Blushing Bride Endless Summer Hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Blushing Bride’ – PP # 17,169

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone >

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 4′

Width at Maturity: 4′

Growth Habit / Form: Bushy, Dense, Globose/Round, Mounding

Flower Color: Blue in acid soil or Pink in alkaline soil

Flower Size: Large – up to 8″ inch diameter!

Flowering Period: Early Summer through Fall!

Flower Type: Single in large clusters

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, Lower when established

Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist

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

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought (when established in part shade), Heat, Humidity, Insect

Description

The Blushing Bride Endless Summer Hydrangea is just like it cousins, but produces an abundance of beautiful, 8-inch diameter, white flowers blushed with soft pink. The flowers come all summer long and deep into fall. It is equally hardy as it is beautiful. We have yet to find a mophead hydrangea that stands up to the heat as well as the Endless Summer varieties.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing to 4 feet tall and wide and producing abundant flowers throughout the season, the Blushing Bride Hydrangea is useful as an accent, in small groupings, as a natural hedge in home foundation [plantings and landscape borders. It is also highly suitable for container culture and is ideal for use in cottage and cut flower gardens as well as blue colored theme gardens.

Spacing: 4′ for solid hedges; 7′ or more for space between plants

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Planting Zone 4a, 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

Blushing Bride Hydrangea are easy to grow in average, moist, well-drained soil. The plants will tolerate full sun in northern zones however will appreciate some afternoon shade or filtered sun in warmer southern zones. We recommend at least 5 hours of direct sunlight per day or all day lightly filtered sun for best flowering. Unlike other mophead hydrangea, you can prune the Endless Summer hydrangeas at any time of year, though we recommend a late winter pruning and a deadheading (removal of faded flowers) after its first flush of blooms have faded. USDA Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone >

Note: Blushing Bride 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 the link(s) below to get advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Hydrangea shrubs…

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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6 plants arrived in excellent condition during a very hot spell. They were well prepared and have set in nicely. Looking forward to some lovely blooms as they mature.—————————————————————-We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the kind words and great review! Beth | WBG 🙂

The plant we ordered arrived in perfect condition. We were surprised at the packaging.——————————————-We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂

Got all three plants and they are in great shape. They were very well packed, and they have been planted. Can’t wait to see them grow.
Thank you.————————————————————-Thanks so much for your review. Let us know if there’s ever anything we can help you with. 🙂 – Beth | WBG

We ordered the blushing brides and received them in perfect condition not even a leaf was damaged. I planted them approx two weeks ago and are doing very well.Thank you to all at Wilson Brothers I will definitely be ordering from you folks again.————————-WBG Reply: Hi Dean, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Blushing Bride Endless Summer Hydrangea. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come!
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens