A pink hydrangea in Mum's garden.

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while not as exotic as the protea I posted yesterday, I was quite taken by the beauty of all the colors of hydrangea at the Botanical Garden! I took some artistic liberties with this one... two more shots below.

at the Kula Botanical Garden, in Kula, Maui, Hawaii (4-28-11)

Kula Botanical Garden

Seen in a beautiful garden in Kaikoura NZ

St. Johns Arboretum, Isle of Man.

Hydrangea

hydrangeas

Hydrangea macrophylla, blue at Urban Jungle.

Hydrangea

Hydrangea in the North Garden of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

Dried plant

The Rainy season has come in JAPAN.

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,

Hydrangeas have the magical ability to change their colour depending on the PH levels in different soils.

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.

The Huntington Library and Botanic Gardens. San Marino. California.

HBW

DongWong M.C. Zoom Macro 1:3.5 - 4.5 F=35 - 70mm

this hydrangea i rescued after the neighbors pulled it out of their yard and left it by the roadside for a few days. i cut it back to nothing and now it's been two - three years and it's finally blooming. i was surprised how blue it was, but it is under fir trees and surrounded by woodchip mulch.

Hydrangea macrophylla

Hydrangea Arrangement

at Tower Hill Botanic Garden

Hydrangea

Taken by Etsuko.