Hydrangea Care
Everything you need to know about hydrangeas in clear and concise language. Hydrangeas are deciduous shrubs or small trees. They are grown for their beautiful domed or flattened flowers which appear in mid-summer for a month. The flowers normally ... [... more]
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Taking summer cuttings
How to take cuttings of your favourite shrubs so you'll have new stock ready for autumn planting. In summer you can cut lengths of healthy growth from many shrubs, such as philadelphus, hydrangeas and forsythias and root them in small pots filled ... [... more]
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How to make hydrangea cuttings
An easy plant to propagate from stem cuttings is the hydrangea. You can take cuttings from the plants to produce new plants. One of the easier plants to propagate is a hydrangea from stem cuttings. At the end of the summer you can take cutting ... [... more]
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Viburnum macrocephalum
This hardy, vigorous shrub is ideal for a woodland garden or a large shrub border. The Chinese snowball produces large blousy flowers in late-spring. These start off green but gradually turn the purest white, like small hydrangea heads. It's a ... [... more]
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Soils for colour
Hydrangeas have large blooms that bring flamboyant colour to the garden in late summer and autumn. They're easy to grow, dependable and improve with age. Use them in big, bold groups in the border, or even in large containers. Mophead hydrangeas ... [... more]
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Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'
The basics species of this large bushy North American shrub has flowers that are a mixture of tiny fertile florets and the larger more showy sterile ones, which in fact have coloured bracts in place of petals. The variety 'Annabelle' has only ... [... more]
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Hydrangea aspera Villosa Group
This is a large or medium-size shrub, sometimes a small tree, from China and Tibet. It is characterised by the large flattened flower heads on arching stems in late summer and autumn, each 15cm (6in) head comprising a mixture of tiny fertile blue ... [... more]
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Hydrangea paniculata 'Unique'
The basic species, H. paniculata, is a large or medium-size shrub, sometimes a small tree, from China and Japan. It is characterised by the large cone-shaped flower heads it bares on arching stems in late summer and autumn, each head comprising a ... [... more]
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Hydrangea macrophylla 'Renate Steiniger'
Find out how to grow Hydrangea macrophylla 'Renate Steiniger' This hydrangea is one of the best blue, flowering varieties in mid-and late summer, with the flowers nicely set against the shiny green leaves. The soil chemistry affects most ... [... more]
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Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris
Climbing hydrangea is a useful low-maintenance climber for a shady or north wall, also thriving in sunnier sites in moist soils (the flowers do not last quite as well in a sunny spot). Plants are slow to get going, and often make little new ... [... more]
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Hydrangea
This hydrangea is a large or medium-size shrub, sometimes a small tree, from China and Japan. It is characterised by the large cone-shaped flower heads it bares on arching stems in late summer and autumn, each head comprising a mixture of tiny ... [... more]
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Hydrangea aspera subsp. sargentiana
Most hydrangeas grown in British gardens have glossy dark green leaves and large flower-heads. This hydrangea, however, has dull green leaves with bristly hairs on top and a grey down underneath. Its huge flowers appear from late summer to ... [... more]
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