Panicle Hydrangea
Hydrangea paniculata
The most sun-loving and cold-hardy hydrangea, with big cones of creamy white flowers from midsummer into fall that age to pink, a showy specimen or hedge when few shrubs bloom. It flowers on new wood, so prune hard in late winter if you like. Give it full sun or light afternoon shade; deer may browse it.
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- Mature size
- 11 × 9 ft
- 3.5 × 2.7 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Jul–Sep
Panicle Hydrangea at its mature size
A mature Panicle Hydrangea grows to about 11 ft tall and 9 ft wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Missouri Botanical Garden.
Through the year
What Panicle Hydrangea looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Apr
Bare upright woody stems holding dried tan flower cones.
In leaf · May–Jun
Upright-rounded shrub of dark green oval leaves, no flowers.
In flower · Jul–Sep
Large upright cones of lime-green to white flowers.
Fall · Oct–Nov
Flower cones aged to dusty pink and burgundy, leaves still mostly green.
Photos
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Growing Panicle Hydrangea
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Hedge, specimen, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- China and Japan
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Panicle Hydrangea, that’s about 9 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Panicle Hydrangea in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hydrangeas
Limelight Hydrangea
Panicle Hydrangea
PeeGee HydrangeaAll drawn to the same scale.