Summer Glow is a compact lace cap hydrangea with blue or pink flowers in summer depending on the soil acidity. It’s a lovely hydrangea that suits mixed borders, cottage gardens and containers.
Hydrangea Serrata is native to Japan and Korea’s mountains where it’s a spreading shrub wider than it is tall. In the Far East, it’s called Tea of Heaven or Mountain Hydrangea. The Summer Glow cultivar is bred to keep a nice compact habit that rarely exceeds a metre in height. It has pale-green scored foliage that emerges in early spring and lacecap flowers held above the foliage in the summer. Depending on the soil, the flowers are either blue or pink. Blue flowers grow in acidic soil and alkaline soils produce pink blooms. Neutral soil usually produces a mixture of both shades.
In autumn the foliage turns deep red before falling with the frosts.
This is a neat and compact hydrangea with excellent flowers and interesting spring to summer foliage and good autumn colour.
125 x 100cm.