Popular Panicle Hydrangeas this Season

What’s been the most popular flowering shrub this year is probably the paniculata hydrangea, either Lavalamp Flare, or Bobo. Bobo is really small, three feet by three feet. Flare is a pink and white two-tone flower that dries red. It also stays about three feet by three feet. They’re both really compact, and as far as hydrangea grows, it’s the lowest maintenance variety.

Actually, hydrangea paniculata, which are all the ones with the cone-shaped flowers, or all the paniculata have a cone or a dome-shaped flower, those are our tree and shrub of the week this week. So we’re featuring them on Facebook and a bunch of other places.

Flare is a dwarf pinky-winky. A pinky-winky gets six foot by six foot, which is really too big to use a lot of times, especially on a ranch home in front of the house where Lavalamp Flare stays really compact. It has basically the exact same flower style as pinky-winky.

It’s just that the stature of the plant stays much smaller. So there’s way less trimming involved.

In front of the nursery, I have to send you a picture here once the show’s over. We planted over a hundred little lime punch all the way across the front of a nursery at Portage. And they open up pure white and then they’re going to develop this raspberry color to the bloom and the longer it stays on the stalks. So it’s a really beautiful plant and it’s going to add a ton of foliage. And we just planted them last fall and we had a pretty tough winter. So every one of them came back, all hundred of them. So it’s going to be a real pretty picture along the front of the nursery as that color develops as we get further and further into summer and fall.

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