Try this link.
I have Cityline PW Venice and Vienna coming from a nursery here so your area should be ok.

You might also look at Endless Summer which is the most popular in this area. That could go in the middle flanked by Cityline of which Paris is the largest.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cityline

I found several of the Cityline Hydrangeas today at my local Home Depot (Silver Spring, MD). I got the 3 gallon Cityline Paris for $20.00. It already has buds on it!!! Christy :)

Christy,
You'll not be disappointed!
Here she is
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Beautiful!!! Surely we can always find a a front/prime, real estate, for this petite beauties. If they be, true-blooded z5 hardy. I'll perhaps wait for comments from like-zone, experienced owners.

TIA!
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Wow!!! I can't wait :) Christy

George, did it overwinter for you in the ground? I lost 2 Hydrangeas this winter: 'Paris' and 'Berlin'. 'Paris' was planted in the garden, 'Berlin' was potted. Even marginally hardy Serratas and oakleaf babies (all newly planted or potted) survived. I wonder if it is a coincidence...
Christy, thank for mentioning that Home Depot. For some reason, 2 other Home Depot stores in our area do not have them. I used a coupon (buy one shrub get one free) and bought 'Paris' and Weigela "Wine and Roses" for $20 there... I hope this time I'll have better luck with them...

I had no problems with my "Berlin" (2 young plants) that I did not overwinter...they are leafing out beautiful..but I'm on a coast in zone 7...pretty good territory supposedly for hydrangea

alina,
in my acidic soil I can't keep anything even remotely pink, forget about red. Therefore all Cityline plants were overwintered in pots. They did superbly well and now all in a 'broccoli' stage. Since I have 2 of the Paris, I might plant one in a ground this year in order to see how realy hardy it is.

Thanks George,
I understand that you protect your pots placing them in a garage or basement? So that does not answer the question about their hardiness in our zone? Our soil is also slightly acidic. I would not mind having purple flowers though. Do you add lime to the potting medium to keep it alkaline?

So, if I add Lime to my container pot of Cityline Paris, I should get even redder buds??? Christy :)

Christy,
supposedly, yes.
But...by adding lime you will be increasing soil pH and that may lead to iron chlorosis, especialy in pots where outside sourse of soluble iron is absent.
For all my potted reds I prepare potting medium's with pH of 7.2-7.3 and eventhough sometimes by the end of the second growing year application of liquid iron is necessary. I have to replace soil on third year for all reds while potted blues (pH 5.2-5.5) may live without soil replacement for 3-4 years.
I had an intentions to experiment with pH of 7.5+ this year, but never got to it.
Maybe later in a season or next year :-)

I recently attended a lecture on hydrangeas and the person from the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania said that the 'Cityline' Series of hydrangeas are NOT winter hardy and must be taken indoors to say an unheated garage over the winter for protection.

I have a potted Cityline Paris that I just bought this spring and I have been very happy with it. It is still quite small but it is blooming very nicely. It is planted in a pot and I will overwinter it in my garage so I can't answer the question about hardiness.

• Very late jumping into this conversation but I have a Cityline Paris, It's in the ground and when newly planted it survived 2 very harsh winters here in Maryland. It only produced a single bloom each of it's first two years but year 3 it is full of bright red/pink blooms and is gorgeous! I have 2 Prove Winners, Let's Dance Moonlight, that are lackluster to say the least. I will replace them with 2 more CItyline H's.

springwood_gardens, I have to say I always enjoy reading your posts, they are always informative. My 'Pistachio', called 'Glam Rock' in the UK has buds on it now and once it blooms, I will post a photo. 'Strawberries & Cream' has some of its flowers open and I bought those from Home Depot last year. Again once, they all open, I will post a photo of them. I am glad that both those varieties are remontant-- can bloom on new wood.

Thank You Springwood Gardens for the response. We are a zone 7 here in MD. The 2 winters that played havoc on my hydrangeas were abnormally harsh, colder than my what my daughter in MA was experiencing. Those winter's killed all old wood on all my H's, even my 20 year old Nikkos. This 3rd year out all my H's are finally getting their size back but only my CItyline Paris, limelight paniculata, and a Blue Billow are producing adequate blooms. I will take your suggestions to my local nursery for my replacement H's. Thank You!

Me and the fam were happy that a local nursery we frequent was willing to part with 2 City line Paris' for half price; my wife is partial to pink everything. I have done a little research and have found that they may have trouble in my heavy clay overwinter. I am going to cage them and fill the cages with leaves and grass clippings to hopefully keep the old wood alive.

This forum doesn't seem to have a lot of personal info about them, so I too welcome a discussion, no matter how old the thread is.

Oh and I already had to move them from a largely sunny location to a little shadier spot. We will see how the remainder of the summer goes for them.

My cityline is very close to my front porch where it receives 4-5 hours of the hottest sun of the day. It has yet to wilt. The location may be a bit protected in the winter from the most severe weather and cold, but it is the same bed as the 2 Let's Dance H's that have performed terribly. Good luck with your Cityline Paris plants. I am enjoying mine.

My leaves were scorching. May have been a little fatigue from transplanting a about a month ago, but I had to move them. They were in 8+ hours a day.

Always glad to be of help! :)

Paris does seem to be quietly making a run at being a reliable red/magenta entry, which the market is still kind of lacking. I haven't bought one (yet), and it looks like all my local Lowe's has sold them out, but it's nice to see people relatively enjoying theirs. I read somewhere that Berlin can bloom intermittently on new wood, but the colors on that one look kind of wishy-washy to me.

A side note about Blue Billow... An improved version called "Annie's Blue" has begun making appearances at nurseries in 2015. It blooms on old wood but is supposed to be more free-flowering than Blue Billow.

I decided to pot my city line hydrangeas because I didn't have a "perfect spot" for them in the ground. I couldn't find the right combination of sun/shade/drainage, so a pit on the porch will have to do.

Also, they only receive about 3 hours of sun in the early morning, so we will see if that is enough to sustain the plant.