Hydrangea paniculata Pastelgreen

Hydrangea paniculata Pastelgreen® 'Rencolor' is an innovative French creation. It is a paniculate hydrangea that stands out for its inflorescences that take the form of a ball rather than a cone. On each of them, dozens of small flowers are the seat of a colourful revolution, where white, green, pale pink and even bright pink coexist and succeed each other. This long summer flowering, crowns a bush with a compact habit, well adapted to small spaces and cultivation in large pots.

Hydrangea paniculata is a botanical species belonging to the Hydrangeaceae family, originating from China and Japan. It is particularly hardy. The variety Pastelgreen® 'Rencolor', introduced to the market in August 2016, is a particularly compact cultivar.

It will quickly reach 1 m to 1.2 m (3.3 ft to 3.9 ft) in all directions, which remains very moderate for a paniculate hydrangea. From the end of June, it blooms on the current year's wood with large rounded dense panicles. They gather a cloud of simple sterile florets, carried by long pedicels, quickly changing colour over time: they open in white, become white and green, then white, pale green, and turn into quickly fading bright pink, fading again in front of a pale green mixed with white shade. This variety has a ramified growth habit and solid branches, covered with medium green oval leaves that turn yellow in autumn before falling in winter.

Hydrangea paniculata distinguishes itself from its cousin, Hydrangea macrophylla, by its good tolerance towards the sun, sea spray, and relative drought. Planted in any good garden soil, without too much limestone, Hydrange paniculata Pastelgreen® 'Rencolor' shows fairly rapid growth. It is a very hardy variety that can be planted in isolation, in a small hedge or in a border, or in a light woodland, mixed with other hydrangeas, to play with contrasts and shapes. You can also plant it with grasses like Miscanthus, Panicum virgatum Squaw and Stipa. It can also be grown in a very large pot on a terrace. Its flowers, even when faded, are very beautiful in bouquets.