Lil Ruby Dwarf Oakleaf Hydrangea

The color show continues into fall when the foliage turns burgundy.

Lil ruby dwarf oakleaf hydrangea.

Visit us to learn more about our ruby slippers dwarf oakleaf hydrangea. Pee wee features white spring flowers that fade to pink beautiful fall foliage and cinnamon colored bark in the winter. A dwarf four season shrub perfect for smaller gardens. Developed by one of the premier hydrangea hybridizers sandra reed of the u s.

This bushy shrub. Add interest to your landscape with this hardy shrub. National arboretum ruby slippers boasts a multitude of stocky flowers that show up as white and then mature to striking deep rose. Superb as a specimen or foundation plant in borders or group plantings.

If you have a small space want a hedge of hydrangeas or like to grow flower in containers consider the ruby slippers a dwarf oakleaf hydrangea whose bloom color changes from white to pink to dark red. Blossoms start out white and gradually turn pink then rose red as summer progresses. Southerners love hydrangeas for their color and ability to withstand our hot humid summers. Ruby slippers provides the same four season appeal and lavish flower production as its larger growing oakleaf hydrangea cousins but in less than half the space.

Outstanding color changes with the seasons. Ruby slippers is a compact form of oakleaf hydrangea which is a must have for smaller spaces. If your favorite hydrangea is not a bigleaf but instead the popular panicle hydrangea like limelight you can get the same look with dwarf hydrangea plants such as little lime hydrangea paniculata little lime. Dwarf plant easy care fall color fast growing gift plant north american native selection.

Ruby slippers oakleaf hydrangea hydrangea quercifolia ruby slippers sku 4816. Hydrangea quercifolia ruby slippers lil ruby dwarf oakleaf hydrangea april 21 2013 the broad green leaves of this deciduous woody shrub resemble oak leaves. Growing just 3 1 2 to 4 ft. Loads of large elongated flower clusters open to white in late spring or early summer and change to a dazzling ruby red as the season progresses.

Its large and showy deeply lobed oak shaped leaves emerge golden yellow in spring and retain this color well into summer gradually fading to chartreuse and then green by early fall at which. In fall the highly textured leathery leaves should turn scarlet and burgundy. Like limelight the blooms start a pale green then develop into a deep red in autumn. Other dwarf hydrangea varieties.

This true dwarf produces incredible 9 long clusters of flowers in early summer in full sun or partial shade.