A Repeat Blooming Hydrangea with Double Blooms

Hydrangea Forever and Ever Double Pink is a beautiful new introduction for 2006 that comes from a Japanese breeder and is very floriferous and long-blooming.

Like the widely popular Endless Summer Hydrangea, Forever and Ever Double Pink blooms on both old and new wood and blooms repeatedly throughout the season. Double pink's unique multi-petalled flowers create a billowy mound of full 6 inch clusters that almost cover the plant when it blooms. The mounding habit reaches about 24-30" tall and grows to about 36" wide.

Forever and Ever Double Pink's compact habit makes it perfect for containers or small gardens. The fact that it blooms on new wood makes it great for northern areas where it is traditionally difficult to have hydrangeas bloom.

Planting and Care

• For best results plant in early spring to late summer.
• Prefers an area with morning sun and afternoon shade.
• Will perform best in moist, but not wet, soil. Add Soil Moist if you think the soil is too dry.
• Plant so the top of the root ball is a half inch below the surface of the soil.
• For the best pink-toned blooms, use Chesapeake Blue Crab Compost, with a handful of Bulb-Tone and a handful of Lime at planting.
• Top-dress with a handful of Bulb-Tone and, in acid soils, a handful of Lime every year in late November and early March.
• Hardy in zones 5 to 9.

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Alan Summers

Alan Summers, president of Carroll Gardens, Inc., has over 30 years experience in gardening and landscape design. He has made Carroll Gardens one of America?s preeminent nurseries, having introduced more than 20 new perennials and woody shrubs over the years and reintroduced numerous ?lost? cultivars back to American gardeners.

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