I was given one last year and it was flowering in the pot at the time and the thompson & Morgan picture is far darker than I remember but it was a dark red colour. The other picture above is where it's starting to colour up, it goes a red and deepens as the flowers age.
A friend liked it, so I took a couple of cuttings and gave it to them. I believe it's done well for them and the cuttings are strong and without any signs of disease.
I was given one last year and it was flowering in the pot at the time and the thompson & Morgan picture is far darker than I remember but it was a dark red colour. The other picture above is where it's starting to colour up, it goes a red and deepens as the flowers age.
A friend liked it, so I took a couple of cuttings and gave it to them. I believe it's done well for them and the cuttings are strong and without any signs of disease.
Thanks! Would you say it's more like a rose red/ wine colour and thoroughly red coloured or patchy in real life?
Thanks! Would you say it's more like a rose red/ wine colour and thoroughly red coloured or patchy in real life?
As Fairygirl mentions, the flowers mature through different stages and show a few colours at most stages but I do remember a really dark wine coloured phase, with perhaps a few slightly lighter patches until then. I'm not a massive fan of hydrangeas but it was quite a nice flower colour that's much different to the normal varieties.
Our soil is slightly alkaline, so we naturally see pink flowers on normal mopheads. I don't know if this cultivar is affected by soil ph but if it is I could imagine an acidic soil might make them darker.
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A friend liked it, so I took a couple of cuttings and gave it to them. I believe it's done well for them and the cuttings are strong and without any signs of disease.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
As Fairygirl mentions, the flowers mature through different stages and show a few colours at most stages but I do remember a really dark wine coloured phase, with perhaps a few slightly lighter patches until then. I'm not a massive fan of hydrangeas but it was quite a nice flower colour that's much different to the normal varieties.
Our soil is slightly alkaline, so we naturally see pink flowers on normal mopheads. I don't know if this cultivar is affected by soil ph but if it is I could imagine an acidic soil might make them darker.