Do you want Stunning clusters of blooms in your garden? Check out the Most Beautiful Types of Hydrangeas that you grow for that!
If you want flowers that stand out in a bunch in your yard, then we have the Most Beautiful Types of Hydrangeas for you that you must grow!
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Most Beautiful Types of Hydrangeas
1. Eldorado
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Eldorado’
USDA Zones: 6-9
Spice up your garden with this small, medium-sized shrub with red blooms. This hydrangea flowers in acidic or neutral soil during fall.
2. Cityline Mars
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Cityline Mars’
USDA Zones: 5-9
This compact shrub can be a perfect addition to your patio garden. It features many hues on the same bush. It grows up to 1-3 feet tall and does best in dappled light.
3. Blue Deckle
Botanical Name: Hydrangea serrata ‘Blue Deckle’
USDA Zones: 6-9
This late-flowering shrub blooms profusely in July and August and more in fall. The gorgeous red and purple leaves can beat any fall foliage display.
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4. Madame Emile Mouillere
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Madame Emile Mouillere’
USDA Zones: 5-9
This hardy hydrangea displays white blossoms that fade to pale, dusky pink or ethereal blue when summer upgrades. It reaches up to 4-6 feet tall.
5. Abetwo
Botanical Name: Hydrangea arborescens ‘Abetwo’
USDA Zones: 3-9
This beautiful variety offers densely packed 8-12-inch blooms on sturdy stems. It grows up to 4-5 feet tall.
6. Unique
Botanical Name: Hydrangea paniculata ‘Unique’
USDA Zones: 3-8
If you want a plant that looks like a living bouquet, do not miss this one. It grows large flowers in dense clusters, which makes it stand apart from the rest of the varieties.
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7. Gatsby Star
Botanical Name: Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Gatsby Star’
USDA Zones: 5-9
It shows off fragrant clusters of star-shaped double blooms. This low-maintenance hydrangea variety needs no pruning. It grows up to 5-8 feet tall and wide.
8. Gatsby Pink
Botanical Name: Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Gatsby Pink’
USDA Zones: 5-9
The flowers open in a white hue and become pink gradually. Its leaves display a vivid red hue in fall. It grows up to 6-8 feet tall.
9. Climbing Hydrangea
Botanical Name: Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris
USDA Zones: 4-9
Climbing hydrangea is a sprawling, deciduous, woody vine that displays large white flower heads and dark green shiny leaves with exfoliating bark.
10. Zinfin Doll
Botanical Name: Hydrangea paniculata ‘Zinfin Doll’
USDA Zones: 3-8
Native to China and Japan, ‘Zinfin Doll’ offers strawberry and cream-hued flowers that lure butterflies the entire summer. The full blooms are densely packed together.
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11. You & Me Together
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘You & Me Together’
USDA Zones: 6-9
It has a double-flowered form that offers a more dense bloom head than the usual bigleaf macrophylla types.
12. Limelight
Botanical Name: Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’
USDA Zones: 3-9
‘Limelight’ features chartreuse flowers that age to mellow pink as the season upgrades. For best growth, use acidic soil and ensure it gets plenty of sunlight.
13. Miss Saori
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Miss Saori’
USDA Zones: 5-9
This hydrangea was launched at London’s 2014 Chelsea Flower Show, where it was announced as the Chelsea Plant of the Year.
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14. Nikko Blue
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Nikko Blue’
USDA Zones: 6-11
‘Nikko Blue’ exhibits intense blue flowers in June that continue for two months. It needs winter protection in USDA Zone 5 as blooms are produced on the buds formed on last year’s stems.
15. Endless Summer
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Endless Summer’
USDA Zones: 4-9
This fourth introduction in the series offers deep purple or rose blooms on 3-4 feet tall plants. It flowers on both new and old wood.
16. Velvet Lace
Botanical Name: Hydrangea villosa ‘Velvet Lace’
USDA Zones: 5
This hydrangea variety displays long, lance-shaped green leaves with soft hairy coverings in late summer, small, blue-purple blooms in the center, and large pale mauve-pink florets.
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17. Let’s Dance Diva
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Let’s Dance Diva’
USDA Zones: 5-9
This dwarf reblooming variety tops at 2-3 feet and displays big pink or blue flowers in partial to full sun. Use slightly acidic soil for the best growth.
18. Let’s Dance Big Easy
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Let’s Dance Big Easy’
USDA Zones: 5-9
This hydrangea offers vivid mop-head blooms that turn pink-green to pink and green again.
19. Let’s Dance Moonlight
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Let’s Dance Moonlight’
USDA Zones: 5-9
‘Let’s Dance ‘Moonlight’ charms all year long and produces vibrant, mop-head flowers during summer and continues over fall when it flaunts a beautiful fall foliage hue.
20. Let’s Dance Rhapsody Blue
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Let’s Dance Rhapsody Blue’
USDA Zones: 5-9
It offers pink or blue blossoms depending on the soil’s pH. To ensure the flowers grow in clusters, allow them to get plenty of dappled light.
