Buy Hydrangea macrophylla Miss Saori™ PP26657

Miss Saori bigleaf hydrangea has created quite a stir amongst hydrangea lovers because of not-one-but-two beautiful features. In the spring new growth on Miss Saori is burgundy and that's sensational, but then the "different" mophead flowers open and we swoon. The sterile florets have double rows of sepals. These sepals are cream/white with a bright pink rim. However, suspend that description because Miss Saori's flowers are like hair - they change a lot. While never remotely having a bad hair day, they vary depending on climate and age. In warmer climates there is more cream; in cooler climates there is more pink. Then, with age, the pink rim bleeds further into the sepals. The final flower pic shows an antiquing Miss Saori flower. To complicate matters, here in the bona fide heat of zone 8a, while the first leaf flush in spring is burgundy, consecutive flushes are suppressed to green with a burgundy leaf margin (the second leaf pic shows this). Our unrelenting heat and high nighttime temps are just too hot to maintain the vivid leaf color throughout the growing season. However, the summer foliage does maintain a nice dark green color in zone 8a, if not the purple y'all will get in cooler climates (zone 7a and cooler). In the autumn, the foliage turns red. Red! It's lovely. The last two pictures exhibit the red fall color. We're told this is cold hardy to 6a, but Miss Saori is so new that we don't know from our own experience. We would love to hear from you about this matter. In the autumn foliage turns red and is decidedly quite pretty, as you can see for yourself in the last two leafs pics if you scroll through them.

Miss Saori' is a superlative new hydrangea that won the coveted Plant of the Year Award at the 2014 Chelsea Garden Show. She produces exquisite mopheads of double florets in white with perfect, glowing, rose-pink picotee edges on old and new wood from June until frost on 3x3 foot mounds perfect for gardens and containers. Foliage emerges burgundy-red in spring, turns to green, then back to burgundy-red in summer and fall. We are proud to likely be the first nursery in North America to offer this amazing plant in 2015.