Hydrangea Arborescens Smooth Hydrangea

Hydrangea Arborescens Smooth Hydrangea is a rounded, deciduous shrub with tiny white, green, pink, or cream fertile flowers that bloom in flattened hairy clusters from May to July. Throughout the summer and into September, there may be scattered continuing flowering. Typically, a few large sterile flowers appear at the cluster margins. Flowers are followed by dehiscent seed capsules that ripen in October-November. It is ideal for mass and specimen plantings. Smooth Hydrangea has gray-brown stems covered in opposite, simple, broadly egg-shaped to rounded, sharply toothed, dark green leaves with pale green undersides. In the autumn, the leaves turn yellow. The lower leaf surface is smooth or has small fine hairs. It prefers neutral to acidic, well-drained, moist soils in full sun to partial shade.