Hydrangea Little Lime
* Common name: Hydrangea Little Lime
* Botanical name: Hydrangea paniculata ‘Jane’
Hydrangea ‘Little Lime.’
* What it is: A long-blooming shrub that gets large, 6-inch-wide, cone-shaped flower clusters of lime-white from early to late summer. Flowers mature pink. This one is a compact version of the popular ‘Limelight.’
* Size: 4 feet tall and wide.
* Where to use: Excellent specimen in any sunny to partly sunny mixed garden or along an east, west or south foundation. Also makes a good blooming hedge around patios or along property borders.
* Care: Thin out excess or crossing branches at the end of winter. Also shorten the rest of the plant as low as ankle-high for maximum compactness. Just thin if size is OK. Will do fine even with no pruning. Scatter a granular, balanced fertilizer over the bed at winter’s end. Water needed only in very dry weather. Has good drought tolerance. Cut a few flowers for arrangements.
* Great partner: Coreopsis ‘Big Bang Mercury Rising’ (perennial) or purple petunias (annual).