You would have to contact the European wholesaler if the information does not appear on the Internet Searches. This sometimes appears when you search some govmt websites dealing with patents, trademarks, etc. Canada sometimes gets them ahead of the US.

Deep Purple is a CPVO registred Hydrangea. The Deep Purple is bred and owned by the Danish breeders SCHROLL and the CPVO denomination is SchrollA02. The tradename is Deep Purple.

The Deep Purple is also part of the concept Music Collection under the name Deep Purple Dance.

Is has nothing to do with the variety 'Hobergine'. Completely different genetic.

MDS thx good to know.

Found Schroll's 'Deep Purple' at Sam's Club late today as a Mother's Day gift plant, wrapped in decorative paper & tied with a raffia bow, for $20. Very well grown by One Floral & marked with a hang tag as well as soil line stakes within the pots. "Schroll 88-09-02 Deep Purple" noted on the tag - perhaps the US or Canadian cultivar designation or trademark number? Two gallon size appears to hold 2 separate plants evenly spaced, 15" tall above the top of the pot & 20" wide in total. Very fetching, with strong stems sporting seven 8" blooms plus two 6" blooms, the smaller ones just coloring up from pale green. Multiple broccoli buds forming on leaf shoots from top to bottom & new stem buds at short internodes along both new & older wood. Several colorways from mixed to a saturated "deep purple", so assuming these are soil pH sensitive & perhaps individual plants grown in different soil mixes had been combined together to finish as the mixed colors. From the 10 or so left on a 3-tiered trolley that likely originally held at least fifty, picked a deep purple tinted uniformly with rosy burgundy.

The Deep Purple name rang a memory bell, but couldn't recall growth particulars. The hang tag didn't help out with mature size, expected bloom months or hardiness zone info. Researching this evening, find Schroll specifies "bloom on 1-year wood" for all their Music Collection hydrangeas. http://music-collection.eu/en/product/deep-purple-dance/  Assumed that means 1-year-old wood, but searching further, find it edged out other entries to win the 2015 GLAS Best Plant award in large part for its ability to bloom from new wood. So "blooms on one year wood" actually means "blooms on current season's growth" - first year wood - new wood.

www.growtrade.ie/best-new-plant-at-glas-goes-to-rentes-plants/ 

https://www.dobbies.com/products/plants/shrubs/hydrangea-macrophylla-deep-purple/

https://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/hydrangea-macrophylla-deep-purple-dance-music-collection

Somewhere came across "protection may be needed below 5F to preserve buds", but will have to retrace my steps to assemble a fuller picture. Doubt there's much practical info stateside at this point. Hydrangeas bloomed reliably without winter protection for many years in this countryside 7a garden. Recent back-to-back Polar Vortex Winters allowed no blooms for 2 years, so the ability to bloom both on old & new wood or just new wood became important for new additions.

I'm plain old smitten with 'Deep Purple'. Great color (my naturally acidic soil should help keep that going), strong stems with excellent branching producing many flower heads over a long season that fade & dry attractively, blooms on new wood (as well as old?) add greatly to complete appeal. For a modest investment that I'll separate back to 2 plants to grow on individually, count me in as a very willing guinea pig for 'Deep Purple'. Thrilled to find it!

Gary & friends, check out your local Sam's pronto for this one! Sue

just bought deep purple at Walmart big flats Ny it is gorgeous

Post a picture!

Holy 4 Year Thread Brump

Off to my favorite nursery to buy some annuals AND "window shop" the perfectly curated purple Hydrangeas they have forsale this time of the year.

Speaking of hard to find does any one know where to get Hydrangea Hopcorn?

The schroll 'deep purple' is in my Sam's club right now for $23, in case anyone still wants. They are GORGEOUS 😍

There were no hydrangeas at my Sam's. What city/state are you in that has them? I assume some locations may not order these guys like yours did. :o(

I'm sorry 😞 that was in Panama city, Florida

Juat bought 6 deep purple in my Sam’s club today April 28, 2022, Texas. my soil will not keep it this color but I need to get them in the ground and get eatablished so i am cutting off all the blooms and plant tomorrow. Just bought a load of mushroom compost, hope it helps

I'm off to see what -flats- are out even though I know it's still too early and probably not @ the nursery. Maybe it's just a excuse to eyeball shop those perfectly curarted purple Hydranges that the nurseries have @ this time of the year, for Mother's say. I love seeing them ;-)

The two varieties are NOT the same.

Deep Purple are from our breeding program and protected both at CPVO/UPOV and US Plant Patent.

It is bred in our facility in Demark.

See our varieties here https://schroll-flowers.com/vores-sorter/

The Schroll Team

My blooms fade to white within a few weeks. Is this an issue with the pH of the soil? If so, what is the recommended range.

Blue or purple colored bigleaf hydrangeas do not fade to white. They DO go through some color changes as the flowers mature and age and eventually can become a pale, almost silvery teal or a light tan or a combination. This is a natural biological process of the plant and has nothing to do with soil pH.

Ahh ok rhat makes more sense. I should’ve been more soecific. its def a more tan color

Do you recommend pruning 'spent' blooms?

Really is your choice. I sometimes cut nearly spent stems to dry indoors. Most of the time I just leave them in place overwinter until I do a spring clean up. I kind of like the way they look in winter - flowers (although dry) when not much of anything else is flowering.

If you prefer to do a clean up in fall and like things nice and tidy over winter or you have to apply winter protection, you can remove them. Just cut back the spent flower stem to the next set of buds below the flowerhead. This is just deadheading and won't affect next year's flowering.