£16.00

A stunning hydrangea with huge globes of tightly packed, creamy white flowers resembling giant snowballs. Flowers from July to September. As autumn progresses, the blowsy flowerheads fade to pale lime and the dark green, pointed leaves turn soft yellow. Ideal for using in cut flower displays. Caution: Contact with the foliage may aggrevate skin allergies.

Type

• Shrubs

Award of Garden Merit

Foliage: Deciduous

Hardiness: Hardy

Vigour: Medium growing

Uses

• Beds and borders
• Flower arranging
• Cottage style garden
• Woodland area
• Containers

Special features

• Low maintenance
• Architectural

Care instructions

Grow in moist but well-drained acidic to neutral soil in full sun or partial shade. Although the only essential work is to remove dead wood in spring, these species flower more prolifically when pruned back annually to a framework of branches. Each spring, cut back last year’s stems to a pair of healthy buds to maintain a permanent framework. To produce larger flower panicles on strong, upright branches, hard prune to the lowest pair of healthy buds, creating a low framework of branches. This usually results in a pruned framework of no more than 25cm (10in) high but, if more height is required, cut to about 60cm (2ft) tall.

Dimensions

Size: Large

Pot size: 3 litre

Eventual height: 250cm

Eventual spread: 250cm

Positions

• Light shade
• Sun

Aspects

• South
• East
• West
• North

Soil types

• Sandy
• Normal
• Clay

Soil pH ranges

• Acid
• Neutral

Special conditions

• Coastal