Have a Ball With Hydrangeas
Even if you don't tinker with the hue by changing the soil, hydrangeas have an entertaining range of uses in all kinds of landscapes
The most common color for hydrangeas is white, but this flowering shrub can also bloom blue, pink, light purple, light green or dark purple. The color of the bloom is often determined by the pH level of the soil in which the hydrangea is planted — the same specimen could grow pink in alkaline soil and blue in acidic soil.
Whatever color you choose, a hydrangea is a wonderful addition to any home with its dramatic blooms. It is also beloved of gardeners as an addition to a cutting garden. With a few mature hydrangeas on your property, you may find you have more blossoms that you could ever need — meaning you'll have plenty to gift to friends.
Whatever color you choose, a hydrangea is a wonderful addition to any home with its dramatic blooms. It is also beloved of gardeners as an addition to a cutting garden. With a few mature hydrangeas on your property, you may find you have more blossoms that you could ever need — meaning you'll have plenty to gift to friends.
Husband-and-wife team Eric and Silvina Blasen have created a traditional garden for this San Francisco house. Limiting the palette to whites and greens, including a lime-green hydrangea bush, keeps the look fresh, not fussy.
These chartreuse hydrangeas are a perky welcome to this home by Bosworth Hoedemaker. The bush is growing a little leggy, which means the owners should prune more frequently.
A Tarrytown, New York, terrace is planted with Hydrangea paniculata, whose flowers form a cone-shape panicle. While white blooms do not usually change color like pink or blue specimens, they may mature to pink in the fall.
Timothy Lee Landscape Design surrounded this 'Endless Summer' hydrangea bush with nepeta, inkberry, viburnum and Siberian irises.
A typical gingerbread cottage in the Oak Bluffs area of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, has purple-hued hydrangeas and green, leafy hostas.
Frank & Grossman Landscape Contractors planted a border of petite hydrangeas for the 2006 San Francisco Designer Showcase. While they look adorable in this photo taken at the time, you would be wise to plant yours farther apart, as they will grow to be at least 3 feet high.
Joe Weuste of Summerset Gardensnotes that you can have an impressive display like this in just two seasons of growth with the proper soil mix, fertilizer and water. (These second-year specimens were 5-gallon plants when installed.)
Hydrangea bushes create a border between the porch and the driveway of this home designed by Debra Kling. The bark mulch at the shrubs' bases is a smart way to extend the time between waterings in the hot summer months.
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Share your best hydrangea photo below!
Great design flowers:
Catmint | Golden Creeping Jenny | Pacific Coast Iris | Red Kangaroo Paw | Sally Holmes Rose |
Slipper Plant | Snake Flower