What is Oakleaf Hydrangea?
Hydrangea quercifolia or Oakleaf Hydrangea is a flowering shrub originally for streams and humid forests in the southeastern United States. Its natural range extends from Florida to Louisiana and north of Tennessee to North Carolina. Gardeners cultivate Oakleaf hydrangea as ornamental plants and appreciate them for their large, striking flowers and attractive leaves.
These deciduous shrubs can grow between three and 15 feet high depending on cultivation conditions and cultivated variety or cultivar. Most varieties have more stems and rounded forms. Older stems peel off or peel their backs to reveal the inner bark of cinnamon.
Oakleaf hydrangea leaves that move between three and eight inch long, are strongly similar to the leaves of oak trees. Each leaf has a dark green color, with three to seven lobes, coarse textures and serrated edges. The leaves turn red, orange or purple in the autumn.
During the summer, 10 -inch pyraobices with Midal clusters of white tothe sentences. As the vegetation season continues, white flowers ripen to pink and eventually disappeared in the autumn. The half -inch dry, oval brown fruit will replace flowers.
Oakleaf Hydrangeas thrives in full or partial sunlight. They grow best in well -drained humid soil rich in nutrients and are durable in the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States 5 to 9. The mulch layer around the base of the plant helps to suppress the growth of weeds and maintain the humidity and temperature of the soil. Oakleaf Hydrangeas requires low maintenance. Promote cuts or seeds.
"Pee Wee" is a common cultivar Hydrangea quercifolia . This dwarf variety only grows between four to six feet tall and gives four -inch white flowers. "Harmony", a larger selection, reaches heights of 10 feet and tends to bring heavy clusters blossomes. "Allison", one of the largest cultivars, reaches heights of 15 feet and produces long floral clusters.
Home owners cultivate hydrangea quercifolia like plants, boundaries or in a naturalized environment. Oakleaf Hydrangea is generally without pests, although several diseases such as mold with powder and botrytis mold, sometimes damage the leaves. These shrubs are not particularly-hard and may suffer injuries or discarding in zone 5. The leaves could be exposed to harsh or intense sunlight, skald.
In 1998, the prosecutor of Alabama Gerald Willis introduced a bill that proposed the name of Oakleaf Hydrangea as Alabama's State Wilderness. His first bill failed, but the Alabama House of Representatives and Alabama State approved their second bill. Governor signed this in the Act 25 May 1999.