Description

Hydrangea French Can Can bought as a new plant in Johnstown Garden Centre in March 2025 for €35.

First photo updated on 4th July. Second photo is from 1st July. Others are from two and a half weeks before apart from the third one which shows it on 10th July last year.

Macrophylla v. Serrata Hybrid. This is a small variety of Hydrangea, as hydrangeas go. It starts to flower with flowerlets on the outside which dance in the wind, thus it is called Can Can, after the dance of that name.

It then flowers looking more like a macrophylla in appearance after that, as you can see in the third photo from last summer. The leaves have a burnished brown/burgundy in spring and autumn and greener when in full flower in summer.

It had 3 flushes of blooms last year after I cut them off when they went off. I pruned it lightly in mid-February back to the next set of buds.

It can range in colour from salmon pink to mauve with several versions of pink in between including pink and white, depending on soil type and food given.

It is doing well, but I have moved apartment to where my patio container garden has full exposure to the West and South only, and this plant is not going to be able for full afternoon and early evening sun from South and West. It needs morning sun from the East and shade in the afternoon and evening, so I have to pass it on.

It is in a high quality sturdy green pot which is 40cm square externally and 33cm tall. This hydrangea will need to move up from this after this flowering season and it’s a very useful pot for something else.

It can be expected to get a lot bigger in its 3rd summer next year in a bigger pot or in the ground.

Collection only, from 1 minute off James’s Street, Dublin 8.

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