Oakleaf Hydrangea

[Meadowlark]

This shrub is native to East Texas and has just started blooming good at our house. The flowers are white but as summer goes along they pick up a beautiful pink hue. The leaves are lobed and resemble those of oak trees from which it gets its name. Very easy to care for and unlike their famous cousins with pink and blue flowers, these oakleafs are tough, cold hardy and drought resistant.

The blooms will just get more and more prevalent as time goes by. Really a very nice easy care plant.

 

[oneeye]

Those flowers smell good too but not over-powering. Shes beautiful!

 

[mgmine]

We never get flowers. The deer love the bush and chew it every year. Not even a wire fence stops them.

 

[Meadowlark]

We never get flowers. The deer love the bush and chew it every year. Not even a wire fence stops them.

Outside dogs...without them I could not have any garden.

 

[Luis_pr]

It is an early bloomer here so all my oakleaf hydrangea cultivars' blooms have turned brown by this time. Very drought tolerant, as far as a hydrangea can be. Hee, hee, hee.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Yes, I have two large ones, been there for 10 plus years.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

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[Esther Knapicius]

Those flowers smell good too but not over-powering. Shes beautiful!

never had a smell on mine?

 

[Luis_pr]

We need to try checking for smell earlier in the growing season, on a cloudy morning with no winds. My blooms are brown now so I cannot try to smell now (post was done in May). What you need to start gearing to enjoy now is the Fall foliage colors. In my area, that starts later than in PA. Maybe November-December.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

We need to try checking for smell earlier in the growing season, on a cloudy morning with no winds. My blooms are brown now so I cannot try to smell now (post was done in May). What you need to start gearing to enjoy now is the Fall foliage colors. In my area, that starts later than in PA. Maybe November-December.

as I have had them about 10 years, I have checked for smells many time over the years at different periods of growth of them. Nope, no smell. yep fall colors now of it.

 

[Luis_pr]

Ok, will try to remember to let you know if I detect some scent next season. We all have different capabilities. I can sense scent from plants (at least, most of the time) but my late mother could not detect any scent from my 100+ roses!

 

[Esther Knapicius]

@Luis_pr , I was told, before I bought one, and it was listed in the description that an Annabelle has a scent. Have had 3 Annabells for past 10 or so years, I am smelling them often to see if at a certain opening time there is a scent, or later after opening, or near the end. Nope. If I creatively try to smell it I might imagine something, but its not there. Have lots of other scrubs that smell . I have a nice scented climbing rose next to the deck, it has a awesome smell. Then there are the 3 types of Lilac scrubs, and vibrunms.

 

[Luis_pr]

I have not tried to smell the hydrangea arborescens cultivars to see if they have a scent, only the paniculatas. I would expect to catch some smell from lacecap cultivars like White Dome or the wild species. But hydrangea blooms this time of the year probably have little scent left as it is used to attract pollinators in the Spring. Lilacs should be tops in that department, specially the rebloomer lilacs!

 

[Esther Knapicius]

I have not tried to smell the hydrangea arborescens cultivars to see if they have a scent, only the paniculatas. I would expect to catch some smell from lacecap cultivars like White Dome or the wild species. But hydrangea blooms this time of the year probably have little scent left as it is used to attract pollinators in the Spring. Lilacs should be tops in that department, specially the rebloomer lilacs!

Have about 6 types of hydrangeas, I give each a honest sniff through the year, nothing. Have lots of butterflies on a few.

 

[Luis_pr]

Which ones best attract the butterflies for your garden?

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Which ones best attract the butterflies for your garden?

seems the tall tree shaped one I have does. but I also have a huge Joe Pye Weed in the bottom garden. seen butterflies on the phlox also.

 

[Luis_pr]

I hope everyone is healthy and doing well. Scent update on the oakleafs: Snow Queen has a faint scent but only if you touch the bloom with your nose and inhale. Ruby Splippers has the same degree of scent as Snow Queen, as long as you put your nose on the tip of the bloom and inhale (the sepals get in the way otherwise). Pee Wee has a some scent if you take your nose up close to the bloom but, the scent is fainter than it was for the other two. Smelled them in the afternoon, on party cloudy day, at 4:45pm CT. They may smell stronger in the morning maybe... It is too early for Annabelle blooms.

 

[LouisFerdinand]

One of the best Hydrangeas out there