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Magical Hydrangea

chookmomchookmom Posts: 2
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Hi,

yesterday I bought a Magical Four Seasons Hydrangea (Hydrangea Macrophylla Magical) Ruby Tuesday. It is a lovely dark red colour and is to go in a container.

I asked the Garden Centre assistant if I needed special soil and she told me I would need ericacious compost which I have now bought. 

I haven't yet potted it up because I then got to thinking isn't the acid soil only for making the flowers blue which I don't want.

I don't know if this applies to this particular type of hydrangea. I can't find anything about soil on the website for anything other than blue varieties.

Any help much appreciated.

Thank you

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    Hi chookmon. You are right and the Garden Centre assistant got it wrong. Maybe he/she was thinking back to litmus paper in Science. image

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  • chookmomchookmom Posts: 2

    Thank you Ladybird4. I have taken the compost back and swapped it for multi-purpose. :)

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