'Strawberry 'n' Cream' Hydrangea Plants

Strawberry'n Cream: Hydrangea Flair & Flavours Range. 5 Litre Pots

Wonderful lace cap flowers in a glorious strawberries and cream, pink and white combination which bloom over dark green leaves for almost half the year.

This hydrangea evokes sunny days and heavenly moments sitting outside sipping champagne and contemplating the joys of the Wimbledon tennis tournament. To 1m.

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Features

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

Growing Strawberry n Cream 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 like it cool and moist, so a bit of shade and shelter are preferable to an open sunny situation that tends to get dry in summer: too much sun and wind tends to damage the foliage.

Rich, well-drained soil that has been improved with plenty of compost will 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

They are a natural companion for Salvia Hot Lips and the purple Penstemon Pensham Czar. Plant alongside a twisting gravel pathway to give a gorgeous country cottage garden feel even in a chic city courtyard setting, or behind a dwarf box hedge to give them a less frilly, more masculine tone. Ideal companion plants for hydrangeas are ferns, hellebores, hostas, azaleas and rhododendrons.

Did You Know?

Holehird Gardens, near Windermere in the Lake District, is a 10-acre site which is home to the Lakeland Garden Society and 200 species and cultivars of hydrangeas suited to the Cumbrian climate. It has a wonderfully colourful hydrangea walk which is one of the first things visitors see when they enter the gardens. The hydrangeas were granted National Collection status in 1989 but that was removed in 2012 after several years of severe flooding and harsh winters. Now the only hydrangeas which are grown are those that thrive in the Lakeland area.