hydrangea

The hydrangea is not a fashionable flowering plant at the moment and may never be again because it is thirsty and needs looking after during the hot summer days.  They will do very well away from the heat of the afternoon sun.  The leaves burn easily and the flowers dry up but when they are at their best in spring you have a spectacular showy bush.

 I throw a wet sheet over the bush when there is a hot north wind coming.  That seems to help.  They are so easy to grow from cuttings.  The colourings, blue or pink, depend on the presence or absence of aluminium or as some have said, on the ph of the soil.  I am happy to see a bush with healthy flowers, no matter what the colour.