Hydrangea ‘French Bolero’

Just like its award winning cousin, Hydrangea ‘Runaway Bride’, this exciting hybrid marries the best qualities of both of its parent plants. H. scandens gives it a spreading, free-free-flowering habit, producing flower buds along the length of each stem. H. macrophylla gives it large, colour changing blooms which are pink on alkaline soils and blue in acid soil. Hydrangea ‘French Bolero’ is a ‘must-have’ shrub, bringing elegance and beauty to your summer borders. With a neat spreading habit, it makes a fine specimen plant for your patio pots too. Height and spread: 100cm (39″).

Plant Size Height Up to 100cm (39in)
Spread Up to 100cm (39in)

Hardiness & Longevity Hardy Shrub

Ideal For cut flower garden patio specimen plant cottage gardens woodland garden

Position In sun or semi shade dappled shade

Codes
1 x 6 Litre Potted Plant (KF2561)
2 x 13cm Potted Plants (KB7627)
1 x 13cm Potted Plant (KB6995)

Hydrangeas prefers a position in shade or semi-shade, with shelter from cold, drying winds. Grow hydrangea plants in any rich fertile, moist soil. Improve the soil prior to planting by adding with plenty of well rotted manure or garden compost, ensuring that it is mixed in thoroughly and deeply. Alternatively, plant Hydrangea macrophylla in patio containers in ericaceous compost.

This variety of Hydrangea is a particularly heavy feeder, but demands less water than most macrophylla cultivars. Feed and water regularly, but avoid waterlogging the soil.

Leave the faded hydrangea flower heads in place until the new buds swell in spring to protect the delicate buds from frost damage.

Prune the old stems after flowering, leaving the new growth in situ, as this Hydrangea flowers on new growth unlike most others. After pruning hydrangeas, apply a mulch of well rotted manure or compost around the base of the plant. Caution: All parts of hydrangea will upset the stomach if eaten. The foliage may also aggravate skin allergies.

Seeds and garden supplies will normally be delivered within the time period stated against each product as detailed above. Plants, bulbs, corms, tubers, shrubs, trees, potatoes, etc. are delivered at the appropriate time for planting or potting on. Delivery times will be stated on the product page above, or in your order acknowledgement page and email.

Orders for packets of seed incur a delivery charge of £2.99.

Orders which include any other products will incur a delivery charge of £6.99.

Where an order includes both packets of seeds and other products, a maximum delivery charge of £7.99 will apply – regardless of the number of items ordered.

Large items may incur a higher delivery charge – this will be displayed in your shopping basket.

Please see our Delivery page for further details, and more information on different charges that may apply to certain destinations.

For more information on how we send your plants please visit our Helpful Guide on plant sizes.

Hydrangea ‘French Bolero’

Hot on the heels of award winning Hydrangea ‘Runaway Bride’, this brand new variety shares many of its best characteristics! Flowers are borne along the length of each stem, bursting from strong lateral buds to create the most free-flowering display you’ve ever seen! Hydrangea ‘French Bolero’ is a modern hybrid of 2 species, H. scandens and H. macrophllya – and just like its second parent, the blooms are large, changing colour with the acidity of the soil. In alkaline soils the blooms are pink, while acid soil will produce shades of purple and blue. With a compact, spreading habit, this deciduous shrub is perfect for lightly shaded borders, and makes an elegant patio plant. Height and spread: 100cm (39″).

Plant height and spread is seasonal therefore we list by pot size rather than a defined plant size. The height and spread of the plant delivered will vary depending on the season, meaning arrival images are an indication only.

2 x 13cm Potted Plants (KB7627)

1 x 13cm Potted Plant (KB6995)

1 x 6 Litre Potted Plant (KF2561)

Hydrangeas prefers a position in shade or semi-shade, with shelter from cold, drying winds. Grow hydrangea plants in any rich fertile, moist soil. Improve the soil prior to planting by adding with plenty of well rotted manure or garden compost, ensuring that it is mixed in thoroughly and deeply. Alternatively, plant Hydrangea macrophylla in patio containers in ericaceous compost.

This variety of Hydrangea is a particularly heavy feeder, but demands less water than most macrophylla cultivars. Feed and water regularly, but avoid waterlogging the soil.

Leave the faded hydrangea flower heads in place until the new buds swell in spring to protect the delicate buds from frost damage.

Prune the old stems after flowering, leaving the new growth in situ, as this Hydrangea flowers on new growth unlike most others. After pruning hydrangeas, apply a mulch of well rotted manure or compost around the base of the plant. Caution: All parts of hydrangea will upset the stomach if eaten. The foliage may also aggravate skin allergies.

Caution: irritant to skin and eyes,harmful if eaten

Seeds and garden supplies will normally be delivered within the time period stated against each product as detailed above. Plants, bulbs, corms, tubers, shrubs, trees, potatoes, etc. are delivered at the appropriate time for planting or potting on. Delivery times will be stated on the product page above, or in your order acknowledgement page and email.

Orders for packets of seed incur a delivery charge of £2.99.

Orders which include any other products will incur a delivery charge of £6.99.

Where an order includes both packets of seeds and other products, a maximum delivery charge of £7.99 will apply – regardless of the number of items ordered.

Large items may incur a higher delivery charge – this will be displayed in your shopping basket.

Please see our Delivery page for further details, and more information on different charges that may apply to certain destinations.

For more information on how we send your plants please visit our Helpful Guide on plant sizes.