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Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-8b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 8-10′

Width at Maturity: 6-7′

Spacing: 8’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Dense, Rounded, Upright

Flower Color: Chartreuse, fading to Cream and then to Pink!

Flower Size: Large – up to 12 inches long

Flowering Period: Summer thru Fall

Flower Type: Single in large clusters

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: NA

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Full Sun in North, Part Shade in South

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist

Soil pH: 6.0 – 8.0 (Moderately Acid to Moderately Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Very Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought (when established in part shade), Heat, Humidity, Insect, Sun

Description

As the dog days of late summer set in and most flowering plants are fading out from their summer performances, one shrub will take center stage in your landscape or garden with a commanding presence similar to that of the Chinese Snowball Viburnum: the Limelight Hydrangea. With its huge, 8 to 12 inch long snow cone-shaped flower clusters, Limelight Hydrangea puts on a spectacular show of color in the garden mid-summer through fall. The flowers of Limelight emerge a chartreuse color turning to cream before fading to deep pink in the fall. Soil pH does not effect bloom color. As an added bonus, Limelight blooms make great cut flowers for use in both fresh or dried floral arrangements.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing in an upright form up to 10 feet tall and 6 feet or so wide, the Limelight Hydrangea makes an impressive single trunk tree form specimen. It’s excellent for use in small groupings or to mark each side of an entryway. Also a nice addition to mixed flowering shrub borders, as an accent in home foundation plantings, as a centerpiece in perennial gardens, and in large pots, planters or other containers of 18 inches or more in diameter. A fine addition to white color theme gardens and cut flower and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 8 feet or more apart for space between plants

Growing Preferences

Limelight Hydrangea is exceptionally easy to grow when planted right and in the right spot. Almost any moist but well-drained soil of average fertility will do. Limelight can take the heat at our location here in north-central Georgia, but it’s also exceptionally cold hardy, withstanding even the coldest winter temperatures as far north as USDA Zone 3a, where it will also tolerate full, all day sun. In the South, zones 7 and below, it will tolerate full sun, but we think it performs and looks its best with some filtered sun or dappled shade during the hottest hours of summer afternoons. At least 5 hours of direct sunlight per day or all day lightly filtered sun is suggested for best flowering. Too much shade and plants become floppy with diminished flowering.

Note: Limelight is a Hydrangea paniculata species that produces its flowers from buds that are formed on “new wood” (the current season’s growth). This means you don’t want to prune them in late spring or summer when they’re preparing to bloom.

For proper pruning time and techniques on various types of Hydrangea see: How To Prune Various Types Of Hydrangea

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Hydrangeas.

How To Plant Hydrangeas In The Ground & Pots

How To Prune Various Types Of Hydrangea

How To Fertilize And Water Hydrangeas

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As always with Wilson Brothers, the plant was delivered in a very timely manner and in excellent condition. The Limelight standard is about four feet tall, in full leaf and had a beautiful and healthy root ball. It is planted in a large landscape planter and is loving life and I am loving it. I have ordered from a lot of online growers and no one prepares and packages their plants for shipment as well as Wilson Brothers and for that reason I will always check their website first for my plant needs and wishes.——————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy your purchase for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and wonderful review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

Plant arrived a little damaged from shipping. But I am very happy with Wilson Bros, I will be a customer.—————————————–Sorry for the damage, but glad you are happy. Thanks for the photo and your review. Let us know if there’s ever anything we can help you with. 🙂 – Beth | WBG

Thank you everything was fabulous and I love my trees!!!!——————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

Once again, a quality product shipped in a timely and secure fashion. I’ll be back for more!————————————–We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂

All orders received. All plants and trees in excellent shape. 66 degrees today and all planted. Exhausted. Thank you very much. More later.———————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

Tree arrived carefully packaged and was in excellent condition. Place in a smaller front yard as a focal point. Once the blooms began to appear, people started stopping to ask what type of plant we had. Real eyecatcher.—————————Thanks for the great review! We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG

Plant arrived just in time for my project, and the size was larger than anticipated.———————————–We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG