Incrediball^{^®} Smooth Hydrangea Hydrangea arborescens

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Hardy Zones
- 3 - 8
Exposure
- Part Sun to Sun
Season
- Summer
Mature Size
- 48 - 60 Inches

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Incrediball^{^®} Smooth Hydrangea Hydrangea arborescens

Part Sun to Sun 48 - 60

Features

Super-sized flowers!

Incrediball hydrangea will make you say WOW - it's an improved version of the garden classic 'Annabelle' hydrangea, but with strong, sturdy stems that don't flop over and extra-large blooms to boot. White flowers begin to appear in mid-summer and open to enormous snowballs, nearly the size of basketballs! They then age to a lush jade green, which persists through frost. It's a super easy, super reliable North American native that grows in chilly USDA zone 3 all the way up to USDA zone 8/9. Plant Incrediball hydrangea in your landscape and find out for yourself just how big, beautiful, and rewarding it can be.

Top reasons to grow Incrediball hydrangea:

- enormous, long-lasting flowers every summer

- Strong, sturdy stems keeps blooms showy and upright

- easy to grow native shrub

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Native to North America

Characteristics

Duration:

Shrub

Shrub Type:

Deciduous

Height Category:

Medium

Garden Height:

48 - 60 Inches

Spacing:

60 - 72 Inches

Spread:

48 - 60 Inches

Flower Colors:

White

Flower Shade:

White

Foliage Colors:

Green

Foliage Shade:

Dark Green

Habit:

Mounded

Container Role:

Thriller

Plant Needs

Light Requirement:

Part Sun to Sun

Maintenance Category:

Easy

Blooms On:

New Wood

Bloom Time:

Early Summer

Bloom Time:

Mid Summer

Bloom Time:

Late Summer

Hardiness Zones:

3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a

Water Category:

Average

Uses:

Cut Flower

Uses:

Dried Flower

Uses:

Landscape

Uses Notes:

Landscapes, naturalizing, hedges, perennial gardens. Also makes a very dramatic cut flower.

Maintenance Notes:

For the biggest, most abundant blooms and strongest stems, plant where it gets at least six hours of sun each day (warmer climates can get away with a bit less). A good layer of shredded bark mulch helps minimize water loss.

As for pruning, cut the entire plant back by about one-third its total height each spring, just as the new growth begins to emerge on stems. This serves to build up a strong, supportive, woody base while also encouraging abundant new growth for plenty of flowers.

If you wish to fertilize, an application of a rose fertilizer in early spring, once the soil has thawed, is sufficient.

Incrediball^® Hydrangea arborescens 'Abetwo' USPP 20,571, Can 4,166

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I have many hydrangeas around my yard and planted this one last year in spring. It initially did beautifully and bloomed gorgeous flowers in summer.. Then we had a couple days of heavy rain. I wasn't concerned because it is supposed to tolerate most areas. However with the clay soil we have in northern IL, the roots must have gotten waterlogged and the entire plant died. I was so disappointed. The rest of my hydrangeas were not affected.

Marginally Adequate Performed below expectations but may be willing to try again.

Barbara J Zarach

Roselle

Illinois

United States

42 weeks ago
I have many hydrangeas around my yard and planted this one last year in spring. It initially did beautifully and bloomed gorgeous flowers in summer.. Then we had a couple days of heavy rain. I wasn't concerned because it is supposed to tolerate most areas. However with the clay soil we have in northern IL, the roots must have gotten waterlogged and the entire plant died. I was so disappointed. The rest of my hydrangeas were not affected.

Marginally Adequate Performed below expectations but may be willing to try again.

Barbara J Zarach

Roselle

Illinois

United States

42 weeks ago
Last year was my first planting. My tiny plants produced gorgeous blooms. I planted 4 good quality hydrangea plants. 3 stayed healthy and prolific, one started yellowing leaves and dropped leaves before its time. I know it will be replaced in spring if it does not start to grow happily on its own.

Outstanding My favorite plant, I recommend to others all the time and explain the reasons why I like it so much.

Karen Albert

Sherwood Park

Alberta

Canada

44 weeks ago
Hello all, I actually loved and I am glad I ordered this plant it was healthy and within it’s first year grew outstanding. I recommend multiple of these for a WOW affect right away when they all bloom.

Outstanding My favorite plant, I recommend to others all the time and explain the reasons why I like it so much.

Hector Marquez

China grove

North Carolina

United States

47 weeks ago
Beautiful plant. Very showy. Blooms not quite as large as advertised. I love it, until it rains. Then the branches lay on the ground or break off. The branches are not as sturdy as reported.

Mine is planted in full sun against a fence.

Outstanding My favorite plant, I recommend to others all the time and explain the reasons why I like it so much.

Jim Chakeres

Columbus

Ohio

United States

2 years ago
Look beautiful

Outstanding My favorite plant, I recommend to others all the time and explain the reasons why I like it so much.

John Gorski

Frankfort

Illinois

United States

3 years ago
Outstanding My favorite plant, I recommend to others all the time and explain the reasons why I like it so much.

virginia reyes

Fresno

California

United States

3 years ago
A beautiful shrub grows freely and I only water when I see them wilt down slightly. Tolerates southern summer sun like a champ. Excessive hot days consistently above 90+ degrees tends to stress the blooms and reduce the size. I fertilize with an all purpose fertilizer about 6 times during the summer. Best food for these garden beauties is Black Kow. Once in the spring once in the fall. Buy as many as u have space for they are beautiful.

Outstanding My favorite plant, I recommend to others all the time and explain the reasons why I like it so much.

Ernest Turman

Sanford

North Carolina

United States

4 years ago
I have 4 of these plants, one in a different location from the others. They grow well, have strong branches that don't need staking. I get flowers every year, but they are not as big as I was led to believe. Except for the stronger branches, the flowers are very similar to my Anabelle hydrangeas. I expected much more of a display.

Satisfactory Average performance, met expectations but not outstanding.

Terri

Toronto

Canada

4 years ago
I am totally in love with this hydrangea....this is my second season with it and I can wait for it to bloom. Last year the flowers were absolutely beautiful and huge. First came a beautiful lime green, then turned brilliant white and stayed like that all summer. I even left the flowers on in the fall when it turned a medium beige and it still looked great. I live in a shore area, intense sun and very windy and it never disappointed. So far this spring it is already 4 feet tall and very full. Definitely recommend it, in fact I am buying two more, one as a gift.

Above Average Superior performance, among my favorites, would recommend to others.

Joyce Owens

Somers Point

New Jersey

United States

4 years ago