Hope you enjoy them. I like the shade of pink in the pictures; nope it is a real color and not a retouched shade of pink. I saw a few for sale locally with white blooms and forgot all about stopping by again to see them turn their light shade of pink... assuming they are not sold before I visit. Ha!

I saw them over the past couple of weeks at a local nursery. They seem to have a nice rich color when compared to the various other paniculatas there, but it is difficult to be sure about color and form until they are settled in to a final planting site. They seemed midway between the floppiness of something like Vanilla Strawberry and one of the stiffer stemmed forms such as Quickfire. I debated getting one, but ended up not. There is still time once I have planted the plants that I did get If I change my mind.

Yeah, it will be interesting to see how it compares to VS.

I have a new one, just a few small stems but 2 flowers appeared this year. Not a pretty pink; more of a mauve. But I'll be patient and hope that as shrub matures, the flowers will look better.

That's what happened with Pinky Winky.

I visited the nursery with Zinfins minutes ago. They still had two. Still flopped since my prev visit. But turning brown from a white bloom color. Only one bloom had a little pink. Paniculatas just do not do well here. Sigh. ;0( VSs does the same thing. Early blooming Little QF is promising though.