‘Tuff Stuff Red’ Mountain Hydrangea
Hydrangea serrata ‘SMNMAKTSR’ USPP 28,672
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone
Shrub Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity: 2-3′
Width at Maturity: 2-3′
Spacing: 2-2.5′ apart for solid hedges; 5′ or more apart for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Rounded Mound
Flower Color: Deep Pink fading to Purple and Red
Flower Size: 6 to 7 inch diameter flower clusters
Flowering Period: Reblooming from Early Summer through Fall
Flower Type: Lacecap
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Dark Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: NA
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Part Shade, Morning Sun, Filtered Sun (South) – Sun or Part Shade (North)
Water Needs: Average, Lower when established
Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sand (amend quick draining soil for moisture retention), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well Drained
Soil pH: 6.0 – 8.5 (Moderately Acid to Moderately Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Cold, Heat, Humidity, Insect
Description
An absolutely beautiful reblooming Mountain Hydrangea, ‘Tuff Stuff Red’ features large lacecap clusters of waterlily-like florets in a deep pink. The large, leathery and lustrous dark green leaves on compact mounds 3 feet high and wide provide a wonderful backdrop for the flowers and turn an attractive bronze-red in fall. Tuff Stuff Hydrangeas do better in cold weather than their cousins but will also stand up to the heat to zone 9. Reblooming over a long season, Tuff Stuff Red begins blooming in early summer on last years growth and continues to produce flowers through the fall on new growth through fall. This makes it a fine choice for flowering shrub borders, home foundation plantings, small garden spaces and containers.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 2 to 3 feet tall and wide in a rounded mound, Tuff Stuff Red Hydrangea is ideal for use as an accent in smaller garden spaces and containers or in groupings or as a low hedge in landscape, flowering shrub and woodland borders as well as home foundation plantings. A fine addition to hydrangea gardens, cottage gardens and pink gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 2 to 2.5 feet apart for solid hedges; 5 feet apart for space between plants
Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Planting Zone 5a, where this Hydrangea variety is not reliably winter hardy outdoors, you can enjoy it in containers that can be moved indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
The Tuff Stuff Red Hydrangea is very easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil with average fertility and full sun to part shade in northern zones 5 and 6 and part shade (morning sun with afternoon shade or filtered sun) in southern zones 7 to 9. For best flowering, we suggest 4 hours of direct sun light per day. As with so many other ornamental plants, a constantly soggy or wet soil is problematic.
Get tips for proper pruning time and technique in our article titled How To Prune Various Types Of Hydrangea
Helpful Articles
Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Hydrangea shrubs…
How To Plant Hydrangeas In The Ground & Pots
How To Prune Various Types Of Hydrangea
How To Fertilize And Water Hydrangeas
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