RE: Cotinus & Hydrangea

Claire,  I stool my Cotinus coggygria 'Atropurpurea' every winter because I
grow it in a pot on my deck.  The burgundy foliage is outstanding, but it
loses the red color in the shade and reverts to green.  I think Hydrangea
paniculata 'Brussels Lace' is the prettiest hydrangea flower I've ever seen.
I wonder if it would grow in mostly sun without burning?  Marilyn

Not a perennial but treated as one is hydrangea paniculata. There are around
a dozen forms in the market, some approaching the lacecap types. The idea
here is that they bloom very late in the summer.  You can "stool" the shrub
yearly and have a flowring plant around three feet high (zone 4). I first
saw
this done in the UK with this PG hydrangea and cotinus.  Both can stand this
treatment and both will do fine in semi- shade to all shade.   I have a PG
about five or six years old and I prune it back to three inches every spring
- it is forming flower buds just now.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4


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