Hydrangea - Hydrangea
Hydrangeaceae
Our Hydrangea
The summer-blooming hydrangeas bridge a noticeable gap in blooming of your garden over the year. It is distinguished by its idiosyncratic appearance and unusual blossom shapes. Furthermore, it requires acidic-humic, fresh, or moist soils.
Blooming: Hydrangea wild species and its derived forms have plate-shaped inflorescence. Its outer sterile marginal blossoms appear very large and particularly coloured, while its inner, fertile flowers are smaller and of another colour. Each of blossom types does its work: the outer ones attract insects, and the inner ones develop seeds. As a result of cultivation, rather inconspicuous inner blossoms turned into magnificent marginal ones. So, the flat inflorescences changed into ball-shaped, densely packed blossom panicles.
Species and variety overview
Plate-shaped inflorescences
(inflorescence in two parts, fertile and sterile flowers)
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Bela'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Bodensee'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Bouquet Rose'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Endless Summer' - Blau
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Endless Summer The Bride'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Forever & Ever Blau'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Forever & Ever Pink'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Madame E. Mouillère'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Masja'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nymphe’'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Renate Steininger'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Rojojo' (= 'Forever & Ever White')
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Schneeball'
- Hydrangea macrophylla 'Soeur Thérèse'
- Hydrangea petiolaris
- Hydrangea sargentiana
- Hydrangea serrata 'Bluebird'
- Hydrangea serrata 'Preziosa'
- Hydrangea serrata 'Rosalba'
Ball-shaped flowers
(inflorescences only with sterile flowers)
- Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'
- Hydrangea macrophylla in varieties
- Hydrangea sargentiana in varieties
Conical flower panicles
- Hydrangea paniculata 'Bobo'
- Hydrangea paniculata 'Early Sensation'
- Hydrangea paniculata 'Grandiflora'
- Hydrangea paniculata 'Kyushu'
- Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight'
- Hydrangea paniculata 'Little Lime'
- Hydrangea paniculata 'Unique'
- Hydrangea paniculata 'Vanilla Fraise'
- Hydrangea quercifolia
- Hydrangea quercifolia 'Snow Queen'