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My Hydrangeas just started blooming.
家のアジサイ咲き始めました。
他のアジサイはまだ青みを帯びていないがヤマアジサイだけは先行して青くなっている。海峡と呼ばれる小振りなアジサイ。昨年植物園で入手し育てたものです。
一見雨上がりのように見えますが実は水やりの後です。
Hydrangea (/haɪˈdreɪndʒ(i)ə/; common names hydrangea or hortensia) is a genus of 70-75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas, and Indonesia) and the Americas. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Japan, and Korea. 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.
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.
Species in the related genus Schizophragma, also in Hydrangeaceae, are also often known as hydrangeas. Schizophragma hydrangeoides and Hydrangea petiolaris are both commonly known as climbing hydrangeas.
There are two flower arrangements in hydrangeas. Mophead flowers are large round flowerheads resembling pom-poms or, as the name implies, the head of a mop. In contrast, lacecap flowers bear round, flat flowerheads with a center core of subdued, fertile flowers surrounded by outer rings of showy, sterile flowers. The flowers of some rhododendrons can appear similar to those of some hydrangeas, but Rhododendron (including azalea) is in a different order.
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These hydrangeas start off with the palest shade of lavender, and as they age and dry up, they deepen to an intense purple. They have the most delicious powdery scent!
7 Days of Shooting, Week #26: The Colour Purple-- Worn and Weathered Thursday
Hydrangea, on a black background. Edited on Lightroom, taken at Benmore Botanic Gardens, near Dunoon, Cowal, Scotland.
The hydrangea shrubs in my garden are getting ready to flower as Australia heads into yet another Summer. The accompanying image is from a past season and for this year I'm thinking that I'll attempt to change it's descendants colour to pink by feeding it with soil ph conditioner.
Hydrangeas are wonderful, hardy shrubs that would certainly have to be included on a list of the ten best flowering plants in the world.
Hydrangeas are amazingly versatile in that you can actually alter the flower colours to suit your needs. The flower colour in most forms relates to the acidity or alkalinity of the soil.
In acid soil (pH 5 or less) hydrangeas are usually always blue.
As the soil pH climbs towards the neutral and alkaline end of the scale (pH 7 or more) hydrangeas turn mauve, pink and red.
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