Hydrangeas, capitol grounds, Columbia, South Carolina, May 2007

Drying hydrangea in sunlight.

Frost on Hydrangea leaves

hydrangea is called "ajisai" in japanese.

this is one of the symbol of japanese rainy season.

We're drying some hydrangeas that we grew at home here, very colorful while in the drying process.

Nikkor-P 105mm f2.5 on Nikon D70. Exposure 4 seconds, ISO 200, f11, preset white balance, and lit by 3 60watt bulbs.

The cool nights of September are tingeing the Hydrangea flowers with a lovely fuchsia color...

Hydrangea flowers bloom from the outside.

a baby hydrangea bush.

took this a few weeks ago, ummmmm..

yup :)

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Stunning Blue

Hydrangeas at the house

© Aurora Santiago

More details of our splendid hydrangea now the star our our top flower bed.

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Hydrangea macrophylla (アジサイ) in my next-door neighbor's garden on a rainy day

Hydrangea

Hydrangeas drying

Hydrangeas of the Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, Japan.

Shot at 1600 ISO by mistake, hence the grain... Sorry.

June 2008 Trip to Japan with Andrew.

pretty close up of the 'pink elf' hydrangea flowers

Hydrangea with adjusted color saturation

Hydrangea blossoms can vary from pink to blue, depending on the amount of aluminum in the soil. (Alcoa may want to mine here.)

The blossoms of Hydrangeas are normally globes of flowers, but these are a variety that blooms in flat-topped bunches.

Fading hydrangea, on their way out, (kind of like summertime) but still pretty, sitting on an old weathered table in the yard at my sister's vacation house.

Long day today ... 3 hour drive to soccer, soccer game with too much sun and wind (3-0 win, YEY!), then back to college to take my daughter to dinner, then to Walmart to buy YET MORE STUFF to shove into her dorm room, then drive home. Tomorrow we do it again. I'm going to get really sick of sitting in the car. Now...wishing I had put sunscreen on my face and not just on my arms, I am going to bed and hoping my face won't still be BRIGHT RED in the morning. (what a dope I am!)

hydrangea macrophylla

Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

A new Hydrangea plant that we planted at the cottage. It seems to be doing quite well up there.

Hydrangea. "Shikizaki-Hime-Ajisai".

紫陽花。品種名は「四季咲きヒメアジサイ」。

Hydrangea

A visitor to the High Line photographs the lovely, blooming Limelight hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight') at 16th street.

The Botanical Garden of the University of Latvia

Lightroom lesson from Kim Klassen. This stuff does not come easy to me and I so appreciate Kim's lessons.

105.0 mm f/2.8

Hydrangeas are deciduous shrubs or small trees. They are grown for their beautiful domed or flattened flowers which appear in mid-summer for a month.

The flowers normally consist of a mass of fertile flowers surrounded by infertile flowers which give the hydrangea its large flower heads. Some varieties however have almost all sterile flowers.

Hydrangea arborescens and quercifolia are natives of North America, Hydrangea serratifolia is native to South America. The remainder of hydrangeas are natives East Asia.

Peggy Porschen Inspired Hydrangea Cupcakes. More information on these cupcakes can be viewed on my blog cakesetcbydana.blogspot.com/2011/07/peggy-porschen-inspir...

I am now carrying the Hydrangea cutter and veiner set in my store. astore.amazon.com/cakeetcbyda-20/detail/B004E5ZXA4 I also have the Peggy Porschen book astore.amazon.com/cakeetcbyda-20/detail/0307464555

Hydrangea flowers with colors of pale yellow, ivory, purple, lavender and blue.