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Not quite sure how all this happened. It was raining so toddled out to our garden, camera in tow. I saw this hydrangea mostly covered by leaves from the angle I was at. So I clicked away and this is what turned up.
I fiddled around the Picnic, toned it up a bit with the temperature & colour bar added some vingette and framed it.
Hydrangea flower up close. Focus should have been a little further back, but the arrangement is interesting.
Seen in the garden of Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo, Italy.
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I was impressed how well and tall the Hydrangea grow in the gardens around the Village of Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.Though not native to Hawai’i, these colorful plants with 8 inch wide "pom-pom" blooms have earned the Hawaiian name “pōpōhau", which means snow-ball. The Hydrangea on the Big Island are mostly of Hydrangea macrophylla. This very popular variety came to Hawai'i from China and can be a wide range of colors, This plant was growing in the yard of the house where we stayed,
This is the ghost of a flower and even though its life is over, it retains a haunting beauty! I forgot to prune off the spent blossoms of this Hydrangea after it flowered last summer. It had the most brilliant, electric blue mophead blooms I have ever seen. It will have a good long rest, for now it won't bloom again until I give it a good haircut.
I'm in the market for some great glass.....this is my first ever shot with a macro. It's a Canon 100mm 2.8L that I rented to try before I buy....very much fun to shoot with!
Here are two more varieties of hydrangea. In the first comment column below is posted Lacecap Hydrangea and in the next, Limelight Hydrangea.
My mom has the most gorgeous hydrangea bushes. They do NOTHING to them - no water, no weeding, no pruning - and every year they are more beautiful than the last. Dammit I forgot to pick a bouquet to bring home. I have a puny little pink bush whose blooms would look lovely with the blue...