Moonlight Climbing Hydrangea

Schizophragma hydrangeoides ‘Moonlight’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Flowering Vine

Height or Length at Maturity: 30′ or more

Width at Maturity: 4’+
Spacing: 6′ apart to cover walls and fences

Growth Habit / Form: Climbing, Spreading/Trailing

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: White
Flower Type: Lacecap Type

Flower Size: 1″ in 8″ diameter clusters!
Flowering Period: Summer

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Dark Blue-Green & Silver Grey

Fragrant Foliage: No

Sun Needs: Full Sun to Part Shade in Zones 4a-7b | Morning Sun/ Afternoon Shade in Zones 8a-9b

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Silt (amended)

Soil Drainage: Well Drained, Moderately Drained

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.0

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Drought, Heat, Humidity, Heavy Shade

Description

Adored for its unique, silvery heart-shaped leaves with blue green veins and 10-inch diameter clusters of, flat-topped, lace cap creamy white flowers which bloom for 6 to 8 weeks in summer, the Moonlight Climbing Hydrangea is ideal for lighting up shady walls, tree trunks, fencers and other walls where its clinging vines will climb up to 30 feet or more in height with no support. No attachments are necessary for this vine to climb as it naturally clings to bark, wood, brick and other surfaces using its own aerial roots, which won’t harm your walls or trees.

Landscape & Garden Uses

A clinging vine that will climb to 30 feet or more in height with no attachments required, the Moonlight Climbing Hydrangea provides wonderful texture and color as a vertical accent on home foundation or other walls, trellises, arbors, pergolas, and tree trunks. A fine addition to Hydrangea gardens, white gardens, Asian theme gardens and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 6 feet apart to cover walls or fences. One plant is usually sufficient to cover even a large tree trunk.

Growing Preferences

The Moonlight Climbing Hydrangea is easy to grow. The delicate aerial rootlets by which it clings won’t harm your walls or your trees. It is one of a few ornamental vines that will flower even in shade but will handle morning and evening sun with no problems. Grows well in moist but well-drained soils of average fertility.

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I wanted to take a moment to thank you for doing such a wonderful and careful job packing your plants! I have ordered quite a few plants online in recent years and I have never received one as carefully packaged as yours! I will gladly pay the high shipping prices you charge when my plants are so thoughtfully stapled into place with carefully cut cardboard while moist towels are taped across the top of the soil, keeping is wet during shipment. It was like a package of love!
Thank you for caring so much about what you do!—————————————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

I was concerned with this plant being shipped with high temperatures expected but it arrived in perfect shape and so healthy. It was packaged very well. It looks stunning against my brick wall. It was a nice size for a 1 gallon sized plant. I just need for it to grow a few more inches to reach the wall to start climbing.————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

I’m impressed. The Climbing Hydrangea I ordered arrived in a box that had not been handled gently.. But inside the healthy plant was in prefect shape! I hesitated to mail order a live plant but won’t hesitate do do so again.——————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG