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Hydrangea macrophylla
Hydrangea macrophylla is a species of Hydrangea native to Japan. Common names include Bigleaf Hydrangea, French Hydrangea, Lacecap Hydrangea, Mophead Hydrangea, Penny Mac and Hortensia. It is widely cultivated in many parts of the world in many climates.
Hydrangea macrophylla blossoms can be either pink, blue, or purple shades.
In the last year my Mom cut and dried over 100 hydrangea flowers from the garden and decorated this years Christmas tree with them. It’s quite a sight.
Hydrangeas are deciduous shrubs or small trees. They are grown for their beautiful domed or flattened flowers which appear in mid-summer for a month.
The flowers normally consist of a mass of fertile flowers surrounded by infertile flowers which give the hydrangea its large flower heads. Some varieties however have almost all sterile flowers.
Hydrangea arborescens and quercifolia are natives of North America, Hydrangea serratifolia is native to South America. The remainder of hydrangeas are natives East Asia.
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Hydrangea blossoms can vary from pink to blue, depending on the amount of aluminum in the soil. (Alcoa may want to mine here.)
The blossoms of Hydrangeas are normally globes of flowers, but these are a variety that blooms in flat-topped bunches.
Fading hydrangea, on their way out, (kind of like summertime) but still pretty, sitting on an old weathered table in the yard at my sister's vacation house.
Long day today ... 3 hour drive to soccer, soccer game with too much sun and wind (3-0 win, YEY!), then back to college to take my daughter to dinner, then to Walmart to buy YET MORE STUFF to shove into her dorm room, then drive home. Tomorrow we do it again. I'm going to get really sick of sitting in the car. Now...wishing I had put sunscreen on my face and not just on my arms, I am going to bed and hoping my face won't still be BRIGHT RED in the morning. (what a dope I am!)
A visitor to the High Line photographs the lovely, blooming Limelight hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight') at 16th street.
Mix border of Annabelle, Limelight, and an unknown aborscens. Golden Shadows pagodo dogwood just barely in the picture. the mystery hydrangea was causing the other plants to grow at funny angles, so it was hack and slashed to the ground. Finesse scultping was provided to the cultivars.
Lightroom lesson from Kim Klassen. This stuff does not come easy to me and I so appreciate Kim's lessons.
Peggy Porschen Inspired Hydrangea Cupcakes. More information on these cupcakes can be viewed on my blog cakesetcbydana.blogspot.com/2011/07/peggy-porschen-inspir...
I am now carrying the Hydrangea cutter and veiner set in my store. astore.amazon.com/cakeetcbyda-20/detail/B004E5ZXA4 I also have the Peggy Porschen book astore.amazon.com/cakeetcbyda-20/detail/0307464555