Hydrangea Macrophylla 'Endless Summer® BloomStruck' is a moderate growing shrub and perennial plant that can be grown in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 4B through 9A. It matures to an average height of 2 feet to 4 feet and an average width of 3 feet to 4 feet, depending on climate and other environmental factors. It prefers growing in a location that provides full sun, morning sun with afternoon shade, morning shade with afternoon sun or filtered sun and grows best when planted in loam, clay or silt soil that is well drained. In the summer and fall Endless Summer® Bloomstruck Hydrangea produces purple, red and rose pink flowers. The foliage is dark green in color. It attracts visual attention and is resistant to insects, diseases, mildew and heat.

Endless Summer® Bloomstruck Hydrangea can be useful in the landscape along woodland borders, in mass plantings, in foundation plantings, in containers or planters, as a background, in shrub borders, as an accent, as a focal point, in landscape beds or islands or in small groupings and also in cottage gardens or perennial gardens.

Endless Summer® BloomStruck Hydrangea...

Noteworthy Characteristics

As with all Endless Summer varieties, BloomStruck Hydrangea boasts big, beautiful purple or rose-pink blooms all summer long, measuring 3.5 - 5" across. You can change the bloom color to your liking by adjusting soil pH. BloomStruck also has incredibly beautiful red-purple stems, dark green leaves with red petioles and red veins, which give great contrast to your other garden shrubs, perennials and annuals. Because of BloomStruck's extremely strong stems, above average heat tolerance and great disease resistance - especially to powdery mildew - it is a perfect combination of beauty and hardiness for your garden!

Uses

BloomStruck can be grown in containers or garden beds. Use it as a specimen in small garden spaces or in groupings in larger garden spaces. Also great as an accent in foundation plantings, as a low hedge, in flowering shrub borders and in cottage gardens. 

Culture & Care Tips

BloomStruck prefers full sun in northern zones and some afternoon shade or filtered sun the farther south you go. Adapts to various soil stypes however prefers a well-drained moist, loamy soil. Not too wet though...Hydrangea don't like constantly soggy soil. To change the bloom color from pink to purple apply Aluminum Sulfate, and from purple to pink apply lime.

USDA Zones: 4-9

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