Bluebird Lacecap Hydrangea

Hydrangea serrata ‘Blue Bird’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-8a Find Your Zone

Shrub Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 5-6′

Width at Maturity: 4-6′

Spacing: 3-4′ apart for solid hedges; 8’or more apart for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Bushy, Dense, Globose/Round, Mounding

Flower Color: Blue, White

Flower Size: Large – up to 6-8″ inch diameter

Flowering Period: Summer

Flower Type: Lacecap

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: NA

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Part Shade, Morning Sun, Filtered Sun (South) – Sun or Part Shade (North)

Water Needs: Average, Lower when established

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

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist

Soil pH: 6.0 – 8.5 (Moderately Acid to Moderately Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

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

Description

A beautiful sight to behold in full bloom, the Bluebird Hydrangea produces LOADS of some of the most beautiful flowers we’ve ever seen on a Hydrangea. The lacecap flowers consist of hummingbird-blue center florets surrounded by a ring of light lavender-blue flowers. The flowers will bloom a stronger blue in acid soils. Aluminum sulfate can be applied to increase the acidity of the soil. The leaves of Bluebird Hydrangea are large and bright green in color, and turn to an attractive red in fall.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 5 to 6 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet wide in a rounded mound, Bluebird Hydrangea can be grown in garden beds or containers. It is ideal for use as a specimen or accent in home foundation plantings, flowering shrub borders and perennial gardens. In larger landscape spaces it is especially dramatic in small to large groupings or in straight or staggered rows as a colorful hedge.

Suggested Spacing: 3 to 4 feet apart for solid hedges; 8 feet or more apart for space between plants

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Planting Zone 4a, where this Hydrangea variety is not reliably winter hardy outdoors, you can enjoy it in containers that can be moved indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

The Bluebird Hydrangea is very easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil with average fertility and full sun to part shade in northern zones and part shade (morning sun with afternoon shade or filtered sun) in southern zones. For best flowering, we suggest 4 hours of direct sun light per day. As with so many other ornamental plants, a constantly soggy or wet soil is problematic. Flower color is your choice. Acidic soils will make blue flowers while a neutral to slightly alkaline soil will make pink flowers.

Get tips for proper pruning time and technique in our article titled 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, fertilize, prune and water Hydrangea shrubs…

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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Everything I have ordered has been wonderful. I had some problems with the Blue Bird Hydrangeas but it was not with how they came to me but probably how I planted them. I continue to order from Wilson Brothers because I have every confidence in the quality of the plants.——————————————–I hope the Bluebird Hydrangeas recover. Keep us posted. 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

Beautiful healthy plants with plenty of buds. Can’t wait till they bloom!—————————————–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