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Most people think the large three and four petaled bract are the blooms of the hydrangea but they are not. careful examination of this image will reveal a small five petaled bloom which is a complete flower with stamen pollen and pestal. the sexual parts necessary for seed production. The small pear shaped are buds which will produce more blooms.
Zellerbach Garden
San Francisco Botanical Garden ✿ Strybing Arboretum
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
April 2021
Hydrangea flowers are produced from early spring to late autumn; they grow in flowerheads (corymbs or panicles) most often at the ends of the stems. Typically the flowerheads contain two types of flowers: small non-showy flowers in the center or interior of the flowerhead, and large, showy flowers with large colorful sepals (tepals). These showy flowers are often extended in a ring, or to the exterior of the small flowers. Plants in wild populations typically have few to none of the showy flowers, while cultivated hydrangeas have been bred and selected to have more of the larger type flowers.
The name Hydrangea is derived from Greek and means ‘water vessel’ (hydria), in reference to the shape of its seed capsules.
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July 31, 2014.
The hydrangeas before the deer showed up and devoured them. Oh, well.
The sandbag dike had not only been protecting the house from the flood waters, but also the gardens from the deer. Not anymore. Now that most of the sandbags have been removed, the deer have returned to their all-you-can-eat buffet. Time for other protection measures.
Zellerbach Garden
San Francisco Botanical Garden ✿ Strybing Arboretum
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
April 2021
Hydrangea flowers, when cut, dehydrate easily and wilt very fast due to the large surface area of the petals.
20210402_173131 Hydrangea at Zellerbach
Hydrangea 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.
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Pink Hydrangea
by Rainer Maria Rilke
( translation: Walter Arndt )
Who thought such pink could be? Who knew it there
Accumulating in each blushing cluster?
Like gilded things which by and by unluster
They gently grow unred as if from wear.
That one should give such rosiness out free!
Does it stay theirs still, smiling where it went?
Are angels there to take it tenderly like a scent?
Or, it may be, they only let it go
That it might never learn of overblowing.
Beneath this pink there lurked a greenness, though,
Which listened and now fades away, all knowing.
Hydrangea macrophylla subsp. macrophylla (Hydrangea)
Flowers at Kula Botanical Garden, Maui, Hawaii.
March 07, 2011