Hydrangea Tiny Tuff Stuff™ Mountain

Hydrangea Tiny Tuff Stuff™ Mountain

Hydrangea serrata 'MAKD' PP#24,842

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An extremely aptly named Hydrangea, Tiny Tuff Stuff™ is small enough for containers and covers itself with elegant, delicate-looking blooms, but it offers a very tough nature. Very bud-hardy, it produces an abundance of lacecap blooms made up of doubled sepals.

This robust rebloomer starts flowering in late spring, continuing into mid-fall. The flowers start off from blue to pink to white, aging to an attractive pink and tipping down in a very distinctive arching fashion. It looks fantastic in any style garden, no matter how refined or sophisticated.

The Mountain Hydrangea grows to a wonderfully manageable size of 18 to 24 inches high and wide, making it ideal for even the smallest garden. It will be happy in full sun or part shade and flowers on both new and old wood. Zones 5-9.

Hydrangea Incrediball Following just a few simple growing tips for hydrangea will produce healthy plants with fluffy colorful blooms year after year.

Planting Your Hydrangea

Planting your hydrangeas in early spring or in the fall is ideal. When you are planting a hydrangea, remember that the blooms and stems must be protected from strong winds and the hot afternoon sun. Avoid planting in open areas where strong winds could break stems. Planting on the eastern side of a building ensures that, in the afternoon, when the sun is at its hottest, your plants are in the shade.
Make sure your plant has good drainage. If the soil is too wet, the roots might rot, and the plant will die. Incorporate a lot of organic matter and an all-purpose slow-release fertilizer into the soil to give your hydrangea a strong start.

General Hydrangea Care

  • If you plant them in the summer, they need a lot more water in the beginning to establish the root system.
  • Most varieties thrive in full sun to part shade, as long as they are planted in moist, rich soil.
  • Water deeply once a week, and maybe more, if the weather is particularly hot or dry.
  • Hydrangea fertilization needs vary greatly, depending on your intended bloom color. Certain elements of the fertilizer affect the soil pH, which is a major determinant of bloom color in the pink/blue hydrangea varieties.


Planting:

Space according to ultimate size. Choose a good garden soil, high in organic matter that will help keep ample moisture available to the roots. The location should be sunny or partly shaded, the latter being preferable in dry areas.

If the pH of your soil is too high (alkaline), it can be reduced (made more acidic) by the addition of one tablespoon or more of Aluminum Sulfate per plant – this will make your flowers a deeper blue.


Maintenance:

An annual mulch of compost is beneficial. In very cold or exposed locations, “hill” up the soil and mulch the base of the plant with pine needles or leaves. Most species require little pruning except the removal of dead flower heads after blooming or in early spring.

For H. arborescens, prune the previous year’s flowering wood to the ground in early spring. For H. macrophylla (H. hortensis) and H. serrata, thin out two- or threeyear- old flowering shoots at ground level to promote vigorous new growth. H.petiolaris should be pruned only for aesthetics.


Zones:

Zones various

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