Hydrangea Macrophylla Shooting Star
It can also be seen on hydrangea mail order sites and at nurseries as fuji waterfall used in the garden shooting star will reach 3 to 5 feet in height and can be just as wide.
Hydrangea macrophylla shooting star. A starry cascade of layered sterile florets on long slender pedicels and small round fertile flowers comprises the softly domed white heads each shaped like a unique hybrid between a lace cap and a mop head. The shooting star hydrangea hydrangea macrophylla shooting star is a deciduous shrub like plant that grows 3 to 5 feet tall and blooms in double petaled star shaped white flowers. The performance features weeks of white tinged blue starlets within stars shooting from a flurry of central blue lacecaps. Shooting star is hydrangea macrophylla hanabi a tissue culture firm introduced hanabi as fuji waterfall which is really wrong since there is also a distinctly separate plant that is the serrata form hydrangea serrata fuji no taki which translated means fuji waterfall. For more information on growing hydrangeas click growing guide. Sumida no hanabi translates to fireworks over the sumida river. Our hydrangea ships in a gray basket that measures 8 wide by 7 tall.
Though these lacecaps offer an. Normalis it was named by mr. Hydrangea macrophylla shooting star pbr l rhs plants for pollinators plants this plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects. Shooting star hydrangeas are forced into blossoming and sold during the holiday season much like poinsettia plants. Originating out of japan near yokohama it is a mutant of the hydrangea macrophylla f. Clay loamy sandy. Bring the garden indoors with a novel hydrangea coaxed to perform indoors.
The flowers remain white for 4 to 6 weeks. City cottage informal flower arranging beds and borders low maintenance containers. Hydrangea macrophylla shooting star is properly hydrangea macrophylla hanabi nurseries that grow it for sale as an indoor flowering plant have renamed it. Plant in moist but well drained soil in sun or partial shade. They have a spectacular lacecap type flower but the outer flowers are double petaled and look like stars. Hydrangea macrophylla shooting star at digging dog mail order nursery. Shooting star hydrangeas hydrangea macrophylla hanabi for example are so named for their fireworks like display of white double flowers shaped like stars.