Ruby Slippers Oakleaf Hydrangeas In Bloom - June 2022
This Spring, I planted a pair of Ruby Slippers Oakleaf Hydrangeas in our backyard in the north bed, behind the Weeping Nootka Cypress and right in a colony with a dwarf Alice Oakleaf Hydrangea that I moved over there a couple of seasons ago. These two small Oakleaf Hydrangeas were from the Morton Arboretum Plant Sale this year . As soon as I planted them , the dang rabbits started attacking them, so I kept a little ring of chicken wire around each of them. That seemed to keep the foliage going and now we're seeing the first blooms. See below for a photo of the two Ruby Slippers (in the back) showing their first, tall white blooms. Each of these get four-to-five feet wide, so they have quite a bit of spread yet to come. But, I'm excited to see these first flowers. I'm pretty sure that these are far earlier than they'll be in the coming years - and maybe that's due to the flush of growth ahead of the Morton Aboretum Sale has quickened their cycle this year. Ac