Climbing Hydrangea
Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris
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Specifications
| Plant Characteristics | Cold hardy, Low Maintenance, Flowering, Attracts pollinators, Non-invasive, Disease resistant, Fragrant, Groundcover, Fast-growing, Evergreen |
|---|---|
| Hardiness Zone | 5a to 8b |
| Sunlight | Partial shade, Shade |
| Height | |
| Width | |
| Watering Needs | Moderate |
| Preferred Soil | Peaty |
| Growth Rate | Moderate |
| Growth Habit | Bushy, Climbing, Compact, Spreading |
| Plant Life Cycle | Perennial |
| Blooms In | Spring, Summer |
| Flower Color | White |
| Foliage Color | Green |
| Suitable Space | Outdoors |
| Plant Name | Hydrangea |
| Botanical Name | |
| Species | |
| Class | Magnoliopsida, Cornales |
| Does Not Ship To | AK, HI, ID, MT, PR, UT |
Description
Climbing Hydrangea Vine Fragrant Blooms in Shade
- Slow to Establish, Becoming More Vigorous
- Grows in Shade
- Four Seasons of Interest
- Wonderfully Fragrant Flowers, Green Leaves, Stems
- Large Flat Lacecap Flowers From May Persisting Into Summer
- Lush, Dark Green Summer Foliage Turns Yellow for Fall
- Exfoliating Bark Delivers Winter Interest
- Attracts Butterflies
- Long-Lived and Easy Care
- Blooms Last for Long Bloom Period
- Loves Hot/Humid Conditions
- Grows in Full Shade and Part Sun
- Great Cut Flowers Fresh and Dried
If you have more shade than sun, or just have a few shady spots to decorate, try the easy-care Climbing Hydrangea (Hydrangea anomala petiolaris). This perennial vine produces beautiful white lace-cap flowers in late spring and early summer. And it blooms in shade! How nice to finally be able to brighten up those dimly lit areas in your garden.
The Climbing Hydrangea vine is an extremely versatile vine with year-round interest. Glossy green leaves cover eye sores all growing season and then the summer foliage turns brilliant yellow as a nice fall color feature. The exfoliating, reddish-brown bark of mature plants is attractive in winter.
Get ready to see butterflies visiting the wide, flat pretty lace cap flower clusters to gather nectar. All parts of this pretty plant are fragrant, too. And it thrives in shady conditions, can you believe it?
As you might imagine, this desirable plant is in high demand. Nature Hills growers are thrilled to offer this plant, but you should hurry. We will sell out of this selection quickly.
Climbing Hydrangea is native to wooded forests, streams and shaded mountain slopes of Japan, China and South Korea. With a prolific production of large white flowers in late spring and early summer, these unique climbers do take a bit of time to get established.
Please be patient. You may wonder what you are doing wrong when you first plant it as it is a slow starter. Once your Climbing Hydrangea gets established, you will soon notice some nice vigorous shoots and will eventually become more aggressive.
Flowering vines that bloom their heads off in shade are almost impossible to find. These slow-to-start vines are vigorous, easy to care for, and hard to find but our production team has this one figured out!
If you see them in stock on our website, be sure to place your order as soon as you can. You'll be competing with other homeowners who also want to use this special variety to brighten up their shady landscapes. Order now!
How to Use Climbing Hydrangea in the Landscape
Many professional horticulturists agree that there is no better climbing vine than the Climbing Hydrangea. Use this plant for climbing on arbors, fences or the trunks of large trees, and over walls. It also can be grown as a ground cover in shady areas or on steep embankments.
Climbing Hydrangea is one of the best vines for clinging to brick or stone walls. It can be particularly effective when grown against building walls where it can easily attach and cling to the surface using its aerial rootlets are durable holdfasts.
Cold and heat tolerant in USDA hardiness zones 4 through 10. This is also a great selection for espalier in a flat fan shape along the back fence. What a treat for your guests!
If grown on a house, plan to cut around windows and doorways to create a wonderful Fairy Tale cottage or castle. We are sure your imagination is working overtime! Have fun with this wonderful plant.
You'll love to perfume your home with the flowers for fresh-cut arrangements. Allow them to dry for fabulous dried flower displays. Or, just enjoy the reddish-brown dried flower heads on the plant for texture and visual interest. The lace cap blossoms are similar to Hydrangea shrubs and look lovely, romantic and lacy!
Its modified roots will attach to almost any surface. Climbing Hydrangea also can be grown as a flowering groundcover in shady areas or on steep embankments. When left unsupported, the plant mounds to about 3 feet tall and will scramble over the ground. That's much safer and prettier than trying to mow turf on a slope.
On a slope, plant near the top, and point the plants downhill. Plant 6 feet apart on center, measuring from the center of one to the center of the next. Manage their growth by positioning new stems downhill as needed. Keep mass plantings mulched and weeded as they fill in. Add additional rows 20 - 30 feet further downhill.
#ProPlantTips for Care
These lovely deciduous vines grow well in moist, well-drained soils with plenty of organic matter added to planting. It prefers an acid soil of 6 to 6.5 but is adapted to a wide range of soil types as long as the drainage is good.
They are very cold hardy but will need a moderate amount of regular water. Use the Finger Test to see if they need additional water. Push your finger into the soil up to the second knuckle. Is it getting dry? Give it a long drink. Still moist? Skip watering that day.
Climbing Hydrangea will not do well in full sun, give it a partial shade setting for the best results. In colder Zone 5 or in high humidity climates, it can handle more direct morning sun with afternoon shade. If you live in a drier climate or in Zones 8, 9 and 10, you should plant in full shade. Mulch the root zone 3 to 4 inches deep to keep surface roots consistently moist and cool.
Please note that they do take time to get established in your soil. This plant is slow to establish but once it gets well rooted in the ground, the vigor improves dramatically. It is also slow to come into flower, so please remember that patience is a virtue and these gorgeous blooms are worth the wait!
They definitely fit that old garden adage "the first year they sleep, the second year they creep and the third year they leap!" Give it a very sturdy structure to grow on. They'll add so much beauty to shady spots around your yard. Just supply a sturdy trellis for them to climb on and watch them go!
The plant is nearly disease and pest free. The most common problem is chlorosis caused by higher pH soils. Fertilize with Dr. Earth's Acid Lovers Natural and Organic Premium Fertilizer in the fall and after blooming to keep the plant healthy and soil pH acidic.
It blooms on last year's wood, so prune right after its blooms start to fade in the late spring to early summer. Left alone, Climbing Hydrangea develops a bushy, informal habit. Keep it neat and uniform with regular light summer pruning.
Finding Climbing hydrangea for sale can be a challenge. Buy yours from Nature Hills before we sell out
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Nature Hills Nursery shipped 2 Tidbit Panicle Hydrangeas to my home in the same container. One arrived in good condition and the other was essentially dead. I have planted the good Hydrangea, and it seems to be doing well in my garden. I recommend different packaging when shipping 2 plants together. Both plants should have their base pot on the same side of the container with verbiage on the box stating, "This Side Up". The 1 that did not make it was planted with the base pot facing the opposite direction of the other plant. When the box got turned "upside down" in relation to the Hydrangea that arrived in good condition, some of the moist soil in the "bad" plant apparently fell out.
First of all, the communication with this company has to be the worse I've ever experienced, it took almost 3 months before I got the oakleaf hydrangea( I emailed this company several times regarding the shipping info with no response) not to mention that I ordered a red slipper but got a alice white hydrangea (they charged me for a red slipper tho)
Upon arrival, this plant was in terrible shape, broken new growth, torn leaves and not enough soil around its roots, the box it came in looked like it had been kicked around. Now that the hydrangea has been planted and being cared for it looks much better.
Unfortunately!!!
I won't be ordering from this company ever again
Terrible quality Azure Skies Hydrangeas. I ordered #3 pots and they took 3 smaller plants, bundled them together and shoved them into a #3. When you plant them the root systems are not even established so they literally fall apart. As you can see from the photos they are terrible quality. Avoid avoid avoid and go support your local nursery instead.
I ordered two of these plants. I received one, dying little plant. Emails have gone unanswered. If you call, you get their voicemail and no one will call you back. The website says “use our live chat”, but that does not exist. I got scammed by this company.
Arrived in great condition! Did go through a small
Shock and lost a leaf or two but bounced right back. Doing good!
Disappointed in this one. It looked less than healthy when received, dead leaves in the box and some were deformed and spotty. As a new gardener I thought it was just in shock from travel and planted right away. Watered often and kept removing the damaged leaves. Today I noticed fine webs on the underside, suspect spider mites. Removed bad leaves again and washed the plant. Hoping it survives. Bought 3 different shrubs, this was the largest and most costly unfortunately. Satisfied with my other plants
I Loved these! I had a pink Victorian home so wanted the White Annabelle Hydrangeas. - After a couple years they were so full and beautiful year after year. They recommended the Root booster for about $15 and added that as well. You will not regret buying these. Beautiful year after year!
Arrived in great condition and seem very happy in the ground. Two weeks in and doing great.
Plant arrived dead. I’ve reached out multiple ways email, chat support, social media(they deleted my comment) it’s been over a week now so might as well just take this as a loss and never order from this company ever again. Google the reviews. Search Facebook. Plenty of negative reviews saying this is a scam. I should have done more research on this company.
My plant came in pretty much dead
Dried leafs and broken stems
They're vigorously growing. Dark green leaves and flowers are popping up. Couldn't be happier.
Very first time planting this flower, coming from Houston Texas. I was a little nervous since these plants require a lot of care and water but she has been doing so well!!! I water her twice. Early morning before work (6am) and after sun down (after 7pm). I placed some mulch on the pot so that has been helpful at keeping the soil moist. I was really afraid of drowning her or giving too much water mostly in the early afternoon where the sun was starting to burn through leaves due to me giving it water at 5pm. Shes blossoming beautifully and cannot wait until shes fully open. I also recently purchased her back at the beginning/mid May. Very fast shipping too!
Hi there! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review for our Endless Summer Bigleaf Hydrangea. We're so happy to hear that it's doing well in your care and that you're taking such good care of her. It sounds like you have a great watering routine in place and the mulch is definitely a helpful addition. We hope you continue to enjoy watching her blossom and thank you for choosing our product. Happy gardening!
I received 2 of the #2 pots. Love, love, love these Summer Crush Bigleaf Hydrangeas! So well packaged and so healthy!
Plant arrived quickly and in good condition. It’s doing well in the ground.
Annabelle arrived a bit dehydrated and that worried me. So I pampered her with water, light shade and clipped any leaves that were concerning. After a week or so, she perked up and now has a lot of good new growth. I am glad I treated the hydrangea with patience because that was all it really needed.
My hydrangea is growing great so far.
Beautiful plants - healthy - one looked like it was not gonna make it but it revived nicely
Hydrangeas had a little trouble adapting but seem to be doing fine now
It's alive and growing, and extremely thirsty for gallons of water. Mine is a #3 size shrub, tall enough to have a noticeable "front" and "back." The front has a fuller look, more flowering branches, and the back has taller branches at the top and more spindly stems down the side. Probably from its orientation at the nursery. I planted it back to front before I noticed this growing pattern, but I expect after a year or two with pruning, the shape will even out. It already attracts pollinators to the pretty flowers. I've seen tiny native bees and honeybees checking it out, so we're good to go!
I was thrilled to find original Quick Fire for sale, because Proven Winners discontinued that variety several years ago. The plant is doing great, but I'm reserving judgement until I see that it is original Quick Fire and not one of the derivative varieties. I have all my documents just in case...
I'm very happy with my plants
I received these hydrangeas in great condition and look forward to seeing their beautiful blooms.
Came well packaged. Planted a couple of weeks ago and looking healthy but no new growth yet. High hopes for next year
They are healthy
The purchase and delivery went smoothly. Plant arrived well packaged and looking healthy. I already planted it in a bigger pot and it is showing signs of new growth. Looks very promising.
