Lacecap Hydrangeas and Mophead Hydrangeas are both classified as Hydrangea macrophylla. Both types require the same growing environment.
Pictures of the mophead hydrangeas can be found here.
Lacecap Hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla)
Lacecap hydrangeas, whose flowers look like a circle of unopened buds surrounded by open petals.
Pruning Lacecap Hydrangeas
Lacecap hydrangeas are the French variety of that beloved flowering bush. They grace you with a large cluster of beautiful flowers that give off a lace-like feel.
Now the Lacecaps
‘Blue Wave' - Improved ‘Mariesii' prolific blue blooms on a 5' x 7' plant
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Selected lacecap cultivars:
'Lilacina'. The outer, sterile flowers are mauve, the inner fertile flowers are dark blue.
'Blue Wave'. Sepals have wavy edges. Blue in acid soils, pink or lilac in more neutral soils.
Big Leaf Hydrangea (H. macrophylla) includes the commonly grown mophead and lacecap varieties. When hydrangea pruning care should be performed for these sometimes varies. Generally, they are pruned in late summer, after blooming has ceased.
Hydrangea macrophylla is the most well known species, of which there are two shapes mopheads and lacecaps.
macrophylla are commonly classified into two broad categories: the garden hortensias, or snowball-type hydrangeas, and the lacecaps with flat flower heads.
macrophylla-Lacecap. It is hardy in zones 7-9, (20-50F in dormant state.
The flattened flowerhead has white double petaled "stars" (flowers) that shoot from the flower like fireworks.
There are two kinds of bigleaf hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla): mopheads (sometimes called hortensias) and lacecaps, which have a much flatter flower. Mopheads sport huge blooms that stretch up to 12 inches across.
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'Bluebird' (H. serrata) balances delicate lacecap flowers atop a small shrub that only reaches 3 feet.
The flowers of mop-head, or hortensia, types produce big globes of star-shaped petals, while the lacecap types have flatter flowerheads with frilly blossoms in the center and larger florets around the edges.
This hydrangea is the one that produces the large pink or blue flowers (depending on pH of the soil) in either mophead form or lacecap form. Acidic soils produce blue flowers, while alkaline soils produce pink.
 See also: Flower, Plant, Hydrangea, Shrub, Spring
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