Home Gardening Outdoor Gardening 12 Stunning Hydrangea Varieties You Need to Know About These beautiful new hydrangeas will boost your home's curb appeal. By Debbie Wolfe Debbie Wolfe Debbie Wolfe is an author and freelance writer who specializes in home and garden, food and cooking, parenting, and travel topics. She is also an accomplished photographer and is currently the senior visual editor for Dotdash Meredith. Real Simple's Editorial Guidelines Updated on March 14, 2023 Fact checked by Emily Peterson Fact checked by Emily Peterson Emily Peterson is an experienced fact-checker and editor with Bachelor's degrees in English Literature and French. Our Fact-Checking Process Share Tweet Pin Email Hydrangeas are some of the most popular outdoor plants to add curb appeal to a property or introduce beautiful blooms to a backyard—and it's not hard to see why. With oversized blooms that range from shades of ivory to magenta to lavender, hydrangeas create an eye-catching display. While certain hydrangea varieties are mainstays, there are plenty of other options to choose from. Here are 10 gorgeous hydrangea varieties you may not be familiar with yet, but you'll be glad you added to your garden this year. Bailey Nurseries How to Care for Hydrangeas to Get the Most Beautiful Blooms on the Block 01 of 12 Bobo Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com This dwarf hydrangea variety is compact and sturdy, with strong stems that eliminate the issue of drooping flowers. Bobo hydrangea has large, white blooms that cover the plant from midsummer to fall. USDA Zones: 4 to 9 02 of 12 Little lime Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com Little lime hydrangea is the little sister to the popular limelight variety. As the name implies, the flowers bloom into a lime green color, but it grows smaller than other varieties at just around 3 to 5 feet tall and wide. USDA Zones: 3 to 8 03 of 12 Cherry Explosion Bloomables This hydrangea features copious amounts of large, long-lasting, bright cherry blooms. Cherry Explosion has a longer bloom window and performs well in a wide range of conditions and is an excellent addition to a low-maintenance garden. USDA Zones: 4 to 9 04 of 12 Hydrangea L.A. Dreamin' Hydrangea L.A. Dreamin' is a genuinely unique hydrangea macrophylla. It produces blooms in a multitude of show-stopping displays of pinks, blues, and everything in between. Hydrangea L.A. Dreamin' is beautiful and versatile, looking great in both the garden or planted in a decorative container. USDA Zones: 5 to 10 05 of 12 Seaside Serenade Newport Doreen Wynja for Monrovia This showy rebloomer features a profusion of full mophead flower clusters that mature to a deep pink on very sturdy stems. Like the other hydrangeas in the Seaside Serenade Collection, Newport Hydrangea features stems, leaves, and flowers that are thicker and waxier, allowing the blooms to last up to three months, and they won't flop in windy or rainy weather. Newport reblooms from early summer until autumn and features a compact habit, allowing it to fit in both large and small-space landscapes. USDA Zones: 4 to 9 06 of 12 Seaside Serenade Bar Harbor Doreen Wynja for Monrovia Seaside Serenade Bar Harbor is an arborescens variety of hydrangea, also known as a "smooth hydrangea." Bar Harbor produces many large white flowers and is perfect for smaller spaces as it only gets four feet tall and wide. Bar Harbor also has super sturdy stems, which allow it to hold up even in heavy rains. USDA Zones: 3 to 8 07 of 12 First Editions Berry White Bailey Nurseries First Editions Berry White Hydrangea, which has cone-shaped clusters, is the most fabulous new panicle hydrangea on the market. This hydrangea features strong stems and intense fall color. It is similarly sized to one of the bestselling panicle hydrangeas, Vanilla Strawberry, but has even stronger branches so it can hold those gigantic flowers on the tall plant. USDA Zones: 3 to 8 08 of 12 Endless Summer Summer Crush Bailey Nurseries Endless Summer Summer Crush Hydrangea is the bestselling new bigleaf hydrangea currently on the market. It features large, intense deep pink-red blooms and only gets up to 2 to 3 feet tall and wide, which makes it perfect for containers or in the landscape. It's also one of the most cold- and heat-tolerant varieties of the Endless Summer collection. USDA Zones: 4 to 9 09 of 12 Endless Summer BloomStruck Bailey Nurseries Incredibly heat- and cold-tolerant, Endless Summer BloomStruck Hydrangea is similar to Summer Crush in its consistent ability to bloom on old and new growth. It will produce beautiful blooms from early summer through fall. BloomStruck features deep blue-purple or deep pink flowers (depending on soil pH) with super-strong red stems and a smaller growth habit. USDA Zones: 4 to 9 10 of 12 Let's Dance Can Do Proven Winners Let's Dance Can Do Hydrangea creates flower buds along the entire length of the stem instead of only at the top like most bigleaf hydrangeas. That means flower buds are still possible in early summer, even if you get a late-season frost. The plant features delicate lacecap blooms in strawberry pink or lovely lavender, depending on the soil. USDA Zones: 4 to 9 11 of 12 Limelight Prime Proven Winners Limelight hydrangeas are known for their large blooms that gleam in full sun. The new Limelight Prime panicle hydrangea does everything better than the original Limelight, from bud to bloom and beyond. It blooms earlier, with bolder, brighter flower color and even stronger stems. It's also a more practical, compact size and one of the easiest-to-grow hydrangeas you can plant. USDA Zones: 3 to 8 12 of 12 Fire Light Tidbit Proven Winners Fire Light Tidbit hydrangea is the tiniest, tidiest panicle hydrangea available. It reaches just 2 to 3 feet tall and wide, yet it packs tons of easy-care beauty into its small size. It features big, lush panicles of white mophead flowers that appear in early to mid-summer, nearly obscuring the textured green foliage. Its thick, sturdy stems help to create a neat, mounded plant that's fantastic in landscapes, flower gardens, and even in containers. UDA Zones: 3 to 8 Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit