Fairytrail Fresco Cascade Hydrangea (Hydrangea x 'Fairytrail Fresco')
hy-DRAIN-jah ex 'Fairytrail Fresco'

Perennial Cascading
 
 
Available May 7
Size Notes Price Availability
#1 gallon Greenhouse $23.66
Available May 14
Size Notes Price Availability
#1 gallon Greenhouse $23.66
Available May 21
Size Notes Price Availability
#1 gallon Greenhouse $23.66
 
Introducing Fairytrail Fresco, with its unique trailing habit and fluffy blooms, this hydrangea creates a vibrant cloud of color in your garden, perfect for containers and borders!

Meet one of the first ever Cascade Hydrangeas® available in North America! We’re confident you’ll love these hydrangeas and their unique horizontal growing habit. Flowers develop at every leaf cluster along its graceful, trailing stems. Fairytrail Fresco is the most colorful member of the series! Its fluffy mophead flowers are blue or pink, depending on the soil. They grow so closely together that the plant looks like a colorful little cloud settled in your garden. They arrive in late spring, offering an opportunity to enjoy hydrangeas much earlier than normal! Its expansive habit and flower power look best in containers and at the front or middle of the border where it can provide an immediate impression.

We recommend part sun (4-6 hrs sun/day) for this plant; morning shade is particularly key for its success. See, the Cascade hydrangea plant itself is actually quite hardy. However, it blooms much, much earlier than other old wood-blooming hydrangeas, like big leaf and mountain. This makes its beautiful blooms extra susceptible to spring frosts and freezes. We found that if the plant is grown in a spot with morning shade, then the potential damage from those spring cold snaps is mitigated because the frost melts more slowly, limiting the damage it causes to the delicate floral tissue.

Pros

  • Early bloom time
  • Plentiful flowers
  • Interesting cascading habit
 

Plant Data

Mature Size 4 - 4 feet tall. - 54 inches wide.
Moisture Tolerance It does not respond well to any period of extended sogginess, like overwatering or heavy continuous rain events.
Zones 5a - 9b (Usually hardy to -20° F)
Tags Attracts Butterflies, Container, Fall interest, Formal Garden, Foundation, Good for Accents, Good for Beginners, Good for Butterfly Garden, Good for Cottage Garden, Good for Cut Flowers, Good for Dried Flowers, Good for Hedges, Good for Rock Garden, Groundcover, Low Maintenance, Medium, Normal Soil, Partial Sun, Perennial, Showy Flowers, Specimen, Thrillers, Tolerant of Clay Soil, Well-Drained Soil
Bloom Period Spring - Fall
Flower Color Blue, Green, Pink
 

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Field-Grown vs. Greenhouse-Grown Plants

Plants which are well-adapted to our local climate are most often field-grown (outside). Field-grown plants are generally cheaper and have the advantage of already somewhat acclimated to our cold winters, but that means they’re not artificially far along in the spring and tend to bloom at the normal time in our area.

Spring annuals and tender perennials are typically grown in Greenhouses so they can be ready and luxurious exactly when customers want them. Some perennials are also “forced” into early bloom in greenhouses. In May, there can be a very big difference between field-grown and greenhouse-grown plants of the same type. The latter typically look good right away (so they’re a great choice where that’s important), but we typically pay a premium for it.


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