Love Hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Youme H1917’ PP24,755

Common Names: Bigleaf Hydrangea Love

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 3′

Width at Maturity: 3′

Spacing: 2.5-3′ for solid hedges or borders; 6’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Rounded Mound

Flower Color: Soft Green transitioning to shades of Pink

Flower Size: 1.5″ in 6-7″ diameter clusters

Flowering Period: Late Spring, reblooms in Summer and Fall

Flower Type: Double, Rosette-shaped

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: NA

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Part Shade (South) – Sun or Part Shade (North)

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay soil to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sand (amend quick draining soil to retain moisture), Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well Drained

Soil pH: 6.0 – 8.0 (Moderately Acid to Moderately Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Heat, Humidity

Description

Named perfectly, this Hydrangea is certainly easy to fall in love with! In late spring and reblooming during summer, the Love Hydrangea produces abundant floral quality blooms with unique triple to quadruple petaled flowers that open soft green transitioning to pink shades. The overlapping petals decrease in size towards the center of the flower creating a charming rosette. The flowers stand out very well against high-gloss rich green leaves on a compact mound to around 3 feet tall and equally as wide. Excellent as an accent in smaller garden spaces and home foundation plantings or grouped or as a colorful hedge where space will allow. Also suited for containers that can be situated on patios, decks, porches and balconies.

As with many other mophead hydrangeas soil pH will determine flower color. If you want to be sure to have pink flowers simply add pelletized agricultural limestone to the soil. If you’d rather have blue as Soil Sulfur.

Learn more about soil pH and how to adjust it

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing to about 3 feet tall and equally as wide, the Love Hydrangea is ideal for use as a specimen in small garden spaces and containers or in groupings or as a colorful hedge in home foundation plantings and landscape borders. A fine addition to hydrangea gardens, pink theme gardens, cut flower gardens and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 2.5 to 3 feet apart for solid hedges or borders; 6 feet or more apart for space between plants

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Planting Zone 5a, where this Hydrangea variety is not winter hardy outdoors, you can enjoy it in containers that can be moved indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

The Love Hydrangea is very easy to grow in most any average, moist but well-drained soil and sun or part shade. The plants will tolerate full sun in northern zones however appreciate some afternoon shade or filtered sun in warmer southern zones. We suggest at least 5 hours of direct sunlight per day or all day lightly filtered sun for best flowering. You choose the flower color. An alkaline soil produces pink to rose flowers while an acid soil produces purple to blue flowers. Learn more about soil pH and how to adjust it.

Note: Love Hydrangea is an everblooming Hydrangea macrophylla species that produces its flowers from buds formed on both new and old wood.

For proper pruning time and techniques on various types of Hydrangea see: How To Prune Various Types of Hydrangea

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Endless Summer Hydrangeas.

How To Plant Hydrangeas In The Ground & Pots

How To Prune Various Types Of Hydrangea

How To Fertilize And Water Hydrangeas

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Beautiful healthy plant! Looking forward to beautiful blooms next year.————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy your purchase for years to come! Thanks for the awesome review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG