I see a lot of poor reviews on these. I live in zone 6. I have a collection of hydrangeas from unknown to proven winner varieties. These are the most beautiful of all, but blooming does not come easy. They are hardy to zone 6 but are DIVAS here. If anything happens to the buds before bloom, blooming for the following season will be sabotaged. They require diligence and hard work in zone 6. They are a delicacy to deer. If they survive deer grazing throughout the year, their tender buds start to swell so early in the spring that it is very likely that a mid to late spring frost will zap them in tracks. My secret is keeping them in pots and overwintering them in my non-heated garage with little window light. They come alive right in there. I don’t bring them out until all chances of frost pass (or I’ll bring them in). They grow incredibly fast and I am experimenting with a few in the ground protected over winter with frost covers (however deer ripped through two and ate this years blooms from them already). The buds are all swollen on my ones in the garage and the ones in the ground. I have 2 out there now unprotected (it’s now mid April). If we have no frosts and no deer plow through the deer netting I have around them, I know the blooms on them will be unbelievable. Otherworldly beautiful and rewarding with research, hard work, some good luck, and success...and you cannot beat the price on these.

Dry, very small, pretty much dead and we took it back inside and returned it. Had purchased it for curbside pick up. It was unacceptable and unrecognizable.