Blushing Bride Endless Summer Hydrangea Foliage Color

Blushing Bride Endless Summer Hydrangea Foliage ColorThere is something quietly theatrical about a white hydrangea that refuses to stay white. Blushing Bride opens each flower cycle in pure, crisp white large, rounded mophead clusters up to 6 inches across, densely packed with semi double florets then gradually shifts to soft pink or cool blue as the blooms age, depending on soil pH. The result at any given moment during the season is a shrub carrying both freshly opened snowy flowers and maturing

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Strong stems keep the flowers upright after wind or rain

At maturity

we find that Zig Zag™ does well in both full sun and partial sun

For extended seasonal interest

and deer tend to leave it alone—a welcome trait for gardeners battling browse pressure

Like most other redbuds

The tree does best with 2-4 inches of organic mulch

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making it an ideal choice for the middle of a sunny perennial border or along a garden edge where its vivid color can be fully appreciated

Thanks to it's cool blue and green coloration

and other seed-eating songbirds frequent the plants