Hydrangea macrophylla Blackberry Pie ('Makz') (Flair & Flavours Series) (L)
hydrangea [Blackberry Pie]
a shrub up to 1m high with dark green leaves, tinged with purple, and lace-cap flowerheads, the sterile flowers with pink petals, tinged blue at the centres, the fertile flowers pink in bud opening to blue, from midsummer to early autumn; flower colours will depend on soil
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Growing conditions
Colour & scent
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Botanical details
- Family
- Hydrangeaceae
- Native to GB / Ireland
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Skin, allergen., Wear, gloves, and, other, protective, equipment, when, handling
- Genus
Hydrangea can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs, or self-clinging climbers, with flowers in clusters usually comprising both small fertile and more showy sterile flowers; often good autumn colour
- Name status
Trade
- Horticultural Group
- Lace cap hydrangeas are compact deciduous shrubs with broadly ovate leaves and flat or gently domed clusters of small fertile flowers, with showy sterile flowers around the margin
How to grow
Cultivation
Grow in any moist but well-drained soil in partial shade or grow in sun if soil remains reliably moist. Improve chalky soils with organic matter to support good growth. See shrubby hydrangea cultivation for further advice
Propagation
Propagate by softwood cuttings in early summer, or by hardwood cuttings in winter
Suggested planting locations and garden types
Pruning
See pruning group 4 for further advice and video guide
Pests
May be susceptible to aphids, capsid bug, hydrangea scale and vine weevil
Diseases
May be susceptible to a leaf spot, powdery mildews, grey moulds (Botrytis) and honey fungus (rarely)
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