Re: Hydrangea

At 12:57 PM 1/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:

In a message dated 1/14/03 9:05:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,
flowers@simplegiftsfarm.com writes:


Ceres - seems to be different. Hydrangea macrophylla  'All Summer Beauty'
is listed as zone 5 by Monrovia Nursery while the 'Bailmer' is listed as
zone 4 although there may be other sources out there that disagree with
ASB's zone rating as 5.  'Bailmer' is taller and wider.  As far as I can
figure out from the net - 'ASB' mostly blooms on new wood and there is a
recommendation on at least one site to cut it to the ground every
fall.  'Bailmer' blooms on both new and old wood.  Again, this is from a
brief survey and not talking to any experienced woody guy.
I've just returned from yet another trade show and had a chance to talk to one of the source nurseries. 'Bailmer' is the first hydrangea to bloom on *both* old *and* new wood. Others bloom on either but not both. The plant has been grown in Minnesota for approx 10 years and is considered quite hardy as well as bud-hardy.

So - with any luck at all, I'll have a hardy blue flowering hydrangea in my garden this summer. (Its sitting quite comfortably in its new pot in a sunny south-facing windowsill dreaming of spring) :-)

Doug
Doug Green
Author of the award winning "Gardening Wisdom"
See gardening articles at http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com

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