Hydrangea macrophylla Zorro-Hydrangea in 12 cm Pot

Hydrangea macrophylla, perhaps one of the best known garden plants. Originally from Japan these robust and reliable plants produce a truly amazing display in summer and autumn. Hydrangea macrophylla Zorro is a recent introduction, a strong, hardy grower, a truly superb, distinctive plant that blooms with beautifully shaped rich blue flowers in acid soils or pink in alkaline soils. Numerous large ray flowers circle the tiny center flowers among the supporting dark green foliage. Most striking are the unusual, almost black stems, that give magnificent contrast. If you have an alkaline soil, treatment with Hydrangea bluing agent will help the flowers to colour near blue, which in my opinion is the colour this plant looks at its best in! Very easy to grow, it can be grown in the garden or in a pot or container. In containers use a good quality John Innes compost as this plant will be there a long time and peaty types of compost eventually degrade, become too packed and choke the roots. Ensure you feed regularly as a hungry plant is a poor performer. We recommend Osmoscote pro 8 - 9 month applied in the early spring. One application gives all the nutrients the plant requires for the whole year. John Innes is a soils based compost. A vigorous grower that will need pruning. After flowering prune back to close to the old wood. If the plant becomes too large a more drastic pruning can be undertaken!