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Hydrangeas – Beyond the Mop Head
16.06.2023 - 04:37 / blog.theenduringgardener.com
Hydrangeas – Beyond the Mop HeadI recently had the great pleasure of spending three hours walking round the garden of the 82 year old hydrangea expert and breeder, Maurice Foster. Despite the fact the temperature had plummeted from 28º the previous day, to 13º – and it was pouring with rain throughout – I loved every moment and came away determined to grow more hydrangeas – especially those of the non-mop-head species. Inspired by him I took a closer look at the hydrangeas in my own garden and at Wisley.
I am anti mop-heads, far from it. I have several in my garden, include the best white, Madame Moulliere and the wonderful Ayesha with its lilac-like flowers. Mop-heads, more correctly known as H.macrophylla are those that fill coastal gardens (like mine) with their blowsy, billowy blooms. They can look magnificent in shades of purple and blue or candy-floss pink (depending on the soil’s acidity) as well as purest white, but quite often they are neither one thing nor the other – a bit pink, a bit blue, a bit unimpressive, so it is definitely worth seeking out good cultivars with stable colours. Quite often the ‘poor doers’ started life as indoor pot plants. Grown soft and fast in glasshouses, they need to be deadheaded, fed and hardened off before planting outdoors, or they will never amount to much.
Lacecaps are similar in size and habit to the mopheads, but have less ‘blobby’ flowerheads with lacy centres, surrounded by larger florets often in a slightly different colour. The Teller series are very reliable, well-coloured lace-caps. Bred in Switzerland, several cultivars are available from Ashwood Nurseries – with their original German bird names – including Nachtigall, Faisan and Blaumeise and more widely and
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