bloom at that time. The shubs were so very happy. We had stayed for one night on the edge of Martha's Vinyard in a B&B. In the morning the sea mist covered the island for a long time. Hense I figured the shrubs just are so happy from that delicate falling droplets of water.

 

2 1/2 acres is about 1 hectare, which is 10,000 sq.m. - so about 100 metres square.

A metre is a "really generous yard" (although you guys across the pond seem to prefer feet to yards - I see & hear "100 feet" or "1,000 feet" mentioned, and I have no concept of feet in those quantities! whereas 30 yards, or 300 yards is something I can judge ...)

1 metre = 1 yard plus-about-10% or 3 feet plus-about-10%


I was very taken with the woodland Hydrangea walk at East Ruston Old Vicarage (had a look at my photos but I'm afraid I did close ups of the flower-varieties I fancied, and didn't take any to capture the actual walk itself :( I'll go back this Summer and try to remember to take some

It was an area of woodland they planted 20 years ago, or so, and they have been steadily thinning it to get the right balance of light shade, and I'm going to create something based on it but I'm going about it the other way round and plan to plant Hydrangeas at the same time as some fast growing, thin-canopy trees (I have Eucalyptus in mind, and probably some Birch or similar), and in anticipation I've been nicking cuttings, for the last couple of years, wherever I have seen a Hydrangea I fancy, and the handful I bought I have taken a half-to-a-dozen cuttings off each, so should have enough plants to plant up the new area this Autumn.

Anyone tried Hydrangea arborescens "Incrediball"? The flowers look vast, and supposedly the plant's stems are stout enough to support them, even after a downpour ... time will tell.

 

I have Hydrangea arborescens annibelle. Had to look up the name on google to get a picture to remind me. One nice thing about it, is it is so very hardy. And I did make two babies from it.