Hydrangea macrophylla 'Forever Pink' 9/2021 Bigleaf-
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Forever Pink' 9/2021 Bigleaf- (1951) Compact Bigleaf Hydrangea, Mature size: 3x3’, Colorfast Mophead, USDA Hardiness Zone 6, Michigan Bloom Month 6, In Garden Bed D1 for 3.1 YEARS (MBulb). Planted in 2018.
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Draps Wonder' is marketed in the US as 'Forever Pink'. The name implies that it is somewhat colorfast (and pink). Of course, if you add aluminum sulfate to the soil, you will have to change the name to 'forever blue'. It has broad rounded, sharply toothed dark green leaves with pale green undersides. Leaves turn yellow in fall. Michael Dirr reported that it was sensitive to cold weather (it was part of his cold weather trials at the University of Georgia). The Belgian nursery Draps Dom introduced 'Draps Wonder' in 1951.
2020 note: No signs of a bloom after 2 years in the soil. Probably blooms on ild wood only. Protected with a plastic wrapped wire cylinder.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Additional photos of this plant from 2018, 20, 21:
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Forever Pink' 9/2021 Bigleaf-
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Forever Pink' 9/2021 Bigleaf- (1951) Compact Bigleaf Hydrangea, Mature size: 3x3’, Colorfast Mophead, USDA Hardiness Zone 6, Michigan Bloom Month 6, In Garden Bed D1 for 3.1 YEARS (MBulb). Planted in 2018.
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Draps Wonder' is marketed in the US as 'Forever Pink'. The name implies that it is somewhat colorfast (and pink). Of course, if you add aluminum sulfate to the soil, you will have to change the name to 'forever blue'. It has broad rounded, sharply toothed dark green leaves with pale green undersides. Leaves turn yellow in fall. Michael Dirr reported that it was sensitive to cold weather (it was part of his cold weather trials at the University of Georgia). The Belgian nursery Draps Dom introduced 'Draps Wonder' in 1951.
2020 note: No signs of a bloom after 2 years in the soil. Probably blooms on ild wood only. Protected with a plastic wrapped wire cylinder.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Additional photos of this plant from 2018, 20, 21: