In North America PeeGee is now becoming a common name used for all varieties of the invaluable  Hydrangea paniculata – and not just Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’, which is the plant which first give rise to the name.

Many new varieties have appeared in recent years and forty seven different ones were recently trialled at the Royal Horticultural Society at their gardens just outside London. They were planted in 2004 and an invaluable report with descriptions of them all, and news of the ten awards is now available from the RHS website as a free download.

There’s more on the trial and the report in my hydrangea posting over on the RHS website. Why not take a look?