- Attractive Lace Cap flowers
- Striking dark foliage
- Hardy shade lover
- Prefers good drainage
Hydrangea aspera 'Hot Chocolate' is a distinctive Lace cap Hydrangea offering pretty pink and violet blooms up to 30 cm across. The showy summer flowers, with violet-blue hearts and soft pink outer florets, contrast beautifully with the rich chocolate foliage, which turns to amber in Autumn. This robust, hardy shrub will flower right through summer with minimal care. Prefers dappled shade.
In ‘Hot Chocolate’ there is a valuable additional feature which is the leaves which open in spring dark chocolate brown, eventually becoming dark green and making an ideal background for the flowers. Then, in autumn, the foliage changes to amberish yellow with orange highlights.