HYDRANGEA PANICULATA WHITE LADY TURNING PINK

This year my Hydrangea paniculata White Lady has put on the most amazing display of flowers on its single vigorous stem. There are other stems but they are comparatively weak. I'm thinking of training it into a standard.  Not sure yet. It is growing on a north-facing fence but it still gets morning sunshine (through the slatted fence) and afternoon sunlight (over the rooftops).  The soil tends to be damp there, at the bottom of a slight slope, which hydrangeas (hydra = water) like. 

Hydrangea paniculata White Lady

This year, the flowerheads, eight of them, are about 30cm (12in) in length, easily.  They've been flowering for weeks!



I first planted the Hydrangea paniculata 'White Lady' in 2015, but the refuse collectors kept throwing the dustbin lid on it when it was still quite young and small, and damaging it.  I then protected it from them by placing an obelisk over it temporarily, and the shrub has struggled along, recovering.  It's getting there.



This is what the Royal Horticultural Society has to say about Hydrangea paniculata.  H. paniculata is a deciduous woody plant with toothed, mid to dark green leaves in opposite pairs or clusters of 3, and flowerheads in large, conical panicles, produced in late summer and early autumn, made up of showy, pinkish-white sterile flowers scattered amongst the smaller creamy-white fertile flowers.



Here's another photo, showing the flowerheads turning autumn pink.

Hydrangea paniculata White Lady - turning autumn pink
Beauty in age, right?