I am attempting to find detailed plant information on a variety of hydrangea called Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Miss Belgium’, and can find very little in my plant books and online. Do you have any suggestions? Some of the details I am looking for are flower shape and size, plant habit, height & spread, and foliage details.
I found some information about Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Miss Belgium’ in Glyn Church’s book, Hydrangeas (Cassell, 1999):
An excellent pink in alkaline soil or in containers. The plant is ideally suited to pot and tub culture as it stays small and compact (3 ft.) and the rounded heads tend to be tiny, keeping the flowers in proportion to the bush. Its free-flowering habit and healthy nature are its good qualities. It is not the best plant for acid soils as the flowers will be a strident purple-blue.
There is a photograph of ‘Miss Belgium’ in Corinne Mallet’s Hydrangeas: Species and Cultivars (vol .1).
Heritage Hydrangeas’ website (no longer available) has this description: “Bright magenta-red on neutral soils or purplish blue on acidic soils, the centre of each floret is always white. Impressive flowers on a compact shrub.”