Hydrangeas are easy to grow shrubs, and include a range of unusual exotic flowering plants, as well as the popular lacecap and mopheads. From delicate white flowers through to warm mauves and striking blues, these stunning plants can change colour depending on your soil. Check out our hardy flowering shrubs if your garden is particularly exposed. For care advice and planting guidance, head over to our hydrangea hub page or find more excellent varieties to grow with your hydrangeas at our shrubs hub page.
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With their fabulous late summer colour and long-lasting flowers, hydrangeas are great value shrubs. They can be grown in difficult spots, such as shade, and are ideal in the dappled light under trees. There are also varieties suitable for growing in a pot.
If you don’t have acid soil and want a blue hydrangea, you can feed it with a product that adds aluminium sulphate to the soil, or put one in a container filled with ericaceous compost.
Hydrangeas prefer fertile, moist but well-drained soil and you will need acid soil to stop blue flowers turning pink. Some varieties are more tolerant of lighter soils and all will benefit from a good mulch of organic matter in spring.
Hydrangeas are best grown in light shade although they will tolerate full sun as long as the ground doesn’t dry out.
There are compact varieties such as ‘Little Lime’ or ‘Bobo’ that are ideal for growing in a pot to brighten up your patio. Just remember to water them regularly.
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