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‘Endless Summer’ Hydrangea: Does it live up to the hype?

July 3rd, 2007 · 68 Comments

I wanted one
© Endless Summer®The Original ‘Endless Summer’ hydrangea. Photo © Endless Summer®I first learned about ‘Endless Summer’ hydrangea four springs ago and decided instantaneously that I wanted one for my garden, and not just because of those gorgeous blue flowers. My grandma had always had these kind of hydrangeas (H. macrophylla) growing in her garden, and had explained to me that the flower color changed depending on the type of soil it was growing in. I could never grow my grandma’s kind of hydrangea because until ‘Endless Summer’ came along, these shrubs only bloomed on last year’s woody growth, which in my climate would get killed to the ground.

I got one
Last year, I finally got one.

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