Hydrangea serrata 'Woodlander' 26/5 Restock softening the base of a

softening the base of a wall

The fragrant orange spikes are magnets for butterflies and hummingbirds

saturated violet-purple around a tight golden disk

Camellia japonica was named by Linnaeus for the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel and reached English gardens before 1739

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Hydrangea serrata 'Woodlander' 26/5 Restock softening the base of aHydrangea serrata 'Woodlander' is a Woodlanders introduction with a story, a compact, small leaved mountain hydrangea grown from seed collected at the Chollipo Arboretum in Korea and selected here for real garden charm. Daintier than the big bigleaf hydrangeas, this is a refined shrub of two to four feet, carrying flat lacecap flower heads of clear blue in acid soil, ringed with showy sterile florets around a center of tiny fertile ones. The serrated