Little Honey Dwarf Oakleaf Hydrangea
Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Little Honey’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity: 3-4′
Width at Maturity: 4-6′
Spacing: 4′ for hedge; 8’+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Mounding
Flower Color: White
Flower Size: Large – 6-8″ inches long
Flowering Period: Summer
Flower Type: Single in large, long clusters
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Yellow
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: NA
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Part Shade (morning sun with afternoon shade or all day filtered sun)
Water Needs: Average, low when established
Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist
Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5 (Acid to Slightly Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: Very Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought (when established in part shade), Heat, Humidity, Insect
Description
The Little Honey Oakleaf Hydrangea provides the same four-season appeal as its larger cousins, but with brilliant yellow leaves and in half the space! Its large and showy, deeply-lobed, oak-shaped leaves emerge golden yellow in spring and retain this color well into summer gradually fading to chartreuse and then green by early fall at which time they turn to a handsome crimson red color. Showy cone-shaped panicles of white flowers bloom in early summer and sporadically through summer into fall. The flowers fade to a dusty pink color. Red stems provide interest during the winter months.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing in a mound to about 4 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide, the Little Honey Oakleaf Hydrangea is ideal for use in landscape or woodland borders as an accent or specimen, in small to large groupings, or as a natural hedge. Its smaller size makes it perfect for use in smaller garden spaces, home foundation plantings and pots, planters and other containers of 14 inches or more in rim diameter. A fine selection for Hydrangea gardens, white or yellow theme gardens, cottage gardens and partially shaded woodland gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 4 feet apart for hedge; 8 feet or more apart or more for space between plants
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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Cold Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Hydrangea variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know that it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and place back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
Little Honey Oakleaf Hydrangea is very easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained, soil with average fertility and full sun to part shade in northern zones where it will grow and shade to part shade (morning sun with afternoon shade or filtered sun) in southern zones. It prefers a soil rich in organic matter. For best flowering, we suggest 6 hours of direct sun light per day. As with so many other ornamental plants, a constantly soggy or wet soil is problematic. Highly resistant to pests and diseases.
Note: Little Honey is a Hydrangea quercifolia (oakleaf) species that produces its flowers from buds that formed on “old wood” (during the previous year). Oakleaf hydrangeas typically require little to no pruning. They are best left alone. That said they can be pruned to remove a stray branch or to reduce size.
For proper pruning time and techniques on various types of Hydrangea see: How To Prune Various Types Of Hydrangea
Helpful Articles
Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Oakleaf Hydrangeas.
How To Plant Hydrangeas In The Ground & Pots
How To Prune Various Types Of Hydrangea
How To Fertilize And Water Hydrangeas
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The Little Honey Oakleaf Hydrangea arrived in great condition and in a blaze of fall colors. I look forward to seeing it grow through the seasons.—————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I am very happy so far hope they grow.—————————————————————————We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
Great looking plant even in dormant stage! Really great size and awesome packaging. Shipped right away and shipped free! I’ll definitely order from this company again and have already recommended them to a friend.——————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I waited for quite a while for these to come back in stock, definitely worth the wait. They arrived in great condition, perfectly shaped little balls of colorful foliage. This cultivar is slow growing for me and difficult to find, so I was doubly pleased to find it here.——————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Well packed and in good condition. Even had a few lingering red fall leaves on it. Can’t wait to see it in the Spring———————————-Hi TB, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Little Honey Oakleaf Hydrangea. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words!
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens
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