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I saw it’s flowers from last year dried. They were blue and pink mostly, occasional purple, and a few reds

It’s a mophead big leaf

Its blooms on new and old wood, so it can’t be Niko blue like I thought.

It was brought as a cutting from Seattle. Dont know if it was ever in a Nursery, most likely not.

My grandma said it’s between 30-50 years old. She is 94.

She keeps the flowers, dries them and makes a bouquet. Sorry I thought I had a picture it.

I’m hoping someone well recognize that big deep root system.
I’d love to know what variety this hydrangea is,I’m sure the creator of La Dreamin would to 😂😂😂
I can’t believe those are still for sale, listed zone 4-9. They’re an annual and don’t bloom every color at once, like this one here does!

In theory, it should only bloom pink flowers. It’s in alkaline soil and has never been fertilized. The water comes out at 6.8 ph. Its generally is taller and more bushy than this, my grandma thinned it out, cut some of the old wood down. It is truely a mystery plant!! Mopheads don’t even do good on this side of the state, it’s too cold, to dry! Were Zone 6A with lots of snow, short spring and fall seasons, and Late Frost!!

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Spokane, Washington
I was driving to one nursery as I was calling others, seeing if anyone had Tuff Stuff Mountain Hydrangeas. Not to my surprise, the answer was no. That’s another one I need to add to my list now, that used to be everywhere, and now, no one has them. Does anyone remember when nursery were so filled with Pistachio Hydrangeas, that you got sick of seeing them. I do, and I swear I still see something similar at the box stores, but the last time a bought a Hydrnagea from one of them that was in a black pot and had a generic Macrophylla Hydragea tag, I thought it was a Pistachio. I left it in the pot all summer and when I went to plant it in the fall. I found a little nursery tag inside the root ball. From a Canadian Nursery. It was an annual Hydrangea! Tried to keep it still but once spring came, my purple and lime mophead was dead.
I said I’d never buy a plant without a proven winner, Endless Summer, Monrovia, 1st edition, or one of the other reliable names right on the pot from a box store. Well today, after a failed hunt for a Tuff Stuff Mountain Hydrangea (one place said they had one, but it wasn’t Aha), I got the vibe Pop Star is taking the lacecaps over, as endless seems to be doing with the whole hydrangea macro market. so I figured might as well get it at the box stores. It’ll be twenty dollars less than this nursery. And i went into the box store, spotted the blue pots from a mile away, noticed that same pistachio hydrangea looking plant in black pots twice the size, for the same price (accept this resembled a violet crown, was mophead instead of the pistachios smaller unique shape). I grabbed a pop star with one pink flower(they were all blooming). And as I walked up to the front, looking for some Cocoa Coir Chunks, which no one knew what I was talking about, I noticed an end cap with massive mopheads! More of these Plants just called “Hydangeas” with so much acidifier and fertilizer in the top, I was taking it out of pots to add to my Pink pop Star. Then I spotted something, one plant, in the very back corner. No Way! It’s a lacecap, and not like the Pop Star in my hand. The foliage was not nearly as dark, the plant is not as dense, and the leaves look like a mophead. I looked at it, and I thought, remeber what happened last time. I stuck my hand in it looking for another tag and nothing, but I believe I recognize this plant. IMO it came in a pot, and either got dropped or damaged and the box store through it in with the ‘mystery Hydrangeas’. I’m curious what you guys think it is! And I’m aware it’s a lacecap hydrangea Macro, or is it the Mountain Hydrangea I was looking for?. Pls, share what you think, I’ll write on the back what I think and be back on in a few hours! cheat and use ai, they don’t know the difference, there gunna say it’s….. NVM….I tried haha.
Bonus points if you can name the plant on the left in the whiskey barrel! Ai can never get that one right.