Red Hydrangea Varieties

All hydrangea varieties hydrangeas offer varied and extravagant blooms throughout summer and into fall when many shrubs have completed their show.

Red hydrangea varieties. Also called french hydrangeas florist s hydrangeas hortensia. A superb flowering shrub to use as a showy accent or specimen or for perennial borders in semi shaded areas. Choose from easy to grow hydrangeas including popular lacecap and mopheads as well as unusual and exotic flowering plants from delicate white flowers through to warm mauves and striking blues these stunning plants can change colour depending on your soil. They recommend the royal red and lady in red varieties of hydrangea for adding a shot of crimson to your garden. There are 3 different types of hydrangea macrophylla. The shrubs are happy in full sun to part shade and at 2 1 2 tall they re compact enough to grow in containers. Red hydrangea varieties the majority of red varieties comes from the family of bigleaf or french hydrangeas.

In containers or in the ground few plants give gardeners the same bang for their buck as the hydrangea. The red blossoms open in a vibrant red hue and fade to purple tones. Desired for its abundance of splendid vibrant red violet large mophead flower clusters and handsome glossy green foliage on a boldly branched mounded form. Blue hydrangea blue hydrangeas from the bigleaf family are only blue because of the soil they are grown in. This is a repeat blooming red hydrangea that blends red flowers with burgundy red stems. Like limelight the blooms start a pale green then develop into a deep red in. If your favorite hydrangea is not a bigleaf but instead the popular panicle hydrangea like limelight you can get the same look with dwarf hydrangea plants such as little lime hydrangea paniculata little lime.

The plant is hardy in zone 4 to 9. They come in enticing shades of white cream pink blue and purple and in lacecap and oakleaf shapes as well as the familiar mophead. Lacecap oak leaf and large leafed hydrangeas bring diverse texture and form to the summer landscape. This is the most common type of hydrangea found in the united states. Peegee hydrangea while often trained to look like a tree the peegee p g is technically the grandiflora cultivar from the panicle hydrangea family. Forever ever red hydrangea forms a tidy shrub 2 to 3 feet tall and wide. Mophead lacecap and mountain hydrangeas.

Summer crush goes on sale in the spring of 2019. It s easy to fall in love with new summer crush a reblooming hydrangea with flowers that range from raspberry red to neon purple. Gardeners who crave colors from the cool side of the color wheel including pink purple white and blue will delight in the mix of hydrangea hues that are available sometimes even on a. Other dwarf hydrangea varieties.