Pink Hydrangea Bush

Original hydrangea plant with pink and blue flowers model 10530 29 09 box 29 09.

Pink hydrangea bush. The edges are finely toothed in some varieties. 1 800 home depot 1 800 466 3337 customer service. How doers get more done need help. They are smaller thinner and rougher than leaves of the mophead hydrangea typically 3 6 long and 3 4 wide.

If your hydrangeas are pink because your soil is alkaline and you want them to be blue you need to make the soil acidic by increasing the presence of aluminum. Butterfly bush sky pencil holly hydrangea shrubs bushes flowering shrub shrubs bushes purple leaf plum hedge angel trumpet bush. You can purchase a blue hydrangea and find it blooms a different color next year. Who can forget the ever changing blooms of hydrangeas changing blue in acidic soil pink in that with more lime and reminiscent of those science class projects using litmus paper.

If the soil naturally contains aluminum one must try to keep it away from the hydrangea s system. The presence of aluminum in the plant ultimately determines the color and ph affects the uptake of aluminum. These are the most cold hardy hydrangea and can grow from zones 3 to 7. Following are a few tricks that might work.

Gardeners who crave colors from the cool side of the color wheel including pink purple white and blue will delight in the mix of hydrangea hues that are available sometimes even on a single shrub. You can achieve this by adding amendments to you your soil like pine needles compost coffee grounds and aluminum sulfate that help make the soil acidic over time. Endless summer endless summer 1 gal. Hydrangea macrophylla bits of lace is a lacecap variety with large white star shape florets blushed with pink.

And then of course the white hydrangeas with blooms resembling large snowballs that as children would often amaze us. Hydrangeas may produce pink blue or lavender blooms depending on where it s planted and how it s fed. For hydrangea blooms to be pink the plants must not take up aluminum from the soil. Pink hydrangea pink hydrangeas range from hot pinks to barely blushing and can be found in several different types.

It also bears dark green foliage and grows 5 feet tall and wide. With immense flower heads hydrangeas flaunt an old fashioned charm that is hard to resist. Please call us at. Hydrangeas are best planted in moist rich soil.

Add dolomitic lime several times a year. These are large blooms typically start white and may turn to pink.