25+ 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.

Mountain hydrangea blue. Blue bird hydrangea serrata blue bird. The flower buds of mophead hydrangeas can be sensitive to the cold and therefore may not survive the winter months. Mountain hydrangeas are typically smaller and more compact than other mophead hydrangeas. 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. Tiny tuff stuff hydrangea serrata makd uspp 24 842 can 5 125. I planted 3 in 2018 and bought 3 more this past summer. The tea is known as sugukcha in korea and amacha in japan.

The leaves are commonly used in tea as they contain a natural sweetener phyllodulcin. The flowers on this very hardy shrub may shift to purple or blue in acidic soils. Mophead hydrangeas are the most recognizable and popular hydrangea due to their large puffy flower heads. This is easily one of my favourites. Bluish pink lacecap flower clusters in alkaline soil becoming more blue in acid soil. Tall and wide at maturity partial to full sun 4 hours required. Blue hydrangea blue hydrangeas from the bigleaf family are only blue because of the soil they are grown in.

The leaves are dark green and serrated like other macrophylla. Coarsely toothed dark green 8 inch long leaves turn reddish bronze in fall. 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. In neutral or more alkaline soils the blue will change into an attractive lavender pink. Reminiscent of the bigleaf hydrangea hydrangea macrophylla it is however more refined in habit and its flowers and leaves are smaller. Peegee hydrangea while often trained to look like a tree the peegee p g is technically the grandiflora cultivar from the panicle hydrangea family. Hydrangea serrata grow in zones 5 to 9.

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. In acidic soils the central flowers will be a deep blue and the outer ones a paler shade of blue. Amacha is used in japan to celebrate buddha s birth. Borne in great quantity the elegant blossoms of some cultivars have the. Their flowers can be purple blue or pink and they thrive in hardiness zone 6. Can t say enough about this outstanding little shrub. You can purchase a blue hydrangea and find it blooms a different color next year.

Great blooms and the bees go crazy for it.