Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Mariesii’ Pollinator and carries the frilled trumpet

and carries the frilled trumpet flowers of one parent on the willowy

'Alison' is a sister selection to the famous 'Alice

and the flowers are remarkable: thick

Livestock that graze the plant in the South American homeland develop a slow

The tree earns a place in the working landscape as much as the garden

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Mariesii’ Pollinator and carries the frilled trumpet'Mariesii' is a piece of hydrangea history still in commerce. In the late 1870s the English plant hunter Charles Maries, collecting in Japan for the famous Veitch nursery, sent home the first lacecap hydrangea to reach the West, at a time when European gardeners knew only the round mopheads. That introduction, named 'Mariesii' in his honor, opened Western eyes to the wild, flat topped grace of the lacecap and became the parent of a whole line of