Hydrangea arborescens Pinky Pollen Ring™ - smooth hydrangea
Hydrangea arborescens Pinky Pollen Ring™ - smooth hydrangea
Hydrangea arborescens Pinky Pollen Ring™ - smooth hydrangea
Hydrangea arborescens Pinky Pollen Ring™ - smooth hydrangea

Hydrangea arborescens Pinky Pollen Ring™ - smooth hydrangea

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smooth hydrangea
Hydrangea arborescens Pinky Pollen Ring™

Make your garden come alive with this easy to grow, stunning Hydrangea that features stiff, upright stems, deep green foliage and clouds of pastel pink, lacecap flower disks that will create a frenzy of pollinator activity in your garden! It is the perfect summer pollinator plant!

Hydrangea arborescens 'SMHALP' PP33,289

Benefits

  • Clouds of bloom offer loads of summer nectar for pollinators
  • Superb summer color atop strong, stiff stems
  • Easy to grow and very hardy
  • Loves part shade but tolerates full sun
NATIVE INFO

Native Range

Wooded slopes, ravines and stream banks from New York to Ohio, Missouri, and Oklahoma, south to Georgia, Louisiana, and Arkansas

Map Credit: The Biota of North America 
MAP KEY: Green (native), Teal (native, adventive), Blue (present), Yellow (present & rare), Red (extinct)

INTERESTING FACTS

If you garden in the woods, consider leaving downed trees, piles of brush with large leaves and jumbled piles of rocks to provide shelter for all kinds of wildlife. 

 

GROWING TIPS

Grows best in average to medium moisture, well-drained soil in part shade although it is quite adaptable to different soil types except for very dry. Tolerates more sun in the northern part of its range. Blooms on new wood so you may cut it back in late winter to 1-2’ to keep the shrub looking young and vigorous. 

 

Mature Size: 4-5ft. Tall x 4-5'ft. Wide

Hardiness Zone: 3-9

Sun Exposure: Part Sun

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    • Planting a variety of native trees, shrubs, perennials and vines increases biodiversity and gives wildlife a source for food, cover and nesting
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    • Plant nectar plants in groups, to attract butterflies and other beneficial insects more easily
    • Ask for help if you need it. Most garden centers either have a landscape designer on staff or they can give you a reference of a designer that is adept at native plant wildlife gardening. There will be upfront costs but they are small when compared to having to redo a landscape that wasn't what you really wanted

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    A Special Note About Exposure

    Full sun: Prefers six or more hours of direct sunshine a day
    Partial shade: Thrives in three to six hours of daily sunshine
    Shade: Generally does well with less than three hours of sun per day. Having said that even shade loving plants will struggle in extremely deep shade.

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