by Gaynor Naylor | Jun 23, 2026 | Featured - Home Page, News
After a mild winter and a warm but wet spring, the hydrangeas are flowering even earlier this year. We will open the gates to the walled garden on Tuesday 30 June and they will remain open all day every day until the end of October. As always, the display will change...
by Gaynor Naylor | Jan 31, 2026 | News
A panel from Hydrangea Derby assessed 114 of our established cultivars of Hydrangea paniculata every two weeks throughout the flowering period, awarding each cultivar points out of ten. The photos below show the top 3 cultivars for 2025, and the top 14 cultivars are...
by Gaynor Naylor | Mar 9, 2025 | News
March is the start of a new gardening year here at Hydrangea Derby and we’ve being making the most of the beautiful sunny weather to do some preparatory work. Our priority has been to start mulching the beds with woodchip kindly provided by Derby City Council....
by Gaynor Naylor | Sep 23, 2023 | Paniculata
An attractive and unusual dwarf cultivar, similar to ‘Polestar’ that flowers very early and has a honey like fragrance. Open the pdf for a full description of the plant.
by Gaynor Naylor | Sep 23, 2023 | Paniculata
An attractive cultivar with very distinctive sterile flowers, having long thin overlapping sepals packed into dense flower heads Open the pdf for a full description of the plant.
