Show me your hydrangeas

edhelka

Let's have a hydrangea photos thread. I want to get more of them and could use some inspiration.

All types welcome. Do you have paniculatas planted in perennial borders? Sophisticated lacecaps in shrub borders? Showy mopheads as feature shrubs in your front garden? Post it all. Climbers and unusual types too.
If your hydrangeas aren't flowering yet, photos from previous years are welcome too.
Please include the name of the variety if you know it and roughly the acidity of your soil (where relevant).

Athelas

A great idea for a thread @edhelka!

I only have one — an oak-leaved hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia), in clay soil in a west-facing border. The leaves turn a lovely purple-red in autumn.

Photos today (July 2022)

Autumn foliage (November 2019)

Tack

I have 4 types

This is a cutting of a cutting from the bright blue lacecap centrepiece at my son's christening 30 years ago. I'm glad I took this photo for this thread, it needs watering and feeding.Lovely to see Athelas' oak leaf above. I look forward to this Hydrangea Quercifolia 'Snow Queen' showing me autumn colour this year as it was new last autumn and didn't then.

My grandmother had this one but I haven't got a name

I removed this very Aspera Villosa reluctantly (photo August2020) but only when I was convinced this now 5 year old cutting was happy. It should flower for the first time soon, I'll need to give it more space for next year.

Fran IOM

I love hydrangeas and have one bed solely for them with two other bushes in another bed which I inherited. I was looking at them this morning and thought I would start a thread purely for hydrangeas but you have beaten me to it @edhelka! Funnily enough daughter took a pic of one of them.

Will look for others from last year if I can find any but otherwise once they have all flowered I can get further pics later. 

Terryann

I have three of these, unsure of the names

Papi Jo

Fran IOM said:

Lovely flowers! Which Hydrangea species & cultivar are they?

Fran IOM

@Papi Jo  You set me a task there! Have looked through my receipts and have come up with Saxon Red and that particular one "Saxon Macrophylla "Saxon Grafin Cosel".
Seems to match with what I have googled as well. Was planted out just over a year ago and was a bargain at half price just under £7 at a local garden centre. 

Marlorena

I only have 3, they call came from Signature Hydrangeas..
'Freudenstein'.. an old one that's probably seen in a lot of places.  In Spring I nearly got rid of it as it looked so pooly from frost damage, but look how it's recovered..  growing in a 10 ltr pot, due to be planted later..



..this lacecap 'Libelle' I like very much and grows in a shady corner..



'Magical Colourdream' has burnished copper foliage in Spring, turning dark green later.. 

edhelka

Thanks everyone, keep them coming.

@Athelas I like quercifolias, wouldn't mind having one for the autumn colour.
@Tack A nice selection of different types.
@Fran IOM That's a stunner.
@Terryann I like the last one.
@Marlorena Very nice as everything in your garden. 

My hydrangeas aren't flowering yet. I have one inherited in the front garden, only just starting. I bought three more late last year from Signature Hydrangea, two macraphyllas are in temporary pots, to be planted later this year. Not yet flowering but getting there.
The third one is paniculata 'Little Spooky' planted in a wrong spot, needs moving.

Here is the front garden one today, will post again when it is in full bloom.

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Here are our Annabelle and Lime Rickey. Unfortunately heads are a bit floppy now