Shooting Star Hydrangea
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Shooting star hydrangea. Clay Loamy Sandy. Shooting Star hydrangea is also known as the cultivars Hanabi Fireworks and Fuji Waterfall. I have a Shooting Star Hydrangea and I need to know if it is a hardy perennial that I can plant outside.
The flowers remain white for 4 to 6 weeks. They are wonderful as companion plants with red poinsettias andor holiday greens. As they mature the flowers often develop a greenish hue.
The hydrangea was in a six inch pot and had three or four blooms. The confusion arose because of several look-a-like plants Hanabi Fuji Waterfall Hayes Starburstand Fireworks and due to Trademarked versus Cultivar names. The new Shooting Star lace cap hydrangea enhances seasonal decorations even more.
The performance features weeks of white tinged blue starlets-within-stars shooting from a flurry of central blue Lacecaps. The best you can do is to plant it in a container leave it. There was a debate long ago on the Hydrangea forum about the real cultivar name for Shooting Star.
The shooting star hydrangea Hydrangea macrophylla Shooting Star is a deciduous shrub-like plant that grows 3 to 5 feet tall and blooms in double-petaled star-shaped white flowers. They are a type of big-leaf hydrangea H. Shooting Star is not the same plant as Fuji Waterfall.
Plant in moist but well-drained soil in sun or partial shade. The flower heads are composed of showy double florets dangling from long pedicels and radiating around a central cluster of tiny fertile double flowers. Shooting Star is a Hydrangea macrophylla Big-leaf and is most likely a renaming of H.
Since the name was first published as H. They prefer light shade but can be grown in full sun pro. A very appealing lacecap hydrangeas Hydrangea macrophylla Sumida No Hanabi is a vigorous deciduous shrub laden with large incredibly flat inflorescences up to 10 in.
On Feb 26 2008 yotedog from Raleigh NC wrote. Much to my surprise it is putting up about 6 large new bud clusters in the new side shoots. Shooting Star Hydrangeas are beautiful plants for the holidays.
And unlike most other lace caps its sterile blooms dont sprinkle. This cultivar is considered to be part of Lacecap group of Hydrangea. They feature eye-catching white star-shaped double flowers that turn pale green after a month or two.
Across 22 cm from early to late summer. Instead the customary TM or would be used after the nameShooting Star TM or Shooting Star. I remember doing some research and the name Fuji Waterfall rings a bell.
Hydrangea macrophylla Shooting Star Hydrangea Shooting Star will reach a height of 15m and a spread of 15m after 5-10 years. Shooting Star but this is wrong it is a trade name and no single quotes should be around it. They are wonderful companion plants at Christmas along with your poinsettias or other holiday greens.
One major garden publication marked it as H. The white flowers continue to bloom for 4 to 6 weeks. Our Hydrangea ships in a gray basket that measures 8 wide by 7 tall.
The large dark green leaves form a perfect backdrop to. The star-shaped blossoms. Each of the Shooting Star double flowers are shaped like a bright white star within a star.
Macrophylla hardy in planting zones 7-9 so yes they can be planted outdoors in your areaYou will have to wait until after the last average frost in the spring to plant it outside. I live in Ohio and some winters get very cold. Hi Lace Cap Hydrangea Shooting Star belongs to H.
They have a spectacular lacecap type flower but the outer flowers are double petaled and look like stars. White Shooting Star Hydrangeas Hydrangea macrophylla Shooting Star Enjoy snow white hydrangeas that have been forced for the holidays. City CottageInformal Flower Arranging Beds and borders Low Maintenance Containers.
For more information on growing Hydrangeas click Growing Guide. This is a really pretty shrub the brilliant white star shaped double blooms seem to explode from the plant - hence the name. Bring the garden indoors with a novel Hydrangea coaxed to perform indoors.
When the blooms were dying off I repotted it and put it outside. Shooting star hydrangeas are forced into blossoming and sold during the holiday season much like poinsettia plants. Mac Hanabi Fireworks and is sometimes listed as Sumida no Hanabi Fireworks of Sumida developed as an indoor potted plant for the Florist market.
After that they mature to a pale green. Shooting star hydrangeas Hydrangea macrophylla Hanabi for example are so named for their fireworks-like display of white double flowers shaped like stars. It is hardy to zone 7 O degrees F.
It was in a 6 pot and had 4-5 nice flower clusters. Sumida-no-hanabi this is its actual name. Shooting Star Hydrangea are often sold in containers as an alternative to the Poinsettia during the holiday season.
During the Christmas holidays in 2007 I purchased the shooting star hydrangea at the grocery store because it looked interesting. Each of the Shooting Star double flowers are shaped like a bright white star within a star. After that they mature to a pale green.
I think it cost 1299. They have a spectacular lacecap type flower but the outer flowers are double petaled and look like stars. Each of its double flowers is shaped like a star within a star and holds its white color for four to six weeks before maturing into a greenish hue which lasts another four to six weeks.
