Variety of gorgeous white picotee purple hydrangea?
Just saw this gorgeous white picotee purple hydrangea.
Does anyone have any ideas on which variety it could possibly be?
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Comments (18)Can't say that I have seen them advertised. Worse, they will probably change names sometimes. European ones may also start in the US with small companies whose budgets are not on the order of the big wholesalers so keep searching every 3-6 months. Purples probably do best in acidic and low phosphorus conditions. May be easier to buy any of the previously mentioned ones if you want a purple as the shade of purple may differ (from the pictures) if your soil's acidic level is much different from the ones given to those plants in the pics. Would be nice if they said what soil pH they had the pictured plants in... then you could try growing in pots to better align pH and phosphorus levels. Which is always incredibly, if not impossibly, difficult! :o)...See MoreHydrangeas - best variety of dwarf paniculata?
Comments (26)'Carol Mackie' is officially going on my list. :-) We love fragrant plants, its the first thing I look for. I can never have enough of them. I love mums. I usually only cut back once and they stay at a pretty good height. I find if I cut them too late, they don't bloom early enough to enjoy them. They are very long lived in my garden. Regardless of weather over the winter, they usually have new basal foliage going into the winter. I usually leave the dead foliage until spring, just to give them more protection. Seems a pretty low effort way of helping them get thru the winter. I really enjoyed mine this fall. And I had a white one in the back that was just doing very little in not enough sun, so I divided it into three and added those to the full sun bed out front. I wasn't sure I would enjoy white with the other more muted fall color mums, but I seem to have managed to get them in lucky positions where they really shined. Not by plan. [g] They were small this season but next year, they should be much bigger. Like everything else in that bed. [g] Wow that's a lot of blooms on Endless Summer. I have never had that many on mine. I will try your suggestion for pruning in the spring. I think I may have been doing that any way. I get a lot of die back for some reason and I cut back to buds that appear alive. What direction are your neighbor's ES facing? Sun/shade? I wonder if it could be that, or like everything else, it might just be all the Maple tree roots sucking all the moisture out of the ground around my property....See Moreophoenix
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoYou're welcome! I'll report back with Diva results somewhere at some points as well (will be blooming on thick new canes soon).
Here's Firefly in the landscape. It's a bit darker than MS and the flowers are extremely rigid (aka Sun and droop resistant). Flowers are not as doubled but definitely somewhat.
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoBeen very happy with Tivoli. Quite compact and strong growing with heavy flower potential. Works best as a purple or reddish lavendar, but can go blue too. The one we planted this summer from Lowes had blue/purple and deep lavendar heads on it at the same time. So purple is well within it's pH shift range. Very nice substance to the flower heads and long lasting. Good cutflower use.
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoHorcos (aka Firefly) was mentioned. Also like this picotee. Past prime flowers do neat things on this compact grower.
Ours came from Furney's in Seatac, WA.
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoBeen looking into picotee plants like Peppermint. Commercial photo below for it. I prefer more distint markings.
Thus, I'm personally more impressed with Red Ace's.
Miss Saori, a red edged picotee, also can get dark tones in the leaves with enough light.
Hovaria had a nice single flowered variety called Ripple listed in the past, but I can't find it in the USA.
Here's a Internet photo showing Tivoli as a purple and Red Ace compared. Bavaria, the blue in the photo, I cant find in the USA.
Peppermint can be a pink, purple or blue. Here's a blue internet photo.
Again I'll try to hold out gor the more distint Bavaria. Bet it can be adjusted to a great purple!
Based on US availability and flower markings Miss Saori, Tivoli and Red Ace are either on my yard now or wish list.
garyz8bpnw
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoI do like softer picotee's too ... Double Delights Freedom is a nice one. Nice shading pattern that changes with time (darkens). Double flowers in dense displays.
Double Delights Wedding Ring is a good bet for a graceful purple picotee. One's I've seen are in soft tones.
garyz8bpnw
7 years agoAwhile back Wayside Gardens sold some if the Halo Series hydrangeas from Japan. Angel Song was one that reminds me of yours.
These tend to have Angel or Frau as part of the name. Some of the series have lightly or heavily frilled flowers.
We have Angel Lace also known as Frau Reiko. The photo below are for last years flowers. It can also be grown as a deep purple or cobalt blue, all equally striking with that heavy frilled white edge. The colors are saturated and markings distinct. In the closeup, one can see the purple potential.
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoMore lightly frilled Fran Mariko = Angel Wings from the series can be a nice violet purple.
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoI feel like it's Christmas just seeing all these thx!
By the way don't overlook trying to take Florist gift plants into the garden, especially if you live in zone 6 or higher.
All the photos below are a macrophylla 'New Wine' that I got in gift plant section of a nursery. They were past prime 70% off! It is grown and patented by Bay City Flowers CA. Deepest purple, wine red to deep red. I'm testing for colbalt blue potential now. And it shifts into amazing antique complex effects when ages. High substance florets, 2-3" across on big full heads. Edges sometimes frill out and neat little eye in center of different colors. All the photos below from this year.
All on same plant in 6" pot below.
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoThe 'New Wine' hydrangea past prime flower colors continue to develop for us in the house. They further illustrate the antique flower color range potential!
This is the same one base stem plant with 5 flower heads above a couple weeks later.
Been keeping it on a 58 F night temp, 70 F day temp lighted plant area for the last couple weeks. No browning zones just interesting biocolor petal effects developing over time. Basically green subtones are brushing into the petal margins.
In the end, anticipate a green wonder, more along the lines of this internet photo that I found.
ophoenix