Garden hydrangea: the most common plant varieties

Garden hydrangea - a large shrub with amazingly beautiful and varied flowers. In ornamental gardening, this shrub is highly valued not only for its wide range of colors and shapes of inflorescences, beautiful curly leaves and extremely abundant flowering, but also for its ease of planting and ease of care.

Garden hydrangea has a huge variety of varieties, of which the most popular is the variety with large spherical inflorescences. Large-leaved hydrangea was brought from Japan to European countries not so long ago - in the middle of the 18th century - and immediately created a sensation among flower growers of that time. Initially, this plant was very heat-loving and grown exclusively at home. However, intensive selection of large-leaved hydrangea soon began: many new varieties were developed that were distinguished by frost resistance and were suitable for growing in open ground.

No less common is a plant variety such as paniculata hydrangea, whose white-cream flowers are collected in large pyramidal inflorescences. Its distinctive feature is the change in the color of the flowers: initially being white, by autumn they acquire a fairly intense pinkish tint. The tree hydrangea is distinguished by its truly enormous size (both of the bush itself and of the inflorescences and leaves), which vaguely resembles the viburnum variety Snow Globe.It has even more impressive dimensions Sargent's hydrangea, the height of which often exceeds four meters, and when opening at the end of summer reaches an amazing thirty centimeters in diameter.