Early Blooming | Big Flowers | Reliable Performance - Quick Fire Fab Hydrangea
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Start hydrangea season sooner with this early bloomer! Quick Fire Fab® panicle hydrangea’s massive football-shaped (and sized) blooms cover the entire plant from top to bottom before other hydrangeas’ buds have even begun to swell! Each flower opens a cheery lime color and turns to watermelon from the bottom upward, slowly becoming two-toned. Altogether the show is so fabulous it’s hard to look away. It fits nicely into a low-maintenance garden, as a specimen in your front yard, as foundation plants among favored perennials in a mixed bed, or wherever you need an easy-care colorful shrub.
USDA Zone: 3-8 (-40°F/-40°C)
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun
Height 6-8' (1.8-2.4m)
Width 5-6' (1.5-1.5m)
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Thank you for sharing with us!! Beautiful flowers 💐!!! Happy gardening ❤!!!
Thank you for watching! Happy gardening to you, friend!
Thank you for showing us this wonderful plant 👍
Thank you for watching!
I just bought 3 of these! So excited to get them planted. ❤
Yay! That's very exciting 😄🤗
Love the x-shape of the florets. Thanks for showing us how the plant performs in the different growing conditions.
Happy to! The florets are really lovely ☺ Thank you for watching!
Thank you! I looked for videos about QFF a couple weeks ago and didn’t find much, you made my day!
Yay! So glad to hear that, it's a wonderful hydrangea 😄🤗
I’m excited to hear more about Pinky Winky Prime 🤩
Such a beautiful plant! We'll work on making a video for that one as well 😄
I love the bit of history of this hydrangea!
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Definitely adding Quick Fire Fab to my wish list, but I do have to say that I love my little quick fire even if I don’t get the pretty pink coloring (I’m in zone 7b in TN). They are always covered in pollinators. Thanks for the video, Stacy - please do more!
Thank you for watching, we will certainly do more plant highlight videos ☺ Little Quick Fire is wonderful and you're so right about the pollinators loving it 😍
Beautiful so beautiful! I’m obsessed with hydrangeas and hey you can also make a beautiful wreath if your a tiny bit crafty😉Thanks for sharing Stacy! ❤
A wreath made with these blooms would be so beautiful! Thank you for watching 🤗
Thank you for giving us other options that turn pink in the South! Eastern NC zone 8.
Wahooo! 🤗😄
Zone 7b (NoVa) Thank you for another great video. I love being able to see what plants look like when they are mature, as well as what to expect in different growing conditions! Please keep on making these videosI I personally prefer the original Quick Fire and Little Quick Fire BECAUSE of the fact that they are a lace cap. I have a hedge of limelites, a hedge of little limes, a firelight, and a firelight tidbit. So, the lace caps (along with my mountain hydrangeas and mopeds) have a really nice different texture. Plus, the open varieties tend to attract different types of pollinators. But, the more hydrangea choices the better!!!! What works better in my yard is not what works best for others. Came back for a second to say that Firelight always provides a fabulous fall show of pink color for me here in northern Virginia. I don't know how it does for people in more southernly gardens but it is deftly a winner and I don't think enough people know about how fabulous of a plant it is. I wish I had room to plant more of them.
Wow! Your garden sounds amazing! 😍 You're so right that lacecaps are great for pollinators and so delicate and beautiful! So glad you enjoy these videos and we will certainly keep making more 🤗☀
Collected all PW panicle hydrangeas, goal met! Yay
😍🤗 How awesome! I bet your garden is so beautiful! 😄
@pwcolorchoice it was, but I recently moved to a new house and I have a blank slate to start everything all over, but at least I dug out all my flowers and moved with me. So excited to start something new. Now I have an opportunity to grow my limelight hydrangea hedge, yay
@@pc0086 A whole new space to experiment and design! I bet you will create some stunning plantings ☺
I planted one last fall and I haven't had a bloom yet. Zone 8A in North Georgia. We had a wet spring so I battled with pests and such. Cross my fingers that next year is different.
How much sun does the plant get? Do you have deer in your area? These could both be factors, it could also be the plant is focusing on putting on new growth while it's getting established and blooms during next year 🙂
love it
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So beautiful! I wish there was a more compact variety of QF fab. Is there one?
We do have Tiny Quick Fire and Little Quick Fire that you can check out here, www.provenwinnerscolorchoice.com/all-plants/?jsf=epro-products:sheight&_s=quick%20fire ☺
I am in zone 6A. I planted two quick fire fabs last fall. They are displaying gorgeous blooms now. However, heavy rains made their heads flop down. I hope they will be able to lift their heads after they are dry.
That can happen when the plants are still getting established and developing stronger stems. We recommend pruning the plants in early spring to help encourage those stronger stems. Remove weak branches in the middle and about 1/3 of the height and width. Make cuts just about 1/4 of an inch above a bud. ☺
At the beginning you said mophead but it’s a panicle(?) which you said afterwards(?)
The terminology surrounding plants can sometimes be a little confusing. In this instance, mophead is a term that is used for two things. First, it's a flower shape. Second, it is used as a common name for the plant Hydrangea macrophylla and hybrids crossed with H. macrophylla.
The plant in this video is a Hydrangea paniculata (panicle hydrangea) with dense, mophead blooms. Sometimes folks will use the terms panicle or football-shaped to describe the flower shape, but it's all the same plant. Thanks for the question! 😄
These are beautiful and I have them all.
I do believe you meant panicle hydrangea, not Mophead as you mentioned. 😊
They really are! 😄 So panicle hydrangea is the species of the plant, while mophead refers to the flower shape that the plant has. A panicle hydrangea can either have mophead flowers or lacecap flowers, that will just depend on the variety ☺
Absolutely beautiful!!!
Hopefully PW Australia test if the grow well in Australia and import them from the USA…I’am sure they would handle our hot Summers on the east coast.
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Are they planted in a single row? And how close to plant them to get that look. Thanks
They are planted in a single row and the center of each plant is planted 5' apart 😄
I have two quick fire fabs and before they get to turn this beautiful color the brown up. Not enough water or too much sun? They get about 8 hours of sun zone 6
Could be either, it really depends on your weather and how much water they get. A good 2-3" layer of shredded bark mulch will help a lot as well. And do bear in mind that if this is still a newer planting (planted this year or last), it may simply be that it needs more time to get established before it can develop its best color. 🙂
@@pwcolorchoice Thanks 😊
What is the spacing on your quick fire fab hedges?
These hydrangeas are planted 5' apart 🙂
To get that look how close are those planted together? I have two walls I’d love to make in my yard! Love those! Also, in zone 4 what wld you under plant (perennial, wise) those with? Wld love your ideas!
They are planted 5' apart!
Overall, they pair well with just about anything but I particularly like to match them with plants that can provide interest when hydrangeas don’t - especially winter and spring.
Some ideas:
Small evergreens: microbiota, dwarf arborvitae, groundcover junipers
Spring flowering bulbs: daffodils, tulips, allium, etc.
Spring flowering perennials: bleeding heart, creeping phlox, hellebores, epimedium, pulmonaria
Of course, you can go for broke and go with a summer spectacular for a truly unforgettable planting; fall plants are also a nice choice with paniculatas and quercifolias especially. Some to consider: New England asters, caryopteris, Japanese anemone, ornamental grasses ☺
@@pwcolorchoice I’m going to do a little research thank you for your ideas!
Thank you, Stacy!! I'm having a heck of a time with growing my quick fire fab. I bought 3 of them and they all died. So I bought one more and potted it up. It's still going strong, so far. I keep trying to get help with it but to no avail. I had to order them online since there's not any place around here to buy pw plants. I live in the Texas panhandle, a zone 7a with clay soil. If I plant it in full sun and put lots of water on it (not sure how much water that would mean really) would it work? I need help! Thanks in advance!!
If you are planting panicle hydrangeas in clay soil, it's crucial that you do not amend the soil - and that, if you do, you thoroughly incorporate it with the natural soil until they are essentially indistinguishable from one another. This is easier said than done, which is why I generally recommend clay soil gardeners skip amending altogether since it can lead to serious drainage issues, and panicle hydrangeas cannot handle that. You'll also want to put down a good 2-3" layer of shredded bark mulch, which will conserve water and thereby prevent potential overwatering. In hot climates with clay soil, it can be a fine line to walk between enough water and too much water. 🙂
@@pwcolorchoice thank you for getting back to me! I know y'all are super busy! I'm gonna go ahead and give planting in full sun a try. I guess the worst that can happen is it'll die and I find out it didn't work lol 😆 I can always replace them but put in a different spot. 👍🏻
They grow in California?
I’m in NorCal costal 10B, and mine is doing good in its third year. I had to buy online bc I couldn’t find it locally.
@@nicknash3472 That is so fantastic! 🤩
Yes, but it does depend somewhat on where in California it is, and while it should grow and bloom in all but the hottest, driest areas, how well it colors up will depend on how hot the nights are in your area. 🙂
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