Variegated Blue Hydrangea

Cage the hydrangea in severe winter areas. Wrap the stakes with garden mesh and fill the cage loosely with clean straw.

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Variegated blue hydrangea

Make a ring of stakes around the hydrangea 2 inches taller than the plant. Makes a good complement for fern dells and a great solution for the shade under trees. Varigated hydrangea plant care.

The variegated hydrangea is another cottage garden favorite characterized instead by a center cluster of small pink or blue lacecap flower clusters encircled. Ideal for borders accent or mass plantings where it will add a splash of bold color to shady landscapes. Variegated hydrangeas have green leaves with white marbling or margins.

Provide winter protection for your variegated hydrangea since they are less cold hardy than some varieties. Produces lovely early summer blooms with rounded clusters of pinkish white flowers. Favorite variegated cultivars include quadricolor maculata.

A handsome variegated shrub with bright green foliage surrounded by white margins. Hydrangeas conjure up images of an old fashioned garden with their delicate lacy blooms of pink blue purple or white. Design ideas a romantic lacecap hydrangea that makes excellent border background with the added bonus of gentian blue flowers when planted in acidic soils.

Hydrangea macrophylla mariesii variegata bigleaf lacecap hydrangea has variegated leaves that look as if someone had taken a fine paintbrush and made a few white streaks on each green leaf. These woody shrubs native to asia come in many cultivars. The central tiny fertile florets are a deep gentian blue and the large sterile petals surrounding the lacecap are a ghostly pale blue.

Limelight Hydrangeas In Bloom