Good grief! Those look amazing. Georgia Sweetheart and Tattoo look "all grown up" already, and Ivory Queen is a beauty. I think it's high time I check out Plant Delights...because those sure are delightful...

Below are the current hydrangea we are growing at home, many still small. So my direct hydrangea experience comes from this base. I have a few others on my wishlist still. I will pick up unlabeled plants if highly compelling, but try to avoid it. I have seen 'Mathlida Gutges' generically labeled or mislabeled as 'Nikko Blue' at Home Depo. Our List: Hydrangea angustipetala 'MonLongShou' 'Golden Crane' Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' Hydrangea arborescens 'White Dome' Hydrangea aspera 'Macrophylla' Hydrangea aspera 'Plum Passion' Hydrangea aspera 'Sargentianum' Hydrangea aspera 'Villosum' Hydrangea macrophylla ?lavendar pink Hydrangea macrophylla ?peppermint Hydrangea macrophylla ?blue/pink Hydrangea macrophylla 'Amethyst' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Angel Lace' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Ayesha' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Bigleaf White' (Monrovia) Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blaumiese' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Bloomstruck' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blue Danube' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Bottstein' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Burning Embers' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Let's Dance Diva' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Eisvogel' Hydrangea macrophylla '(Blue) Enchantress' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Endless Summer' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Enziandom' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Fasan' Hydrangea macrophylla 'First White' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Freedom' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Gallilee' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Hamburg' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Hobella' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Homigo' (Hovaria) Hydrangea macrophylla 'Horcos' 'Firefly' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Hot Red' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Jubilee' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Kardinal' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Kluis Superba' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Lady in Red' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Lanarth White' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Leuchtfurer' Hydrangea macrophylla mariesii 'Grandiflora' 'White Wave' Hydrangea macrophylla mariesii 'Perfecta' 'Blue Wave' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Masja' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mathilda Gutges' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Merritt's Beauty' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Merritt's Supreme' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Merveille Sanguine' 'Brunette' 'Color Fantasy' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Multiblue' Hydrangea macrophylla 'New Wine' Hydrangea macrophylla nigra Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nikko Blue' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Parzival' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Peppermint Twist' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Pia' 'Pink Elf' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Pistachio' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Revolution' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Rotdrossel' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Selina' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Sister Therese' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Snowstorm' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Sumida no Hanabi' 'Shooting Stars' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Taube' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Tivoli' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Tokyo Delight' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Twist & Shout' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Wedding Gown' Hydrangea macrophylla 'White Robe' Hydrangea macrophylla 'You and Me Forever' Hydrangea macrophylla 'You and Me Romance' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Zaunkoening' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Zebra' Hydrangea paniculata 'Bobo' Hydrangea paniculata 'Fire & Ice' 'Wim's Red' Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight' Hydrangea paniculata 'Phantom' Hydrangea paniculata 'Pinky Winky' Hydrangea paniculata 'Strawberry Sundae' Hydrangea paniculata 'Vanilla Strawberry' Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alice' Hydrangea quercifolia 'Ruby Slippers' Hydrangea quercifolia 'Snow Queen' Hydrangea quercifolia 'Snowflake' Hydrangea serrata 'Beni Gaku' Hydrangea serrata 'Blue Billow' Hydrangea serrata 'Blue Bird'' Hydrangea serrata 'Blue Deckle' Hydrangea serrata 'Chiri-san Sue' Hydrangea serrata 'Golden Sunlight' Hydrangea serrata 'Preziosa' 'Lanarth White' 'Revolution' 'Hot Red nigra (acidic soil) black stems 'Let's Dance Diva' 'New Wine' 'Zaunkoening' 'Blue Wave' (past prime) (unknown blue/pink) w huge heads

Well guys, I'm more than happy to enable you all! LOL I decided to change out one of the roses on that list above. I think I'll hold off on MADAME ANISETTE. Not sure where she will go. And I'm thinking maybe she'll show up at Lowes in the spring. The one I am changing to tho is COLOR MAGIC. I lost mine several yrs ago, and got a replacement one earlier this yr from Heirloom (or was it RVR?)... anyway, it was obviously own-root. Well, it died on me the other day. I think I'd rather have it grafted. Still gotta send the order in. Then, I wanna do a small order from Hortico, seeing as how they have to replace a couple from last yr that were the wrong roses. I have to pay the shipping, so figured I'll order a few more roses.... They have a bunch of DAs that they didn't have last yr. I gotta fill in the apricot/yellow bed with a couple more... Also wanna do a small order from J&P once they get the rest of their roses added on. I really don't need any more roses... LOL but I lost a very large amount this past season so I have quite a few open spaces to fill in. We'll all have to compare our PRINCESS CHARLENEs next yr!!

Here's this week's Oklahoma Drought Monitor Map, released one day early due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The amount of area covered by various colors is increasing fairly rapidly from one week to the next so little to no moisture is falling recently. White areas remain normal, yellow areas = Abnormally Dry (pre-drought) conditions and the remaining colors equal various degrees of drought. With little to no rain expected over the next week, I'd expect things will look even worse next week. With the winter months being our driest months, it is not good to head into them already in drought and pre-drought conditions, but the handwriting is on the wall. Here's the Oklahoma Drought Monitor Map: Oklahoma Drought Monitor And, for the folks here are indeed beloved members of our formum despite the fact that they live outside Oklahoma's borders, here's this week's U. S. Drought Monitor Map. You can click on your own state on this map if you want to see more specifically relating to your state: U. S. Drought Monitor Map Is anyone expecting a Thanksgiving week miracle of a deluge of rain to save us all from these dry conditions? (Ha! Don't waste your time hoping.) Here's the rain forecast: 7-Day Qualitative Precipitation Forecast Maybe next week will bring meaningful rain, but I'm not holding my breath and expecting it to happen. Late next week, December arrives. Wow. Just wow. How does November fly by so quickly?