Limelight Hydrangea Shrubs

The limelight offers pastel hues of pink green and blue giving way to white blooms later in the season. The limelight hydrangea shrub delivers season after season.

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Limelight hydrangea shrubs

Huge football shaped flowers open in an elegant celadon green that looks fresh and clean in summer s heat. Limelight hydrangea shrub is an exciting new hardy hydrangea from holland. If your favorite hydrangea is not a bigleaf but instead the popular panicle hydrangea like limelight you can get the same look with dwarf hydrangea plants such as little lime hydrangea paniculata little lime.

Limelight is a paniculata or panicle type hydrangea hydrangea paniculata limelight that s prized for a variety of reasons. Limelight has giant 10 flower heads of shamrock green that begin in mid summer and continue thru fall where they turn pink in cooler temperatures. Limelight hydrangea hydrangea paniculata limelight lives up to its name as its show stopping elongated midsummer flower clusters open lime green brighten to white and assume hints of rich.

The blooms age to an array of pink red and burgundy which persists through frost for months. To prune the limelight hydrangea. First it blooms later than most hydrangeas beginning in midsummer.

The myth the legend the plant. To fertilize apply a slow release or controlled release. Growing up to 6 feet tall they make the perfect long blooming hedge plant for driveways fence lines and as a bonus you get cut flowers that last for over 12 days.

The limelight hydrangea hydrangea paniculata limelight is a cultivated variety of the panicle hydrangea type which is a large hydrangea shrub or small tree that grows 10 to 20 feet tall and wide. The hydrangea limelight has unique bright green blooms in mid summer that holds it s bright and refreshing color right into early fall when the blooms change color to a rich deep pink. Huge colorful blooms on a small shrub for any space.

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