Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Mariesii’ Pollinator and the flowers are remarkable:

and the flowers are remarkable: thick

and site where the fragrant spring bloom and bold yellow fruit can be enjoyed at a safe reach from the thorns

always in wet

Deer leave the fibrous leaves alone

unexpected show in the winter garden

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Mariesii’ Pollinator and the flowers are remarkable:'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