Blackberry Pie Hydrangea Plants

Blackberry Pie: Hydrangea Flair & Flavours Range. 5 Litre Pots

These delicious colours look good enough to eat, with the red-tinged, purple flowers over dark green leaves. Blooms for almost half the year. To 1m. Fabulous for containers.

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Features

• Red-purple flowers with light green-yellow centre
• Dark green leaves
• Type: Lace cap
• Blooms June - October
• Height x Spread: 1m x 1m
• Low maintenance
• Ideal for shady patios
• Delivered in 5 Litre pots

Growing Blackberry Pie Hydrangeas

The Flair & Flavours range are tough, small shrubs that do well in containers. As Reblooming Hydrangeas, they flower on new and old wood. These hardy Hydrangeas prefer cool and moist conditions, so an element of shade and shelter are preferable: too much sun and wind tends to damage the foliage. Generally they prefer morning to afternoon sun.

They require rich, well-drained soil that has been improved with plenty of compost which will help hold the moisture and nutrients that hydrangeas love. Prune out older wood on mature plants in Autumn or late Winter to make way for new growth.

The soil pH can affect the availability of aluminium in the soil, which affects the colour of the flowers. Acidic soil, which is high in available aluminium, turns flowers blue, and lime or alkaline conditions turn them pink (by making the aluminium unavailable).

In Your Garden Design

Mix with green tinged or white climbing Hydrangea petiolaris to conjure up an image of blackberry and apple pie. Add in a Phlox Créme Brûlée, a Strawberry Candy daylily, a Rhododendron Wine And Roses, plus a penstemon apple blossom and, hey presto, you have a recipe for a wonderful candy-coloured visual (though not edible) confection of floral delights which you can name grandly as your pudding or dessert garden.

Did You Know?

The sensational National Collection of Hydrangeas is in South Ayrshire at Lagg House, overlooking a dramatic Scottish seascape with excellent wind shelter provided by grand sycamore trees.
Anne Greenall, the owner, was given a potted hydrangea as a present, and she planted it in her garden when it had finished flowering. It did so well in the cool, moist Scottish climate that she planted another and another until she had some 150 varieties - they look best in high Summer, during August.