‘Summer Crush’ Endless Summer Hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Bailmacfive’ PP 30,359

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 2-3′

Width at Maturity: 2-3′

Spacing: 2.5′ for solid hedges or borders; 6’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Bushy, Dense, Mounding

Flower Color: Raspberry Red in alkaline soil; Purple in acid soil

Flower Size: 1″ in 6″ diameter clusters

Flowering Period: Spring, reblooms in Summer and Fall

Flower Type: Single in large clusters

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: NA

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Part Shade (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 – 8.0 (Moderately Acid to Moderately Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Heat, Humidity, Insect

Description

Naturally compact and more cold hardy than other macrophylla Hydrangeas, ‘Summer Crush’ produces abundant floral-quality blooms ranging from vibrant raspberry red or fuschia to neon purple above a compact dwarf mound of dense, dark green foliage. The flowers come in late spring and then rebloom again in summer through fall. As with most other mophead Hydrangeas, you choose the color. An alkaline to neutral produces the characteristic raspberry red flowers while and acidic soil produces fuschia to purple!

What we really like about Summer Crush Hydrangea here in north central Georgia, where summers can be intensely hot and humid, is the waxy leaves that prevent wilting in the midday heat. The foliage is exceptionally dense and no pruning is necessary. At a size of only 2 to 3 feet tall and wide, there’s no doubt you can find a spot for at least one of these beauties somewhere in your landscape!

Learn more about soil pH and how to adjust it

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing to 2 to 3 feet tall and wide, the Summer Crush Endless Summer Hydrangea is ideal for use as an accent, in small groupings, or as a colorful hedge in home foundation plantings and landscape borders. It is also highly suitable for container culture and is a fine addition to cottage and cut flower gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 2.5 feet apart for solid hedges or borders; 6 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 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 Summer Crush Endless Summer Hydrangeas is very easy to grow in most any average, moist but well-drained soil and sun or part shade. The plants will tolerate full sun in northern zones however appreciate some afternoon shade or filtered sun in warmer southern zones. We suggest at least 5 hours of direct sunlight per day or all day lightly filtered sun for best flowering. You choose the flower color. An alkaline soil produces raspberry red flowers while an acid soil produces purple flowers. Learn more about soil pH and how to adjust it.

Note: Summer Crush Endless Summer is an everblooming Hydrangea macrophylla species that produces its flowers from buds formed on both new and old wood.

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 Endless Summer 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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