[94] Mountain Hydrangea Blue
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.
[65] Mountain Hydrangea Blue . The flowers on this very hardy shrub may shift to purple or blue in acidic soils. Great blooms and the bees go crazy for it. Bluish pink lacecap flower clusters in alkaline soil becoming more blue in acid soil.
Blue hydrangea blue hydrangeas from the bigleaf family are only blue because of the soil they are grown in. Peegee hydrangea while often trained to look like a tree the peegee p g is technically the grandiflora cultivar from the panicle hydrangea family. In acidic soils the central flowers will be a deep blue and the outer ones a paler shade of blue.
Mountain hydrangeas hydrangea serrata are native to the same areas of japan as big leaf hydrangea hydrangea macrophylla. The flower buds of mophead hydrangeas can be sensitive to the cold and therefore may not survive the winter months. Hydrangea serrata grow in zones 5 to 9.
Amacha is used in japan to celebrate buddha s birth. Mophead hydrangeas are the most recognizable and popular hydrangea due to their large puffy flower heads. 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.
Can t say enough about this outstanding little shrub. The leaves are dark green and serrated like other macrophylla. Blue bird hydrangea serrata blue bird.
Reminiscent of the bigleaf hydrangea hydrangea macrophylla it is however more refined in habit and its flowers and leaves are smaller. The leaves are commonly used in tea as they contain a natural sweetener phyllodulcin. Mountain hydrangeas are typically smaller and more compact than other mophead hydrangeas.
This is easily one of my favourites. The tea is known as sugukcha in korea and amacha in japan. You can purchase a blue hydrangea and find it blooms a different color next year.
Their flowers can be purple blue or pink and they thrive in hardiness zone 6. 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. Tall and wide at maturity partial to full sun 4 hours required.
Borne in great quantity the elegant blossoms of some cultivars have the. 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. Tiny tuff stuff hydrangea serrata makd uspp 24 842 can 5 125.
However big leaf hydrangeas grow along the mild coast while mountain hydrangeas grow up in the mountains. I planted 3 in 2018 and bought 3 more this past summer.