Very long flowering big hydrangea please

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I have quite a few different hydrangeas in the back garden, but would now like one for the front garden. I have some tall hedging type bushes and am having them lopped and shaped to allow me to plant a hydrangea that I would like to grow to its full potential. As I don't have any other flowering plants in the front, I would like this hydrangea to flower for as long as possible. I am not hugely fussy on colour (but if there happened to be a choice, I wouldn't choose the pink one) or shape of the flowerheads.

Nothing pink makes it a tall order. 'Limelight' is a lovely hydrangea that flowers for quite a while (July into the autumn). Big heads of creamy white flowers that get a pink tinge later (sorry!). If you like big flower heads you'll have to prune it hard back though. Not sure if that's what you're wanting. Much easier to find a pink one!

Happy to have a pink one, if that is the only choice. Limelight would be lovely.

‘Black Steel Zambia’ might be a good choice then. It's bright pink but holds its colour (doesn't do much of that nasty fading thing that so many hydrangeas do) and doesn't want much pruning. A bit pricey - £30 from Crocus. Have a look at 'Blueberry cheesecake ' too - it is a bit different - you might like it, it's less pink.

Thank you Unremarkable. I really like both of them. I'm just wondering if they will grow to be big enough shrubs. I'm realizing that when I said 'big', that could be taken to mean big blooms, but what I should have said was a tall, wide shrub. It is to sit in between some tall hedging like bushes, so I need something that will sort of fill a big space.

dont dismiss pink hydrangeas OP. You can change the colour to varying depths of blue by changing the acidity of the soil its in. Its magic, but in fact very easy to do. Whites you cant change colour at all. Just the pink and blue ones (blue to pink is the other way re alkalinity).

oh, and this is a warning to anyone who may have bought a pink or blue one, and found it changed colour. Its your soil acidity levels.

Limelight grows to about 1m by 1m and that's after a couple of years so it doesn't grow that big. At the moment new varieties seems to be a bit smaller - I guess you might be better off choosing a standard 'old style' hydrangea if you want something really big.

I've just planted a limelight hedge, they're going brilliantly so far. Green-white pointy heads.

I was trying to decide on that or Annabelle which has big heads, in the end I found a cheap source of the Limelight and that helped make my mind up!!!