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The many colors of blue hydrangeas: 3 of an indeterminate number!
Grown by a neighbour, the variation in colour is astonishing.
In this one I love how a component of the colour can be seen to spread out through the veins of the petals, especially at the bottom where a mauve departing from the centre becomes a lilac or light purple at the outer edges.
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Brought these home last week. Unfortunately they did not last beyond a day.....drooped every head by the nightfall of the day I brought them home...
...but they sure were pretty....
Oh ain't this lovely, a big blue hydrangea with water droplets - woohoo !
People love hydrangeas for their giant cluster flowers that grace gardens and bouquets around the world, but there's much more to these classic, romantic shrubs than meets the eye.
Oh my buddha - Blue hydrangeas symbolize frigidity and apology - sorry, not today, for either.
The colours of hydrangeas are affected by aluminum ions in the soil (lower pH higher acid required).
In Victorian times, giving someone a hydrangea could mean one of two things: Thank you for understanding, or – because its blooms are considered showy – boastfulness and vanity. Talk about sending someone a mixed messages - this is so confusing.
Are you looking to give a loved one a gift to tell them you are grateful for their understanding? Now that you’re armed with these cool hydrangea facts, look no further than a beautiful Bouquet of hydrangeas!
Hydrangeas are extremely poisonous. The compounds in the leaves release cyanide when eaten, so keep the plant away from small children or pets, but feel free to feed lots to your enemies.
Hydrangeas produce the main flower clusters from the tips of shoots formed from the previous season.
Apparently, they are Madonna's least favorite flower. OK I will go with who the hell is Madonna - just kidding.
People love hydrangeas so much they have ave there own holiday, Hydrangea Day celebrated on January fifth, which, weirdly and ironically enough when the flowers are out of season in northern climes.
Colour scheme: the many colours of blue hydrangeas: 1 of an indeterminate number!
Grown by a neighbour, the variation in colour is astonishing.
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Another detail of the Girona "Temps de flors" (Flower season), the international flower exhibition that is celebrated every year in Girona, Spain.
This is an old town staircase full of blue hydrangeas.
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Otro detalle del "Temps de flors" (tiempo de flores), la exhibición internacional de flores que se celebra cada año en Girona, España.
En esta foto aparece una escalinata del casco antiguo, llena de hortensias azules.
I realized that my stream is looking pretty pink these days. I felt it was important to upload something in a different color. This image is a different cluster (and different focus and treatment) from a hydrangea shoot I did a few weeks ago.
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I confess... sometimes I buy things at the grocery store just because I like the containter they are in. It was the simple, graceful lines of this bottle that spoke to me and had me grabbing it up to add to my cart... never mind what was in it, or that it was probably over priced. I'd love to see it with a single iris, but since I'll have to wait a good while for that to happen...
I was out for an evening walk around our neighborhood with my daughter and her hubby. And there was this hydrangea... growing really close to the road. Fair game, right??? (Thanks, unsuspecting neighbor that I do not know.)
Just for the record, the apricot nectar that came in the bottle was really-really good... a big bonus :))
A note about the photo: I've cloned little itty-bitty things out of photos before, but this is the first time ever that I've tried cloning something in. Have to say, I actually had myself a "moment"... lol...
The sun appeared for a short time at lunch time, so before I had anything to eat I went over to the car park to find something to photo.
Saw the Hydrangeas and thought that's it, just loved the masses of flowers all beginning to bloom.
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Adjusted this old shot www.flickr.com/photos/trinn/8417832159/in/album-721576316... Thought it looked much better now.
Hydrangea
Hydrangea (/ha?'dre?nd?i?/;[1] common names hydrangea or hortensia) is a genus of 70–75 species of flowering plants native to Asia and the Americas. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably Korea, China, and Japan. Most are shrubs 1 to 3 meters tall, but some are small trees, and others lianas reaching up to 30 m (98 ft) by climbing up trees. They can be either deciduous or evergreen, though the widely cultivated temperate species are all deciduous.[2]
Having been introduced to the Azores, H. macrophylla is now very common, particularly on Faial, which is known as the "blue island" due to the vast number of hydrangeas present on the island.[citation needed]
‘Hydrangea’ is derived from Greek and means ‘water vessel’, which is in reference to the shape of its seed capsules.[3] The earlier name, Hortensia, is a Latinised version of the French given name Hortense, referring to the wife of Jean-André Lepaute.[4]
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea
Blue hydrangeas are among my favorite garden plants. Hydrangeas are very sensitive to soil acidity. When I purchased this bush, the flowers were deep blue, but have come up pink every year afterwards. This year, after flowering had already begun, I added soil conditioners (traditionally aluminum sulfate is used) to lower the pH of the soil, making it weakly acidic. The hydrangea responded, with new buds producing a lavender/light blue flower. The pink flowers had already blossomed and the effect on them is minimal...the result, a hydrangea with both pink and blue flowers.