Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Mariesii’ Pollinator and left alone by deer

and left alone by deer

and by one genetic study perhaps three to four hundred distinct individuals in all the world

lanceolate

'Alison' is a sister selection to the famous 'Alice

always in wet

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Mariesii’ Pollinator and left alone by deer'Mariesii' is a piece of hydrangea history still in commerce. In the late 1870s the English plant hunter Charles Maries, collecting in Japan for the famous Veitch nursery, sent home the first lacecap hydrangea to reach the West, at a time when European gardeners knew only the round mopheads. That introduction, named 'Mariesii' in his honor, opened Western eyes to the wild, flat topped grace of the lacecap and became the parent of a whole line of