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Hydrangea, on a black background. Edited on Lightroom, taken at Benmore Botanic Gardens, near Dunoon, Cowal, Scotland.
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
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.
This Hydrangea bush is growing in my neighbour's garden and the flowers heads are much smaller than the blue Hydrangea that is growing in my garden, but I love the delicate colour of this bush.
My brother, who we recently visited for his birthday, has had a bad fall and broken his leg. He is disabled and has to walk with a frame, so I am not sure how he will recover from such an injury. It is so hard for us to get information at this stage as he lives so far away from us, but we are ringing and hopefully speaking to the doctor today. He has been having a lot of falls lately and hopefully they will be able to find out what is causing them.
Hydrangea wands!
These wands come with all 4 colors shown: pink,purple,blue & white
Touch the hydrangea to turn on/off the sparkles!
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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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Using backlight and against a white and a black background. Straigth-from-the-camera version is included too for comparison.
Gear: Canon 50mm/f1.8MK1 at f11 and macro extension tube.
Hydrangea Lace Collage
Today I spent an hour in the garden, everywhere was horrible and wet and uninspiring. I really needed to get rid of stuff to let the bulbs come through.
Whilst tidying I found a hydrangea head that I thought would look great for some macro photography.
I played around with different coloured gels on the speedlight to light a sheet of crumpled aluminium foil and then added a bit of water spray, both created some lovely bokeh.
I couldn't decide which I liked the most so I made a collage.
Hydrangea is a genus of 70–75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia and the Americas. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Japan, and Korea.
With immense flower heads, hydrangeas flaunt an old-fashioned charm that is hard to resist. Colors also beguile with clear blues, vibrant pinks, frosty whites, lavender, and rose—sometimes all blooming on the same plant!
The colors of some hydrangeas—especially mophead and lacecap—can change color based on the soil pH, which affects relative availability of aluminum ions. Acidic soils with a pH of less than 5.5 produce blue flowers; soils with a pH greater than 5.5 product pink flowers. White flowers are not affected by pH.
Unrivaled in the shrub world, these elegant ladies are easy to cultivate, tolerate almost any soil, and produce flowers in mid-summer through fall (when little else may be in bloom). Hydrangeas are excellent for a range of garden sites from group plantings to shrub borders to containers.
There are two flower arrangements in hydrangeas with Corymb style inflorescens, which includes the commonly grown Bigleaf hydrangea - Hydrangea macrophylla. 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, small flowers surrounded by outer rings of larger flowers having showy sepals or tepals. The flowers of some rhododendrons and viburnums can appear, at first glance, similar to those of some hydrangeas.
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I had looked forward to the Hydrangea flowering season but the really hot Summer shortened the normally several weeks long period. There are a few examples remaining in the shadier asections.
Dragoons, I tell you the white hydrangeas
turn rust and go soon.
Already mid September a line of brown runs
over them.
One sunset after another tracks the faces, the
petals.
Waiting, they look over the fence for what
way they go.
Carl Sandburg