It’s a bit more price wise but definitely worth the cost, and it grows in zones 6 – 9, a wide range. For instance, I have mine amidst a shaggy spiraea, purple penstemon, and yellow physocarpus. The leaves are large and textural, offering an excellent architectural structure to contrast with other leaf forms. The flower color glows in afternoon shade, thus brightening the garden. So if you water the heck out of it afterward, you will be successful and the plant’s leaves won’t sag.Ībove is a photo of my perfectly pink hydrangea. Blue flowers in acid soil and pink in neutral to alkaline soil. Produces large double flowers with pink centres edged white in summer on both new and old wood.
Produces large double flowers with pink centres edged white in summer on both. Hydrangea macrophylla Stargazer is a lace-cap hydrangea with green toothed leaves. If you don’t cut anchor roots, you won’t send it into shock. Hydrangea macrophylla Stargazer is a lace-cap hydrangea with green toothed leaves. This cultivar is considered to be re-blooming as it blooms on old wood in the spring and new wood in summer. Each floret has a white picotee edge, adding to the look. The fibrous roots spread out like a pancake around the base enabling you to dig them out easily. Star Gazer Hydrangea How lovely Double pink or blue (depending on your ph) starry florets adorn this lacecap hydrangea in spring and summer. Because they have a fibrous root system, there are few if any anchor roots. They often feature the word star in the cultivar name, such as the Star Gazer and Shooting Star varieties. I’ve transplanted large, medium, and small ones. Hydrangeas are some of the easiest shrubs to transplant. It’s inside what I call my hummingbird, bee, and butterfly garden. I solved that by moving it to a spot more in the center of the border. Whenever I turned on the sprinkler system, the sprinkler head popped up and the spray hit the hydrangea, thus blocking water from all other plants.
In my records, I recorded it as Double Delights ‘Stargazer’ though it’s so packed with flowers, I’m unsure if it truly is that cultivar. Hydrangea macrophylla Double Delights Star Gazer (Kompeito) Globular flowers of rose-pink and white to blue and white, two-coloured florets.
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The blooms can be mopheads (round pom-poms), lace cap (flat and wide), or panicle (triangular).īecause there are a million articles on how to care for hydrangeas, I won’t go into that but spotlight the hydrangea I transplanted. With certain amendments to the soil, colors vary from deep burgundy to lavender to icy blue. There are so many species now that you can grow every flower color and shape. Star Gazer has a nice compact habit reaching 4-5 ft in height and width in 10 years. I weeded for a while and then transplanted my Stargazer hydrangea, a lovely pink shrub with pointed flowers. The double flower and bicolor effect is quite striking summer through fall and is extremely ornamental. This Sunday was sunny and warm, the kind of Sunday where you just want to set up a lounge chair and read a book.