All 18 Hydrangea Varieties in My Cottage Garden Ranked! 54 Hydrangeas After 1-3 Years!

Hey, good morning everybody. Welcome back to my garden. Today's video is going to be all about my hydrangeas. So I have over 52 hydrangeas in my garden so far. I've got 18 different varieties and I'm adding them all the time and so I just want to share with you guys my favorites and the ones that I'm not so crazy about. But for a very new garden and especially for new gardeners, these are the ones that I would recommend. At least they work really well in my garden. I'm in zone 7 in East Tennessee. I have heavy clay but some of these I have potted in containers. Some of these are in the ground and I'm just gonna get right to it. Let's go. So my number one favorite hydrangea in the garden this year would be my limelight hydrangeas and some of you may have already seen my video all about my limelight hydrangea hedge because it has stolen my heart. This is their second year in the garden. I planted them last spring. They are doing phenomenally well. They were three gallon pots. So my number one in the garden, the limelight hydrangea. Now this was kind of a toughie because my number two and my number three are so close neck and neck. It's hard to decide but I am going to go ahead and say that my limelight hydrangea standards are my number two because I know the limelight hydrangea has just been so good for me and I've got four of these standards. I just planted on each side of my driveway and so it's going to make a huge statement as they grow and as they mature. But look at this. It's just so pretty and it adds some vertical interest but yet I can still underplant with lots of things to make it super gorgeous and so the tree form of the limelight hydrangea would be my number two in the garden. This is the blushing bride hydrangea by Endless Summer and it is my number three in my hydrangea rankings because it is absolutely gorgeous. The light pastel pink is phenomenal and I really hope that it stays pink for me. It is pH dependent so it can turn blue and I do have this in a container so it's just some really good potting soil for containers and it's performing amazing. The tag says it can get three to six foot tall and wide and at this point it's definitely already like three foot across. So, I'm hoping that it gets even bigger and makes a huge statement. I want to get more of these for my garden because they are absolutely phenomenal. Check out this girl. She is loving it too. Now, it is a part shade hydrangea. The limelight and limelight standard, those are full sun. They can tolerate full sun. I'm in Tennessee. They get full sun all day long from 11 until like 7 but this one right here, it only gets maybe three-ish hours of sun and it's doing so, so good. So, this is the blushing bride hydrangea. All right, you guys. It doesn't look like a whole lot right now but it is number four on my list of favorite hydrangeas this season. And I just planted these this year and they are performing so well on my south facing wall. This gets hot, intense heat all day long and even the reflection off the back wall. It is just a hot pot area. This is a paniculata. It is a very gorgeous plant but it's something that is going to withstand this heat. I mean, this was a three-gallon pot. It's doing really good. We've had some heat waves come through where it's been like 100 degrees and it's still holding on. You know, with it being its first year in the ground, I am thoroughly impressed and I know it's just going to get better and better with time but this is a little haughty. If you're searching for something that can really withstand this crazy heat, definitely give this one a try. Now, I am in love with these guys. These are the pop star by Endless Summer. They're gorgeous hydrangea with a very open type flower. These are a lace cap hydrangea. This one is just starting to bloom out. I just put it in the ground this year in the heat of the summer. It was a clearance plant but look how incredibly healthy it looks. I've got little buds on it. I've got a few here that are dying back but check that out. This has been a great plant. I have four of these and a flower bed by the house that are doing super well as well but for a first year plant, highly recommend this one. Pop Star by Endless Summer. This tag says it gets 18 to 36 tall, 18 to 36 wide. It also is pH dependent. It needs part shade for sure but the ones by the house, they're starting to get some really long stems so I think they're definitely going to get that full 36 inch as far as width and height go. This one is still quite small although this stem right here is starting to extend out but gorgeous, gorgeous. I love this one. This one right here is the vanilla strawberry hydrangea. It is absolutely gorgeous. It has red stems so these start out white and then they start developing a pink hue that go up the blooms. It's absolutely beautiful. Mine is flopping quite heavily right now but I did just transplant it this year because we had some work to do on this back building up this back wall so I'm actually going to have to transplant it again but it is holding on strong. It has gorgeous blooms even though I transplanted it and it's going to be absolutely stunning with years to come so this one's a great one to have in the garden. This right here is my little lime hydrangea I just put in the ground early this spring. It's performing well here. It's beside my driveway. It does get quite a bit of sun but then it gets shaded around two o'clock in the afternoon so a lot of morning sun. It's kind of floppy but I love the size of it for the bed that it's in right here. This is what it looks like with a really nice fresh bloom. It definitely has the lime green. I never saw it with any white so I think it just goes straight to this lime green shade but look how it's fading into this beautiful color. I think that is just really pretty. So if you love this lime green color and then a fade into this pink shade this is definitely the way to go. It's really lovely and I think it's just going to get better with time again. I just planted it this year so it's doing super well for being the first year in the ground. This is the bobo hydrangea right here. I have two of these I just planted early early this spring. They're looking gorgeous. They're doing really well for their first year so definitely high on the ranking and I would highly recommend these if you want a smaller hydrangea. It's a paniculata. It can take full sun but it also can do okay in partial shade. Yeah it's looking good. Very pretty hydrangea right here. This is a summer crush I just put in the ground this year that's looking super healthy and happy where it is as well. I have two of these by the house that are much larger on their third year but this one is about to bloom out. It has a really bright vibrant pink flower. Absolutely gorgeous. I love this one as well. This is my sweet summer hydrangea standard that I just got in the ground just a week ago or so. It's performing really well so far. It likes where it's at. The blooms are looking good so I think this will definitely be a good one as it continues to grow but those blooms are really lovely. Here's the pufferfish. The blooms are starting to fade now. I have some better footage when it was doing super great and in full bloom. It is doing really well. Being its first year it's quite large also. I'd say it's a good three foot tall and these blooms are very open and airy and so they're quite lovely. This is an old-fashioned hydrangea that I picked up for a couple of dollars on super clearance one year. This is probably a three-year-old hydrangea right here and it's got these blue blooms. There's nothing super fresh on it but the health of the plant is super super healthy and it's getting larger and it's full and it is blooming for me so love the old-fashioned hydrangeas as well. The rest of these are the hydrangeas that I'm not really going to rank at this point because they're just so new and haven't had the chance to really prove themselves. So this is just a look at what I have and then hopefully next year we'll really get to see them succeed. This is the white wedding hydrangea. The blooms are definitely aging. I just got it in the ground this year. It was absolutely gorgeous with huge white blooms. This one is beginning to fade. It's the freshest and I need to cut all of these back but it's being a paniculata. I think it's going to be really pretty here by the greenhouse. This particular one gets four to six foot high and three to five foot wide and we'll see how it does next year. This is my fairy tale bride right now. It's not looking super fabulous. It was gorgeous when I first bought it. I did put it in this pot. I know it'll be prettier next year. It is reblooming which I wasn't expecting so that makes it higher in my ranking but I need to give it some time but it's going to be gorgeous next year so we'll see where that goes. This is a bloomstruck by Endless Summer. I absolutely love the blooms on the bloomstruck. I've not been super successful with bloomstruck. I've tried it many times. This bloom is quite small but it's really really pretty. I love the shade. It has some lime green and then it turns to this really pretty pink color. These are also ph dependent so that color could change and this was just planted this year in this pot as well and it's quite small still. Maybe 18 inches across but it looks healthy so we'll see how it does next year. Here's a bloomstruck that I have in the ground. The last one I showed you was in a container. It was planted this year. It does have a bloom. It's got another one that's about to burst out and it's doing well in this spot but we'll see how they look next year. That's been the struggle is them coming back and looking healthy the next year. I have a Great Gatsby Oakleaf hydrangea that I just put in the ground. Can't rank it this year. It's brand new and then I have two of these Let's Dance Skyview hydrangeas I just put in the ground about the same time as the Pop Star. They're not taking off nearly like the other ones are. I'm not sure what's going on there. I know the Let's Dance Skyview is supposed to be a phenomenal hydrangea so we'll write that one next year also. I can't even begin to judge but I have three incredible hydrangeas I just planted back here in this flower bed a couple months ago but they're teeny teeny tiny. They were quart size tiny little guys but I am so excited to see blooms on them next year so hopefully they do really well through the rest of the summer and through the winter and give us beautiful blooms next year to put in the rankings. Thank you guys so much for touring all of my hydrangeas that I have in my garden. Again my garden is only three years old. A lot of these were just planted this year or maybe last year. For new gardeners or old gardeners alike definitely check out the ones that I have in my top rankings if you don't have them in your garden already and then the ones that didn't actually get put in the rankings because they're too new to judge definitely give them a try too. They're all gorgeous and I cannot wait to see them next year as they can really get their roots established and become beautiful specimens in the garden. Please like this video and comment below what your favorite hydrangea was that I showed you today or maybe what you have in the garden that's doing well. I'd love to hear that as well so thank you guys so much and I hope to see you next time. Happy gardening!