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My husband and I saw a few of these bushes on our walk in a wooded area in a canyon by our house. We have walked the trails there for several years and never noticed them. They are growing wild by a creek and the best I can tell is that they are Hydrangea arborescens, commonly called Wild hydrangea, Smooth hydrangea, Sevenbark or Tree hydrangea. I'm a little hesitant about pronouncing what we saw as Wild Hydrangea because these bushes were in excess of 10 feet tall, the blooms were from 2.5 to 4.5 inches wide and growing here in the Pacific Northwest. Hydrangea arborescens grow on the East side of the country. If anyone has more expertise, I'd love to be corrected! This is one of the smaller blooms submitted for Macro Mondays Group Theme: Into the Woods.
We normally see plenty of butterflies in our garden but this year there have been very few!
When I spotted this welcome visitor I just had to try to take its portrait!
The lovely green flower is the hydrangea Lime Rickey.
I planted 24. 16 successfully rooted. The more successful plants are the cuttings that had all leaves removed. As you can see in photo, only 3 "cut" leaves succeeded. The rest were stem only cuttings and have lovely new leaf life and roots.
Some lovely wild hydrangea seed heads at Chilworth Gunpowder Mills this afternoon. I prefer these to the garden variety, less showy.
It lacks the large outer sterile bracts that one would expect on this species, but apparently some wild populations lack those.
Lighting is both from behind (afternoon sunlight) and in front (camera's flash, very much diffused and reduced by a piece of taped-over white plastic). And even I composed to crop part of the leaf off, I wish that I had done even more so that the eyes will concentrate on only one side of the serrated edge.
It lacks the large outer sterile bracts that one would expect on this species, but apparently some wild populations lack those.
Latin Name:Hydrangeaarborescens cv. Annabelle/和名：紫陽花アナベル
Taken at the Akao Herb and Rose Garden at Atami.
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A hydrangea native to the eastern US.
3-5ft (1-1.7m) high and wide, spreading even wider with time. The flowers on ours are often near 12in (30cm) across.
Zones 4-9
Day trip to a couple of upstate South Carolina's Heritage Preserves for some early Summer wildflowers. Lots of color but no big surprises. I saw a couple of native orchid species as well as some carnivorous plant species. There's something blooming up there almost any time of the year.