Dirr's hydrangea breeding program shortly produced another reblooming mop head, Blushing Bride, which blooms white and matures to a pale pink. That was in 2007.

At a quick glance, you might mistake Hydrangea serrata, the mountain hydrangea, for a scaled-down macrophylla — the classic big-leaf hydrangea — but with lacecap-style flowers.

The most common species, especially in older gardens like the Inverness Library garden, is Hydrangea macrophylla, a large-leaved shrub with white, pink, red or blue large, rounded flowers.

As we head into the second half of May, one of the upcoming blooming plants is our beautiful hydrangeas, specifically the hydrangea macrophylla or “mophead” variety. The abundant 2024 blooms ...

Blousy mop-head or delicate lace-cap? There's a hydrangea variety to suit all tastes and gardens, says Marie Staunton They're considered a bit blousy by some, but in my opinion, hydrangea is a ...

If you are looking for drama in the garden, “Merritt’s Beauty” is the shrub for you. In early-to-mid summer, intense, brilliant true-blue to deeply saturated rose-red flowers cover this ...

Tim Wood would like gardeners to think of hydrangeas as more than just mopheads. Those big round flower heads of Hydrangea macrophylla are what most people probably have in mind when they think of … ...

Blue Bird — This is an old school serrata, or mountain hydrangea — they look about the same as the big leaf or “macrophylla” types but are hardier and sport superior fall color.

Peegee hydrangeas (H. paniculata) are as old-fashioned as the mop-heads, with big cones of white flowers. They look great flopping over a fence or grown in a big pot.

We have the macrophylla mop tops common in older gardens, with their big heads of blue or white. These we use more as background but hydrangeas are a large family and there are many more ...

Of the numerous varieties available, one of the loveliest is Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Madame Emile Mouillière’, whose giant, white blooms take on a shade of shell-pink as they age.

The macrophylla or Mop Head hydrangeas are the ones we are most familiar with. They are the ones with the lovely large heads of either blue, pink or white flowers.