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Fading, but still glorious. Schizophragma, clambering up the front of the house at Great Dixter
When is a hydrangea not a hydrangea? When it’s a Schizophragma integrifolium, of course. The Japanese hydrangea vine is a close relation, and while many who fancy a showy flowered, self-clinging climber clambering their house might opt for Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris – a perfectly wonderful plant in shades of bright green and cream – the Schizophragma somehow manages to do the same job, only with a bit more pizzazz – lacecap blooms somehow more open, the characteristic spear-shaped outer florets that little bit more elegant – even with the flowers on their last legs in autumn. Slow to start, but eventually gets big (up to 12 metres tall), and not for those who blanche at the mere suggestion of ivy sticking to the brickwork. But it’s hard to think of a more glamorous way to clothe a tricky north wall.
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