Hydrangea quercifolia Little Honey

Hydrangea quercifolia Little Honey, known as oakleaf hydrangea, is a variety with sublime golden-yellow foliage, taking on orange-red hues in autumn that are accompanied by large panicles of trailing white flowers towards the end of summer.

This pretty variety forms a bush wider than it is tall, reaching 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in height and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in width. It very elegantly shows off deciduous, very bright foliage, which is intense yellow at bud break before taking on anise-green hues in summer and finally becoming orange-red in autumn. The Little Honey hydrangea develops lovely white panicle flowers elongated, curved, nuanced in ivory-white that colour in autumn with washed pink. It blooms from the month of August.

Very hardy, Hydrangea quercifolia Little Honey appreciates bright exposures (but without direct sunlight) and grows in light and very draining soil. It tolerates limestone.