(Free) Shooting Star Hydrangea Pink
An excellent summer color item in mixed borders.
Shooting star hydrangea pink. For more information on growing hydrangeas click growing guide. Why are there no more details. Monitor shooting star hydrangeas for common disease problems such as leaf spot disease. This plant is listed in the rhs plant finder book. Best grown in lightly shaded garden or naturalized area. Each of its double flowers is shaped like a star within a star and holds its white color for four to six weeks before maturing into a greenish hue which lasts another four to six weeks. Join the rhs.
Fall transplanting is best but early spring planting is also fine. And unlike most other lace caps its sterile blooms don t sprinkle pollen onto the furniture or floor below. Shooting star is by far the longest lasting of all lace cap hydrangea varieties and suitable for the outdoors in many regions. Hydrangeas turn blue in acid soil and pink in alkaline soil. Find help information on hydrangea macrophylla shooting star pbr l from the rhs search. Listed in the rhs plant finder. Bring the garden indoors with a novel hydrangea coaxed to perform indoors.
At present our information about. Our hydrangea ships in a gray basket that measures 8 wide by 7 tall. In yet another triumph of hope over experience i picked up a lovely shooting star hydrangea at the grocery store earlier this summer. The performance features weeks of white tinged blue starlets within stars shooting from a flurry of central blue lacecaps. Loving care was. Look for the darkly hued spots caused by the fungal disease cercospora leaf spot which typically appear on. The delicate nodding blooms of white to pink petals seem to fly upward and away from the pointed red and yellow flower center resembling a shooting star.
The new shooting star lace cap hydrangea enhances seasonal decorations even more. Line your front steps with pots of bright blue hydrangeas for a cheery welcome. Shooting star is a hydrangea macrophylla big leaf and is most likely a renaming of h. A spring blooming prairie ephemeral dodecatheon meadia goes completely dormant in late summer. Hydrangea macrophylla shooting star pbr l join the rhs today and get 12 months for the price of 9. The distinctive black stems provide interest in the garden before the summer flowers open. To change your hydrangea s color to blue add 1 2 cup of garden sulfur to the soil and to turn them pink add garden lime.
It had an alluring big head of mixed sterile and fertile flowers with plump star shaped blooms shooting in all directions from the main flowerheads. Large bright lace cap flowers emerge pink and white and mature to hot pink atop black satin stems. Pink purple green.