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Incrediball Same as last year, this cultivated plant is doing its thing again in the garden. The nickname "Incrediball" comes from its excessive flowering. It produces such heavy flower heads that the stem is visibly under duress, and incidentally entire branches may simply snap off. I never recorded the bloom time, but from recollection they stay this way for a long time, at least 2 or 3 months. Heesch,Hydrangea arborescens,Sevenbark Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Incrediball

Same as last year, this cultivated plant is doing its thing again in the garden. The nickname "Incrediball" comes from its excessive flowering. It produces such heavy flower heads that the stem is visibly under duress, and incidentally entire branches may simply snap off. I never recorded the bloom time, but from recollection they stay this way for a long time, at least 2 or 3 months.

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  1. View Christine Young's profile
    Christine Young
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    I said this last year, but I love hydrangeas. Is this in your yard? I imagine the pollinators must love it. Posted 4 years ago
    1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
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      Yes this is in our yard. But it seems half the neighborhood has the same plant lol.
      And yes, it does attract pollinators, but given the amount of flowers available, I was hoping for even more.       Posted 4 years ago
      1. View Christine Young's profile
        Christine Young
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        Native to the eastern US, but I don't have any photos of it and never see hydrangeas growing wild. Posted 4 years ago
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    Beautiful! I like the cone shape flowerheads of this type, being used to the flatter, more disc shape flowerheads. And bringing forth such memories of European gardens (despite not a native). Indeed, my father grew a climbing hydrangea to the side and over the front door in the house where I grew up. Is that a hydrangea also at the back Ferdy, incredible eye-catching pink. Posted 4 years ago
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      Thanks, Ruth. Well spotted in the back :)

      Mophead Hydrangea, Heesch, Netherlands Cultivated, from our garden. An exceptionally vivid plant, yet in our experience does not bloom very long.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/103191/mophead_hydrangea_-_flowers_closuep_heesch_netherlands.html Europe,Heesch,Hydrangea macrophylla,Mophead Hydrangea,Netherlands,World
       Posted 4 years ago, modified 4 years ago
      1. View Ruth Spigelman's profile
        Ruth Spigelman
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        Ah yes! That's the name..mophead hydrangea. Lit a bulb in my memory banks. I've also never seen one of this striking colour before, thanks! Posted 4 years ago

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The Sevenbark

''Hydrangea arborescens'', commonly known as smooth hydrangea, wild hydrangea, sevenbark, or in some cases, sheep flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae. It is a small- to medium-sized, deciduous shrub up to 3 m tall that is native to the eastern United States.

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  • NIKON D850
  • f/1.4
  • 1/2500s
  • ISO125
  • 85mm