Hydrangea serrata 'Kuro hime'

Hydrangea serrata 'Kuro hime'

Height
about 120 cm

Leaf
ovate to lanceolate

Flowering time
June-July

Flower head
medium sized lacecap

Hydrangea serrata 'Kuro hime'
One of the most beautiful of all the Japanese shrubs; it really deserves its name which means "Black Princess". Cultivated in acid soil, it will produce flower heads of an unbelievable blue carried by very dark branches. The flowers are small, rounded lace-caps, the sterile flowers frames the fertile flowers, both of the same incredible blue shade. Forms a compact shrub with light green leaves carried by mahogany colour branches and petioles. About 1,20 meters. Some shade