Rough textured foliage is a deep green, providing stark contrast to its pure white, 6″ tall cones of flowers that appear in abundance in late July and transform to a wine red in the autumn. ‘Amethyst’ is compact with a tight form, making it ideal for more formal locations and for smaller landscape spots.

Bring the winter memories of snow and icicles into your summer garden with the large, thick, white and green panicles that drape over this summer shrub, ‘Snowcicle’. Watch as the luscious green and white color ages into a red-wine and burnt-orange color in the fall giving a multi-seasonal display.

This aggressive grower will shine in your landscape every summer as 8-10″ tall pyramids of white flowers explode into bloom in July against the backdrop of deep green foliage. As the flowers age they begin to turn pink so that by September they are a showy ruby-pink color. Add in spectacular burgundy colored fall foliage and you have a plant that screams to be enjoyed each summer and fall!

Regal ivory to mauve blossoms up to 9″ long sit atop deep green oak-like foliage on a rounded, compact, easy to use plant. This selection differs from other Oakleaf Hydrangeas due to its huge blooms that won’t droop, that keep their color longer while flowering and that bloom a little later than most others. Bred from the dependable ‘Snow Queen’ and ‘Pee Wee’ cultivars, ‘Queen of Hearts’ is guaranteed to be easy to grow and stunningly gorgeous.

Like all good Oakleaf Hydrangea, ‘Alice’ is one of those plants whose traits never seem to overwhelm you yet their accumulation leaves you with the deepest admiration of what it brings to your landscape. ‘Alice’ is an aggressive, upright growing selection from Michael Dirr that takes the best of what all Oakleaf Hydrangeas offer and improves it. Its July flowers are huge with arching cones of white bloom that reach up to 14″ in length. These flowers persist atop the plant backed by rough hewn but far more disease resistant foliage for weeks turning pink then beige as time passes putting on an underrated show into the fall. From there, the foliage takes center stage with rich hues of deep scarlet, purple and burgundy to light up the fall. It even puts on a winter show with rich copper to brown exfoliating bark. ‘Alice’ is a plant for all seasons and one that thrives on little care in partial sun spots in the landscape.

Here’s an American Beauties native with classic yet unusual landscape beauty. Unusual because the texture of this plant stands out in sharp contrast to most shrubs its size due to its rough, cinnamon colored branches, its outsized deep green foliage, and its amazing, mammoth summer bloom. When foliated, Oakleaf Hydrangea displays big, palmately toothed, rough, deep green leaves that are a textural masterpiece. In July and August, huge white flowers made up of a pyramidal stack of individual florets up to 12″ tall perch above the foliage in an incredible show that is only topped by a fantastic display of deep burgundy to orange fall foliage color. Oakleaf is a stand out in full sun or partial shade, is terrific individually or in groups, has few insect pests, and even puts on a show in the winter with its branches peeling cinnamon colored bark. Even birds love the protection its branches bring and the nesting material from its persistent dried blooms.

A unique new hardy hydrangea with loads of beautiful, dense blooms that emerge pure white and then turn bright pink from the bottom up. Flowers eventually age to a dark pink-red, and are a nice addition to the early fall landscape. The color pattern is much like that of Pinky Winky® hydrangea, but the panicles are quite full rather than lacy in appearance. Strong stems hold the flowers upright in the garden, and make it an excellent cut flower, too. 

With a commanding presence in the summer and fall garden, White Diamonds® is an exceptional new compact hydrangea with glistening white, upright panicles that eventually fade to lovely parchment and pink colors for dried arrangements. Smaller and more manageable than most H. paniculata, White Diamonds boasts dark green leathery foliage that displays increased heat and drought tolerance. Use as an anchor in the mixed border, plant as a hedge or in a large grouping for a magnificent effect.

The earliest flowering Panicle Hydrangea we’ve seen, leading the race through busy season with creamy blooms atop superior upright form.

A dense spreading form and deep green foliage serves as the backdrop for masses of huge, conical flower heads in late July that are densely packed with small florets creating clouds of white turning pink bloom. Long blooming. Huge, thick blooms are incredible to behold and are perfect for use as a cut or dried flower. Forms a colorful border planting when grouped in the landscape.