Fire light starts out white before it shifts to pink.

Yeah, I know they start off as white. The Paniculata's don't really show up @ the nursery until like late July /August as I think they prefer to sell them with blooms on them , so it's hard to make a (in person see if for yourself real life) decision, but in google pics, etc, I dunno how I feel about the mid color bloom

I have both little lime and limelight. My little lime’s blooms are smaller, greener, and less conical than limelight’s. Not sure how much sunlight affects the color of the blooms—

my little lime is in part shade and the limelight is in full sun.

Where are you a1an? I know I have asked this before**, but it does really make a difference when one is discussing plants and gardening. How these panicled hydrangeas respond with color changes depends a lot on location. In New England and much of the Midwest, with cooler night temperatures than in many areas as well as regular rain, they tend to get the best colors. Farther south they often don’t get good pink color at all and may go straight from white to brown, even the ones developed for good pink shades. So if you are in an area with warm nights it may not matter at all.

** Just add it after a1an by clicking on My Houzz, then Edit profile and settings, and then add it after First Name (publicly displayed). If you do it this way it will show up whether someone accesses your comments via Gardenweb or Houzz.

I have a quick fire, I was worry about the "pinks" being too soft, I don't know if its the spot where she is but she is a beautiful burgundy-ish color, just beautiful! Just a thought!

PHled - yes, that is how I remember seeing LL at the nurserys. just a bit more greener and what I considered smaller than LL. For shape/bloom size, how does FL compare between little L vs. LL.

NHB. Zone has always been displayed in my profile but I see the setting to tick

Plenty of potted macs at the nurseries. No firelight treeform, but there was a couple of B&B LimeLights for a ~quickfire~ sale price of $375 per tree. I don't remember paying close to that much for my #10's, but that was a time period where I did not bother looking at prices cause if I did, I would probably not have half the stuff I own - eeks .Methinks they are just not mature enough in availability for treeform

I see at least one bareroot grower out west growing Fire Light hydrangea trees. Spring potted stock would be available mid-late summer in bloom.

Hi PL. Are you in the trades and you see this in your ~internal~ access options. Just curious. thx

I like trees so I go to the bigtree growers websites to browse and see what's new. Many make their catalogs available without needing special access. Just happened to notice Robinson lists Fire Light trees.

Did my final searching yesterday, calling a nursery wholesale who only deals with the trades. In turn, he called 4 of the growers they deal with and nada on Firelight. I'm thinking either it's just not mature enough (even though I would say half of the treeforms I've seen are budded).