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The hydrangea in my garden appear to be doing quite well this year. This particular one has produced an ‘ice-cream cone’ shaped bloom that was over 30cm long! That’s one foot long of beautiful, mellow creamy-white little flowerlet’s! I have another one that is quite similar in appearance but some of its little flowers have a pinky-red edge to them.
I love hydrangea!
I sometimes wonder if Hydrangeas ever stop flowering in Brittany; however I do know they do, but here is one beginning to bloom.
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Hydrangea blossoms are holding up well this year despite recent heavy rains. Flowers always have the ability to provide the feel good factor no matter what the weather.
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Saturday Self Challenge
This week in SSC let's use a "Shallow Depth of Field"
Your subject can be anything. I would like to see a real shallow depth of field in your photo with your subject in focus and your background nicely blurred.
Please keep post-processing to a minimum this week.
I decided to make the lone leaf the centre of attention for this picture rather than the flowers. I was going to attempt this shot outside, but constant thunder storms and torrential rain soon put a stop to that idea, seems we’ve had a one in a thousand your weather event here this week. The weight of the rain on the bushes had started to knock over the large hydrangea blooms, not to be put off, and not wanting the flower heads to be ruined I cut them off and put them in a vase indoors. Needless to say it’s not the only vase now, we’ve got a house full of them, all rescued from the weather.
The vase is stood in front of a window with trees outside, the reflection of the flowers can just be seen blurred out in front of the green of the trees.
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Hydrangea és un gènere de plantes amb flor de la família Hydrangeaceae. Les espècies d'aquest gènere es coneixen amb el nom comú d'hortènsia. Moltes espècies s'utilitzen com a plantes ornamentals.El gènere Hydrangea inclou plantes ornamentals, comunament conegudes com a hortènsies, natives del sud i l'est d'Àsia (concretament de la Xina, Corea, l'Himàlaia, Indonèsia i el Japó) i d'Amèrica. La diversitat més gran d'espècies d'aquest gènere es troba a les zones de la Xina, Corea i el Japó.
La majoria són arbustos dentre un a tres metres d'alçada, algunes són arbres petits i altres són lianes que poden aconseguir els trenta metres grimpant pels arbres. Poden ser de fulla caduca o de fulla perenne, no obstant les més àmpliament cultivades, que són espècies de climes temperats, són de fulla caduca. Comprèn dues-centes espècies descrites i d'aquestes només quaranta-tres acceptades.
Algunes espècies del gènere Schizophragma també es coneixen amb el nom comú d'hortènsies com és el cas de Schizophragma hydrangeoides'.
Les hortènsies neixen des del començament de la primavera fins a finals de la tardor; aquestes es troben agrupades en rams a l'extrem de les tiges. Cada flor individual d'hortènsia és relativament petita; no obstant això, el desplegament de color està augmentat per un cercle de bràctees modificades al voltant de cada flor.
Les seves flors poden ser roses, blanques, o blaves, depenent en part del pH del sòl.2 En sòls relativament àcids, amb pH entre 4,5 i 5, les flors es fan blaves; en terres més alcalins, amb pH entre 6 i 6,5, les flors adquireixen un color rosa; i en sòls alcalins amb pH al voltant de 8, les flors creixen blanques.
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The trail is bursting with blooming, wild, native oakleaf hydrangea shrubs.
DeKalb County (North Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
24 May 2024.
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▶ "Hydrangea quercifolia — commonly known as oakleaf hydrangea or oak-leaved hydrangea— is a deciduous shrub with white showy flower heads, in the family Hydrangeaceae, native to the southeastern United States, often in woodland habitats.
Hydrangea quercifolia grows to 3–12 feet tall (0.91–3.66 m). The leaves are yellowish green to dark green on top and silvery-white underneath, turning rich shades of red, bronze, and purple in autumn.
Hydrangea quercifolia flowers are borne in erect panicles [cone-shaped flower clusters] 6–12 inches tall (15.2–30.5 cm) and 3–5 inches wide (7.6–12.7 cm). Flowers age in color from creamy white to pink; by autumn and winter, they are a dry, papery rusty brown. Hydrangea quercifolia and Hydrangea paniculata are the only hydrangeas with panicles; all the others have their flowers in umbels [flat-topped clusters].
Its specific epithet combines the Latin words quercus ('oak') and folium ('leaf'). Although the plant's leaves vaguely resemble larger versions of oak tree leaves, it is not closely related to oak species."
— Wikipedia.
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Immediately after taking the shot, I looked up and saw ... this!
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