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Plant: Summer Crush - Hydrangea
Hydrangea · Hydrangea macrophylla 'Summer Crush'
Size: 3 gal
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Mature size
More about this plant
Summer Crush is the most compact of the Endless Summer reblooming hydrangeas, an upright, tidy rounded shrub only 18 to 36 inches tall and wide that still carries full sized heads in raspberry red or neon purple. It reblooms through the season, is hardy in zones 4 to 9, and prefers morning sun with afternoon shade and medium to high moisture. Prune after flowering in summer to encourage more bloom. The small footprint makes it a good choice for containers, patio beds, low borders and cutting.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 3 ft tall and 3 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Summer Crush is the most compact of the Endless Summer reblooming hydrangeas, an upright, tidy rounded shrub only 18 to 36 inches tall and wide that still carries full sized heads in raspberry red or neon purple. It reblooms through the season, is hardy in zones 4 to 9, and prefers morning sun with afternoon shade and medium to high moisture. Prune after flowering in summer to encourage more bloom. The small footprint makes it a good choice for containers, patio beds, low borders and cutting.
- Flowers
- Big raspberry red or neon purple heads carried on a compact plant, reblooming through the season.
- Foliage
- Simple, opposite, obovate to broadly ovate leaves 4 to 8 inches long with a short pointed tip and coarsely serrate margins, glossy and somewhat fleshy.
- Fruit
- A cup-like capsule that matures in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Bark light brown to tan with large leaf scars; stems emerge from the ground and rarely branch.
- Light
- Morning Sun
- Pruning
- Prune after flowering in summer to encourage additional blooms.
- Native range
- Japan, China, Korea and Southeast Asia
