Reminds me of Hydrangea paniculata Chantilly Lace but if it came from a swap, it could be a hybrid or grown from seed too. The blooms are not too developed yet so check if any other paniculata with ”lace” in the name also fits.

George brought some of his own hybrids to swaps. I have one that he wanted to 'torture test' for hardiness. I don't remember the cross, but he had a few of them.

That George lol! I have had several of his "own" plants in my garden. It's very possible this is one of his as well.

I just remembered I have some photos of this hydrangea from last August that might further help.

I'm thinking this was from Marty, if she's still around the forums (haven't "seen" her in quite some time) but I know she gave me a Quick Fire as well so I may be thinking of that (not that I think THIS hydrangea is the Quick Fire - I did label that one!).

Thanks for any and all attempts!

:)

Dee

Oops, just found one from last July - flowers still white but a bit more developed

Thanks everyone!

Speaking of George, does anyone know whatever happened to him?

No I wish I did. He was so wonderful. And fun. Last I heard - and this was YEARS ago, he was selling his house, but I don't know if he was moving locally or not. I sure wish he would pop in and say hello. And I bet HE could identify my hydrangea lol!

:)

Dee

Thank you all. Anyone else have any ideas? I was hoping someone from the New England forum from a few years back might be around to help, but unfortunately that once-very-active group seems to have moved on.

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Dee

Dee, your paniculata does not look familiar to me and is far less full than any of the laciest commercial varieties, so I imagine that it is someone’s own selection.

Unfortunately, the New England forum has lost some folks to the changes in hosting, especially some of the difficulties in posting photos for a while, as well as the ads that Houzz has. It is a fairly clunky interface. And unfortunately we are losing members to age, illness, and death. But there are some newer folks posting as well.

Babs, and it feeds on itself too. Once there are less people posting, the discussions are too slow and that just pushes more people away. I find the interface for Houzz the most annoying site I have to interact with online. I went a week recently with no notifications. I think a lot of people moved to Facebook. I don't find gardening groups on Facebook all that appealing. I've tried a few.

Plus, it used to be before Houzz took over GW, that if you googled any gardening topic, GW posts would be right at the top and many many of them. You would get pages of them. That doesn't happen any more and I wonder if that used to bring in new gardeners. I have no idea what changed to cause that, but it's very noticeable.

There're so many things that have changed. When Houzz took over, they must have brought their own cut rate programmers with them. Simple things like the title of a thread being displayed in bold and being brought to the top as 'newest first', if someone has posted on that thread since the last time I was in the thread.

Now, if I click on a bolded title and go to the bottom of the thread, I might see that it was ME that posted last. I don't care to have the title bolded and bought to the top unless it was someone else that added to the thread.

You used to be able to click on a picture and without closing it, click on another and the first would close and the one clicked would open. Not anymore.

I find this all extremely frustrating. And I could go on and on about all the clunkiness of this new format.

My notifications too have been hit or miss, sometimes never getting notified.

I get the feeling that the notification process does not notify of all responses if responses are clustered close together time-wise. I have not had problems posting pictures but I rarely post pictures anyway. The biggest Houzz three problems so far have been (1) not displaying when a post occurred exactly. Instead of saying something like July 5, 2022 09:54AM it now says either "3 weeks ago" or "2 years ago" and in a gardening website, you need to know exactly, in order to put the comment in the proper context. On old posts, I cannot tell if the problem happened in the spring, summer etc. (2) The next error was dropping the display of the location of the poster. (3) the third one is that if logged on under the www.houzz.com, you cannot do searches only in a specific forum. I have to switch to www.gardenweb.com to do that instead. But now, we am going off topic, something other than diggerdee's topic....

I agree with the post date not being displayed anymore, you don't know what time of year it was posted.

Yes and not being able to search in one specific forum is worthless imo.

Umm, any hydrangea-related comments lol?

Thanks!

:)

Dee

As a matter of fact, yes!

I've been working the last couple of seasons to convert, or try to, into a tree form, one of my Hydrangea paniculata (of some unknown sort).

The flowers may still flop but at least they shouldn't be dragging on the ground (I hope). :)

Excuse the deer deterrent, I just lost some blooms the other night.

Okay, lol, any hydrangea-related comments pertaining to the ID of my hydrangea? :)

Bill, funny you posted that. I was just out the other day looking at a hydrangea I have that I think is a Limelight. It's quite gangly and sprawling, and I've been thinking of pruning it into a tree form - it's already a good 6-7 feet high, and all the sprawling branches at the bottom aren't really all that attractive. As you say they are just kind of dragging on the ground.

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Dee

Sorry no, nothing pertaining to your ID request. ;-))

I should've started this a few years ago, it would've been done by now.

I think the true tree forms have shorter, stouter branches so these probably will droop depending on conditions. Dry year might produce shorter limbs, wet the opposite.

But it was not nice looking especially after a rain so I anything will be an improvement imo.

Back to the original topic now, really, I promise. :^)

Anyone?

Same here with the Limelight - anything will be an improvement! (well, if I can prune it properly lol!)

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Dee

They're hard to mess up. I pruned off everything but the trunk and a couple of stub branches and the next year it branched profusely, like you see in the picture.

Dee any chance it’s one of the lacecap H. arborescens — Haas Halo, etc.?