This month on Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw explore some of the most popular shrubs to grace nursery benches and gardens. In this episode, Matt and Joanne finish up where they left off in last week's conversation about hydrangeas.

To listen to Hydrangeas Part One, click here.

Tune in for the second in a two-part series on hydrangeas.

In Hydrangeas: Part 2 – Panicle and Mountain, Joanne and Matt discuss:

• Hydrangea growing conditions: soil, temperature, zones, lighting and watering
• Blooming: type, when and for how long, what colours
• Their use and value to the perennial garden
• Cultivars of note for each plant
  • Paniculata Hydrangea cultivars
  • Limelight Hydrangea
  • Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea
  • Phantom Hydrangea
  • Quickfire Hydrangea
  • Smaller varieties of Paniculata Hydrangea are
  • Little Lime Hydrangea
  • Little Quickfire Hydrangea
  • Bobo Hydrangea
  • Little Lime Hydrangea
• Serrata Hydrangea cultivars
  • Tuff Stuff Hydrangea
  • Beni-Gaku Hydrangea
  • Smaller varieties:
    • Tiny Tuff stuff
    • Tiny Tuff Stuff Red
    • Tiny Tuff Stuff Aha

Enjoy last year's Down the Garden Path podcast episodes on shrubs:

Shrubs: Pruning

Shrubs: Evergreens

Shrubs: New for 2020

Shrubs: Nativars

Upcoming Shows:

August: A month dedicated to flowering trees, including standard trees, flowering dogwoods and large flowering trees.

About Your Hosts

Each week on Down The Garden Path podcast, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes.

As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade.

And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.