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anyone have a climbing hydrangea?
I've been drooling over this one for awhile. Anyone have experience with one? I want something to cover the side of the house and serve as kind of a backdrop to our seating/bbqing area. It looks like it attaches by tendrils and won't need trellising. (Which is good, because I don't really want to engineer 40' of trellising.)
I'm also looking at evergreen clematis, but that comes with a trellising problem and isn't as interesting looking, imo.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
Re: anyone have a climbing hydrangea?
Our neighbor has one that I look at everyday out my window!
She's had it for several years, and last year it got one bloom, and she's hoping for more this year. No trellis, it's just growing up the side of her brick house. It's a beautiful climbing plant!
I have 3 of them. I had 4 until a couple years ago, one disappeared, literally... I think a rodent ate. There was so much foliage from the other three I don't really know when it went missing.
I planted these in 1998, the same year I had my deck built. My idea was that they'd cover up the ugly lattice work at the bottom (the first 4 ft off the ground) and eventually climb up my house and cover a goodly portion of it... a beautiful plan, but it never happened.
Climbing hydrangeas are notoriously slow to establish. Mine were in 1 gallon pots and about 1 ft tall when they went in. Since 1998, they have grown about 3 ft. - HARDLY what I had in mind after 12 years in the ground! They did cover the lattice, then they stopped growing. They have never bloomed (they produced a few tiny petals over the years, but that's it).
I still think that a mature climbing hydrangea is breathtaking. I wish my plan had worked out... but that's my experience with climbing hydrangeas.
I also have a Schizophragma hydrangeoides 'Moonlight', which has perfromed much better. Google that and see what you think.
I like the "Moonlight" especially the foliage but the spread isn't quite as exciting as the species. Although if it won't be enjoyed until the next people own the house, maybe that doesn't matter. For both of them I like their winter look a lot better than clematis, but if I'm honest it's against the back of the house and winter is dreary enough here (6 months of solid drizzle) that it's not like we're going to be going back to admire it very often.
I'm also concerned about the amount of sun it will get. That wall gets solid shade in the morning then pretty intense sun in the afternoon. More thinking to do.
Thank you for your help!
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
My Schizophragma doesn't get full sun but for maybe an hour a day.
So you were looking at Clematis armandii and decided you didn't like it? Why? I think it's really lovely. Was that not the one you were looking at?
I don't think the one I was looking at was armandii. I believe those are invasive here (we live near a preserved habitat and I want to be careful). The one I was looking at had softer, matte leaves but was also variegated yellow. I didn't like that particular shade of yellow and no one seems to have it without the variegation. Also the growth habit isn't as interesting as the hydrangea, but I need to remind myself that doesn't matter if I'm not going to get to see it.
I need to do a bunch of prep in that area first, so I'm not in a hurry and can keep looking and pondering.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
I planted a climbing hydrangea last year and it didn't do much. This year it has already grown quite a lot and I see that it is going to flower too. Mine gets full morning sun and no afternoon sun, it's planted against the east side of our house.
I didn't know that it didn't need to be trellised though. I was planning to buy a new trellis this year before it gets too large because it looks like it may try to creep under our siding and I don't want to risk that.
I'm really not much of a green thumb so I think maybe just finding the right amount of sun/light may be key.