COUNTRY GARDENS Hydrangea Catalog

Hydrangea macrophylla subsp. macrophylla (garden type Hortensias)

• 'ALTONA'
  Moderately tall, stout growth, large head, serrated sepals, vivid deep blue with feeding in acid soil to Rose Madder in chalk. Attractive autumn flower tints. AM 1957 Mid season flowering, favors shady position.

• 'AMETHYST'
  Double serrated-sepalled amethyst-shot Flax Blue or pink flowers in small heads produced with unusal freedom from August until frost. Shoots stout but moderate height, leaves very thick, deep green.

• 'AMI PASQUIER'
  Wine-purple or pink, color does not fade. Crimson in alkaline soil, dwarf to moderate growth. AM 1953

• 'AYESHA' (Silver Slipper)
  Lilac like heads, faint but distinct fragrance in grayish-lilac or pink florets. AM 1974

• 'BLUE DANUBE'
  Deep metalic blue flowers. Compact growth to 3 feet, with dark green foliage.

• 'BLUE PRINCE'
  (Blauer Prinz) Purplish mid-blue in acid aluminum soil, rose-red in alkaline soil. Successive mid-season bloomer. Moderate height.

• 'BOTTSTEIN'
  Red to purple depending on the soil acidity. Dark green foliage.

• 'DOMOTOI'
  Attractive irregular double pale blue or pink heads mid-season to fall. Growth vigorous but not tall.

• 'EUROPA'
  Vivid pale blue, pink in alkaline soil. Blooms mid-season to late with large heads. Tall very vigorous. Good fall color.

• 'GARTEN-BAUDIREKTOR KUHNERT'
  Vivid French Blue or pink, mid-season. Moderate to strong growth.

• 'GENERAL VICOMTESSE DE VIBRAYE'
  One of the purest among the lighter blues, tall slender growth, large overcrowded heads, very free flowering. AM 1947. Light shade. Dries green in shade or rosy blue with autumn sun.

• 'GERTRUDE GLAHN'
  Blue, Purple to deep pink, moderate growth, nice firm heads. Mid-season to late, lasts well.

• 'GOLIATH'
  Purplish-blue or deep pink, large flowers, large corymbs, vigorous and tall, mid-season. One of the finest for seaside gardens. Good for dried flower heads.

• 'HAMBURG'
  Massive growth and fine foliage, flowers mid-season to late, purplish or deep blue to deep pink, boldly serrated sepals: lasts unusually long as the flowers show attractive autumn red color. Prefers a sheltered, light shady position.

• 'HEINRICH SEIDEL'
  Fringed purple to cherry-crimson in alkaline soil in a slightly overcrowded head. Growth stiff and moderate to tall. Free flowering when matured. Mid season.

• 'HOLSTEIN'
  Sky blue or pink in chalk soil, moderate, slender growth,shapely individual flowers with serrated sepals. Very free flowering, prefers light shade.

• 'HORNLI'
  1952 Swiss introduction named after a mountain east of Zurich. Dense inflorescens 11-13 cm wide. which are relatively large compared to heighth of plant. Rarely taller than 40 cm. and can spread twice its height. Sterile florets oval-acuminate, 4 - 5, clearly separate. Flower heads turn greyish pink and crimsom in autumn. A pretty and unusual plant, essential for enthusiasts.

• 'KLUIS SUPERBA'
  A compact Hortensia, deep blue or deep pink, or violet. Free flowering, stouter than "Foch". Prefers sheltered, shady position.

• 'LA FRANCE'
  Mid-blue to Phlox pink,Massive heads, slightly serrated sepals.Tall growth, free flowering when mature . Mid-season.

• 'LA MARNE'
  A tall massive grower and late flowering, pale blue or pink. Very large heads with serrated sepals.

• 'MADAME E. MOUILLERE'
  White with blue or pink eye, tall growth, vigorous, serrated sepals, the best white Hortensia. More long lasting with light shade . AM l9l0

• 'MADAME FAUSTIN TRAVOUILLON' (Peacock)
  Vivid mid -blue or crimson-pink, vigorous and fairly free flowering, early and late, does not spoil in sun unless wet.

• 'MANDSCHURICA' (Nigra)
  Blue or pink flowers, an old variety with black stems. Mid-season. FCC l895 .

• 'MARECHAL FOCH'
  Vivid deep, Gentian blue or rich fose-pink, very free flowering . AM l923. Moderate to tall growth.

• 'MATILDA GUTGES'
  One of the truly violet flower. Sepals are sharply dentate. Dwarf habit (1.2 meters) with excellent fall color.

• 'MISS BELGIUM'
  Rosy-crimson, Mid season, dwarf to Moderate growth. Free flowering.

• 'MOUSSELINE'
  Pale spectrum blue or pale pink. Flowers early and fairly continuously, and remarkably freely, lasting well; tall, stoutgrowth, particularly good outdoors with light shade or even in full sun. One of the best light blue out door Hortensias, very hardy with good autumn color.

• 'NIEDERSACHEN'
  The name refers to the beautiful region, Lower Saxony. Readily blues in acid soil or pale pink in alkaline soil, tall growth, late, likes shade. AM l968.

• 'NIKKO BLUE'
  Good consistant lavender blue hortensia, small compact infloresecense carried on tall, supple stems.The four sepals of the sterile florets are well-spaced, and always entire . Once established, the plant produces many new branches and dependable quantities of flowers. Early flowering, and thrives best in slightly shaded position.

• 'PARZIVAL'
  Rose Madder to crimson-pink or purple to deep blue, numerous small heads, serrated sepals. Flowers last well in the shade and tint attractively in autumn. Moderate growth. AM l922.

• 'PIAMINIA'
  Large pink (bight carmine red) flowers on slightly irregularflattened hemispheres, 0-12 cm wide with denticulate sepals of different sizes, on dwarf plant 2/3 to 1 M.. Small growing hydrangea with small leaves.

• 'SOUVENIR DU PRESIDENT DOUMER'
  Purple, dark blue, or intense dark velvety red drawf habit. An indispensable variety for the favorable garden, blooms mid-season.

• 'TROPHEE'
  Dwarf to midium-sized shrub with medium blue (acid soil) or rich pink flowers (alkaline soil).

Hydrangea Macrophylla normalis (Lace cap)

• 'BEAUTE' VENDOMOISE'
  White flushed pink, moderate growth, many fertile flowers, large sterile florets 11 cm across.

• 'BLAUMIESE'
  Teller Hydrangea from Switzerland. Large plate-like indigo to deep Blue lace cap. Winter protection recommended.

• 'BLUE BILLOW'
  Selection made by Mt. Cuba Research Station from seeds collected in Korean mountains. Blue or pink ray flowers. Bud hardy to 5-10° F

• 'BLUE WAVE'
  Pure gentian blue, lilac to pink in suitable soils. Fertile flowers surrounded by numerous large ray florets. Best in semi-shade. AM l956, FCC l965, Strong rounded bush 2 M. tall or more.

• 'FASAN' (pheasant)
  Teller Hydrangea from Switzerland. Outstanding bright red flowers in neutral Ph soil with fertile florets deep crimson, July 'til frost.

• 'GEOFFREY CHADBUND'
  A lace cap version of Ami Pasquier' type and color. Dark Blue to Red lace cap.

• 'LANARTH WHITE'
  Compact growth with flattened head of bright blue or pink surroounded by a ring of white florets. Revels in full exposure to flowers sun and wind in the most unusual way and will make do with very poor soil. AM 1949 Grows in favorable soils to 1.75 M. high.

• 'LIBELLE'(dove)
  Teller Hydrangea from Switzerland with white plate-like lace cap inflorescence with rounded sepals.

• 'LILACINA'
  Varies in color (in accordance with the acidity of the soil) from a lilac to pure blue or through clear phlox pink. Strong growing plant with large pointed leaves, comparatively small flower-head of unusual lacecap shape, 1-1.5 M.

• 'MARIESII'
  Wide flat corymbs of rosy-pink flowers. Ray florets very large, pink or very rich blue on the same plant. Inflorescence open, mid way between hortensia and lacecap, mid-season, very hardy. FCC 1881, AGM 1938. Introduced from Japan in 1879. Growth tall to 2 M.

• 'MOWE' (sea gull)
  Teller Hydrangea from Switzerland with red-purple plate-like frower heads.

• 'TAUBE' (pigeon)
  Wadenswil, Switzerland 1979 Teller Hydrangea...InfIorescences 17 cm across, mid- pink. Shrub reaches a height of 160 cm. (67 inches)

• 'TRICOLOR'
  Foliage of three distint colors- light green, dark green and white. Flowers white at first turning to pale mauveish pink. Plant is tall to 78 cm.

• 'VEITCHII'
  Flattened corymbs (lace cap), the large sterile outer florets white fading to pink with age, very hardy. Introduced from Japan 1880. Plant height 2 M.

• 'WHITE WAVE'
  Small shrub (5ft.), strong growing clone with flattened head of bluish or pinkish fertile flowers margined with large beautiful formed pearly white ray florets. AM 1948 AGM 1969.

• 'ZAUNKONIG' (wren)
  Teller Hydrangea from Switzerland. InfIorescences 17 cm across deep pink almost fluorescent. Maximum height 1.5 M

Hydrangea involucrata

• H. Involucrata
  The species grows three to six feet tall, has ovate leaves 4 to l0 inches wide. The species is so names beacuse inflorescence is always subtended by a bract. It bears a close resemblance to H. aspera in flower and fruit as well as shape of leaves. The flat inflorescence is lavendar or mauve with many fertile flowers surrounded by the four lobed male flower.

• 'TAMA AZIASI'
  An old japanese garden variety of H. involucrata, leaves orbicular with flat flower- head markedly unsymmetrical and irregular. The ray flowers around the margin have three or four variously-shaped sepals, pale tint of Gentain blue, purplish or pink.

Hydrangea arborescens

• 'ANNABELLE'
  Discovered in the wild near Anna, Illinois by J. C. McDaniel this cultivar has enormous (up to 30 cm across) inflorescences of hortensia type. They contain very few fertile flowers; the pure white sterile florets are large and well-developed. The strong, straight stems keep the shrub looking lovely even when the flower heads are saturated with water. Blooms on new wood.

• 'GRANDIFLORA'
  A cultivar or unknown origin, in cultivation since 1907, whose inflorescences are made up mainly of sterile florets which are very small, but densely clustered together as in the "hortensia" type. Leaves green beneath, glabrous, greenish white inflorescences up to 20 cm wide

Hydrangea panciculata

• 'GRANDIFLORA'
  One of the showiest hardy large shrubs. Massive panicles of sterile florets (some attain l2 inches across and l8 inches high) appearing in summer and autumn, white fading to pink-rose. Excellent winter decoration. FCC 1869, AGM 1969,AM 1907. Introduced from Japan 1867. Fifteen feet to thirty feet high.

Hydrangea macrophylla susp. serrata

• 'BLUE BIRD'
  Small robust shrub with lace-cap arched inflorescens, fertile flowers blue or reddish purple on chalk soil. AM l960, AGM 1969

• 'GRAYSWOOD'
  A Japanese cultivar imported by Mr. Chambers of Grayswood Hill Garden (England) . A large shrub or bush. Corymbs, of the lace-cap type, are broad and well- spaced ; the sterile florets. with long denticulate sepals, change gradually from the purest white to a superb translucent burgundy red at the end of the season, passing though all the shades of orange pink on the way. Starts to bloom in June and does not finish until the first frost.A sunny position is essential in order to obtain the full range of colour.

• 'PREZIOSA'
  A handsome shrub with purplish-red stems. Leaves purplish tinged when young. Attractve globular heads of large rose florets deeping to reddish -purple in the fall. A favorite of Ann Lovejoy. AM 1963, FCC l964, AGM 1973

Hydrangea querifolia (oak leaf)

• H Quercifolia
  Lush grower, stoliniferious, young branches, leaf petioles, inflorenscence densely tomentose or pubescent; leaves oval panicled bouquets with numerous white fertile flowers usually one sterile flower on each panicle, these white, later becoming reddish. Very attractive and quite hardy. Native to Georgia, Florida and Mississippi. Hardy to -l0° F.

• 'HARMONY'
  A supple-stemmed bush with heavy full flower heads that may require some support. Leaves about 15 cm long. Like all the quercifolia species, takes on lovely autumn colors.

• 'SNOW FLAKE'
  Unique oakleaf hydrangea with multiple bracted sterile florets, which gives an apperance of double varigated flowers. Like all the quercifolia species, takes on lovely autumn colors.

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