Re: OT - new hydrangea plant

Doug,  Three years ago I bought from a local nursery a Hydrangea macrophylla
"All Summer Beauty" which also bloomed on new wood.  I no longer have it
because of deer, but I wonder if it is the same now being sold as 'Endless
Summer'.  If so, it's been around for a while.
Merri Morgan
zone 5b, WV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Green" <flowers@simplegiftsfarm.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: OT - new hydrangea plant


>
> It is a bit of a stretch to suggest a Hydrangea macrophylla is a
herbaceous
> perennial, but I thought some of you in colder climates would be
interested
> in the new H macrophylla 'Bailmer' being sold as Endless Summer.  It will
> not be available in garden centers until spring 2004 but I have a small
> cutting sitting in on my kitchen windowsill right now courtesy of the
> propagator at the MANTS trade show.  If I could insert a huge smiley face
> at this point, I would.  :-)  I tell you about it to whet your appetite
and
> to let you know its coming.
>
>   Normally, Hydrangea macrophylla bloom on old wood and the buds are not
> reliably winter hardy in my zone 4 garden; the leaves are fine but the
blue
> flowers never appear from the dead buds.  Endless Summer blooms on both
old
> and new wood in its first year in the garden so if a hard winter kills the
> old buds, I still get flowers from the new ones produced this coming
> spring.  The plant was discovered in Minnesota in a similar zone 4 garden
> so it looks like I'll get both the old and new blooms.
>
> I'm really excited about this so I thought I'd share the delight with
> you.  Mind you, y'all have to wait for another season before you can find
> one.  I'll tell you how it blooms this spring. :-)
>
> There's also a whole bunch of new perennials coming your way this spring -
> from the double Echinacea 'Razzmataz' to yet another new crop of
> wonderfully coloured Lobelia.  I picked up the big Darwin catalog while at
> the show (Darwin is a producer of cuttings for larger nurseries and they
> introduce a lot of new plants to the trade) and the catalogue is truly
> plant pornography. :-)
>
> The only part of the show that was a pain in the anatomy was having to
> drive home through Cheryl's Pocono Mountains in yet again another snow
storm.
>
> Doug
> Doug Green,
> Award-winning garden writer
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