Blue-blooming leadwort makes a nice massed underplanting in afternoon-shade areas. * Great partner: Catmint, salvia or dwarf Russian sage are good perennials around the base in sunny areas. The color of the flowers is also crimson-pink.
Little Quick Fire grows up to 5 feet in height and the same width. This variety has the same advantages as Quick Fire (early flowering), but it is much smaller. For those who love dwarf plants, I want to introduce Little Quick Fire Hydrangea. Water needed only in very hot, dry weather after regular watering the first season to establish the roots. There also is Little Quick Fire Hydrangea. Scatter granular organic or slow-acting fertilizer in April. Like Quick Fire, it is early blooming, flowering about a month before other hydrangeas starting in late June or early July. If you’re pruning as a tree, remove any new shoots from the base, remove lower branches to clear trunk, then cut back remaining canopy into a tight ball. Thin out and cut back stems by one third to one half (even more to maintain a smaller plant). Does fine in even full, direct summer sun but also blooms in half-day sun. But a line of them also makes a striking flowering hedge when planted 5 or 6 feet apart along a fence or property line. * Where to use: Great specimen for a house corner or a bed or border centerpiece. There’s also a Little Quick Fire variety that grows in the 4- to 5-foot range if the full-size Quick Fire is too big. Can be pruned into a single-stem small tree or treated as a mid-sized flowering shrub. Quick Fire is the earliest of this type to bloom, starting two to four weeks sooner than the species. * What it is: A panicle type of hydrangea, also known as a hardy hydrangea, that gets showy masses of big, white cone-shaped flowers that turn to a rosy-white bicolor and then to darker rose from early summer into fall. Click here for a list of retailers.* Botanical name: Hydrangea paniculata ‘Bulk’ Quick Fire Fab hydrangea will be available in better garden centers beginning spring 2021. Strong, sturdy stems keep blooms clean, upright, and showy all year round Unique X-shaped flowers go from white to pink to bright pink to deep red through the season The earliest blooming mophead panicle hydrangea - enjoy extra weeks of blooms Uses: Thanks to its large size and dense leaf and flower coverage, Quick Fire Fab hydrangea makes an outstanding choice for a flowering hedge, commanding specimen, or backdrop to a flower garden.
Top reasons to grow Quick Fire Fab hydrangea: Bloom color: White, aging to vivid, saturated pink, then red. Quick Fire Fab provides 3+ months of flowers and color in your landscape or garden, and does it all with almost no work or effort from you. As the blooms age, they turn blush pink, then bright pink, then red, from the bottom up, making each one look like a big delicious ice cream cone that goes from vanilla to berry as the summer progresses.
If you look closely at the lush blooms, you'll see each floret has an unusual cruciform shape which gives them a textural effect you won't find in other panicle hydrangeas. Like the other Quick Fire varieties, it blooms early and growers can easily get this plant to market in bud and bloom in May. Perfect for the front of the border or for mass planting in drifts. paniculata) is the smallest, most versatile selection yet. How fabulous is that? It's the best way to get the earliest possible panicle hydrangea flowers, expanding the seasonal display by two weeks or more every year. Cute as the dickens, Tiny Quick Fire panicle hydrangea ( H. Quick Fire Fab ® panicle hydrangea shares the same super-early bloom time, rock-solid reliability, and easy-going nature of the original Quick Fire hydrangea, but adds big, full, showy mophead blooms to the mix.
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