THE IMPORTED HYDRANGEAS
PANICLE HYDRANGEA
The panicle hydrangea (H. paniculata)is the big guy from Japan and China. It has conical white-creamy flowers and grows up to 25 feet, with gracefully arching branches spreading up to 15 feet. You might have seen it hanging around a Victorian house.
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Pictures: panicle hydrangea lurking in front of the Stamford Historical Society, August 2005
The flowers go white, pinkish, mauve and then wheat-brown. Some say that that flowers tend to look a bit bedraggled and need deadheading but make up your own mind on this. (Me, I’m not dead-heading a 25-foot tall tree, no way.) The panicle hydrangea is said to be a “new wood” bloomer and conceivably could re-bloom after deadheading.