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If you find yourself enchanted by these garden gems, here are a few tips to help you choose the right hydrangea and keep it ...
GROWING AGAINST the south-facing wall of the Inverness Library is a row of aged hydrangeas with abundant pinkish mop-head flowers at the tops of almost 6-foot shrubs. As one of this garden’s ...
Dirr's hydrangea breeding program shortly produced another reblooming mop head, Blushing Bride, which blooms white and matures to a pale pink. That was in 2007.
Daniel Hinkley grew up in Michigan, a place with serious Zone 4 winters and a repetitive palette of two white-flowered varieties of hydrangeas. In many front yards, you could see Hydrangea ...
Blousy mop-head or delicate lace-cap? There's a hydrangea variety to suit all tastes and gardens, says Marie Staunton ...
H. macrophylla, which is native to a small coastal area of Japan, is easily the most popular species. But it's not the only hydrangea out there; and if your garden is in a cold or exposed site, it ...
Macrophylla, which are the large leaf mop heads, mostly blue or pink plants. Then there’s the Annabelle and the paniculata. These last two bloom on what is called “new wood” or this year’s ...
Blue Bird — This is an old school serrata, or mountain hydrangea — they look about the same as the big leaf or “macrophylla” types but are hardier and sport superior fall color.
Then there are the new mop-heads, such as H. macrophylla ‘Lady in Red’ (purple leaves, red flowers) and ‘Limelight’ (soft green blossoms). I’m not sure yet whether these are marvelous ...
We have the macrophylla mop tops common in older gardens, with their big heads of blue or white. ... Most hydrangeas hail from Asia, but the oak-leaved species, Hydrangea quercifolia, ...
Great Plant Picks: Mophead Hydrangea, Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Merritt’s Beauty’ By Richie Steffens Great Plant Picks; Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:30am ...
I hold a strong belief that the garden is never finished. Gardening is not a project that has a beginning and ending date as much as it is a process. There is always room for something new and ...