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 ...

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.

Plant a pink hydrangea in acid soil and it may fade after a few growing seasons to washed-out blue. The hydrangea are all macrophylla cultivars. 'Parsifal,' a mophead that will turn blue in acid soil.

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, ...

Of the numerous varieties available, one of the loveliest is Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Madame Emile Mouillière’, whose giant, white blooms take on a shade of shell-pink as they age.

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 ...