PeeGee Hydrangea
Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’ · a white panicle hydrangea
An old favourite that covers itself in big white flower cones from midsummer, when few shrubs bloom, aging to pink. It's very cold-hardy, takes heat, humidity, salt and city life, and can be grown as a small tree or a hedge. It flowers on new wood, so a hard late-winter prune is fine; deer may browse it.
- Mature size
- 15 × 15 ft
- 4.5 × 4.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Jul–Sep
PeeGee Hydrangea at its mature size
A mature PeeGee Hydrangea grows 10 to 20 feet tall and just as 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: NC State Extension, finegardening.com.
Through the year
What PeeGee Hydrangea looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Apr
Bare arching reddish-brown stems holding dried tan flower cones.
In leaf · May–Jun
Large arching shrub of dark green oval leaves, no flowers.
In flower · Jul–Sep
Very large heavy cones of creamy white flowers weighing the branches down.
Fall · Oct–Nov
Flower cones aged to pink and dusty rose, leaves turning yellow.
Photos
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Growing PeeGee 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 PeeGee Hydrangea, that’s about 15 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 PeeGee 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 Hydrangea
Climbing HydrangeaAll drawn to the same scale.