Hydrangea Serrata Tiara
Strong stems with coarse colorful leaves make it a stunning addition to your shady garden.
Hydrangea serrata tiara. For the best blue blooms plant in acid soil and encorporate hydrangea colourant. Blue billow is very free flowering in filtered shade or wooded areas. Long tapered leaves take on a purple hue as summer continues. It s loved partly for its compact 4 foot tall and 4 foot wide habit but even more for its abundant rows of blue flowers with mauve eyes.
Hydrangea serrata tiara supplied as pink more view. Hydrangea serrata tiara a small and compact lacecap with reddish purplish foliage. Little pruning required just simply thin out old stems and remove the dead flowers to a pair of plump green buds in late spring. The hydrangea aptly named for its regal beauty small serrata with a ring of flowers very much resembling a tiara.
It is one of the hardiest and compact growing of the serratas with fantastic fall color. Genus hydrangea can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs or self clinging climbers with flowers in clusters usually comprising both small fertile and more showy sterile flowers. Native of the mountains of japan and part of south korea were it grows in mountainous woodland. Serrata hydrangeas at a glance.
The garden gets exciting with this hydrangea and its large light blue lacecap heads on long stems. Other common names hydrangea tiara. Hydrangea serrata tiara hydrangea tiara will reach a height of 1m and a spread of 1 5m after 5 10 years. Produces beautiful lace cap heads of pink sterile flowers surrounding deeper pink fertile ones from june.
Suitable for full sun or part shade conditions and the flower colour will vary with soil type. It is also more hardy. Macrophylla except it is a smaller more compact shrub with smaller flowers and leaves. Tiara is a favorite of mine and i m not alone.
Flowers are pale blue fading to pink on our neutral soil and are freely produced. Soft pink or blue flowers adorn the plant. I can t keep it stocked in the nursery. Plant in moist but well drained soil in sun or partial shade.
Hydrangea serrata tiara is a small compact bushy deciduous shrub with light green leaves turning red purple in the sun. Often good autumn colour. City cottage informal flower arranging beds and borders low maintenance containers.