‘Merveille Sanguine’
One of the richest, darkest red hydrangeas going, ‘Merveille Sanguine’ was discovered as a sport, or mutation, of the old, pink hydrangea variety ‘Merveille’, and was introduced by Henri Cayeux in 1936. And it is a plant that’s fabulously striking. The large, regular mopheads are made up of deep blackcurrant flowers, each with a central eye of vivid violet. ‘Merveille Sanguine’ is an excellent cut flower: use in an autumn arrangement with rosehips, hawthorn berries, scabious, maple leaves, chrysanthemums and amaranth.
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