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Odd flowering for Annabel hydrangea
JGL
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I bought my hydrangea annabelle about four years ago and it was full of white flowers. Since then it is never flowered properly. this year it was a dusky pink with very few actual flowers. The pink flowers came in June and are now starting to fade to brown. However white flowers have also now asked us to come out the same colour as when I first bought the plant. How can I make sure The tickets are flowering white? I have attached a picture.
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It looks more like H. paniculata from the flower shape, and there are several varieties with flowers that change from white to pink...
Thanks - I'm aware of paniculata, but I don't think that's the problem.
When I originally bought it (it was in a September 3-4 years ago), it was white (round flowers, not pointed) and stayed white. Since then, it starts green, goes whitish (but not proper white) and then pink. Only this year have the 'proper white' flowers come late in the season. The pink flowers you can see in the picture are probably 3 months old, the white ones are about 2 week sold. If it was paniculata, I wouldn't be getting these new flowers, I would have been getting proper white flowers earlier in the season, and (when I bought it) the white would have turned pink).
As you can see, there are also lots of flower buds that haven't broken.
Can you have a rummage in the shrub and see whether the white flowers are from the same stems as the pink ones?
I've a feeling you may have two plants there ... either two different cuttings were put into one pot way back at the nursery, or ......... do they graft hydrangeas I wonder
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have both white (bursting in Oct) and pink (bursting in June, starting green/white going to pink) flowers on the same head as indicated in the photo. Something very odd about it... I have two on opposite sides of the garden in different sites (one very sunny and dry, one quite shady / damper) doing virtually the same thing...