Lil Ruby Dwarf Oakleaf Hydrangea

Other dwarf hydrangea varieties.

Lil ruby dwarf oakleaf hydrangea.

Southerners love hydrangeas for their color and ability to withstand our hot humid summers. Visit us to learn more about our ruby slippers dwarf oakleaf hydrangea. Pee wee features white spring flowers that fade to pink beautiful fall foliage and cinnamon colored bark in the winter. Like limelight the blooms start a pale green then develop into a deep red in autumn.

Home plant catalog ruby slippers oakleaf hydrangea. Ruby slippers is a compact form of oakleaf hydrangea which is a must have for smaller spaces. Loads of large elongated flower clusters open to white in late spring or early summer and change to a dazzling ruby red as the season progresses. Its large and showy deeply lobed oak shaped leaves emerge golden yellow in spring and retain this color well into summer gradually fading to chartreuse and then green by early fall at which.

Developed by one of the premier hydrangea hybridizers sandra reed of the u s. Growing just 3 1 2 to 4 ft. National arboretum ruby slippers boasts a multitude of stocky flowers that show up as white and then mature to striking deep rose. If you have a small space want a hedge of hydrangeas or like to grow flower in containers consider the ruby slippers a dwarf oakleaf hydrangea whose bloom color changes from white to pink to dark red.

If your favorite hydrangea is not a bigleaf but instead the popular panicle hydrangea like limelight you can get the same look with dwarf hydrangea plants such as little lime hydrangea paniculata little lime. Hydrangea quercifolia ruby slippers lil ruby dwarf oakleaf hydrangea april 21 2013 the broad green leaves of this deciduous woody shrub resemble oak leaves. A dwarf four season shrub perfect for smaller gardens. The little honey oakleaf hydrangea provides the same four season appeal as its larger cousins but with brilliant yellow leaves and in half the space.

Ruby slippers oakleaf hydrangea hydrangea quercifolia ruby slippers sku 4816. This true dwarf produces incredible 9 long clusters of flowers in early summer in full sun or partial shade. Blossoms start out white and gradually turn pink then rose red as summer progresses. The color show continues into fall when the foliage turns burgundy.

In fall the highly textured leathery leaves should turn scarlet and burgundy. This bushy shrub. Ruby slippers provides the same four season appeal and lavish flower production as its larger growing oakleaf hydrangea cousins but in less than half the space. Outstanding color changes with the seasons.

Add interest to your landscape with this hardy shrub.