The mysteries of the hydrangea
Last summer Sam alerted me to “something blue” in the border next to the driveway. I investigated and found a little hydrangea bush with a single blossom on it. I’m not a huge fan of hydrangeas, so I didn’t think about it much. I didn’t plant it – it must have been the previous owners. We moved here in 2016, so it had been alive all that time? I didn’t give it any care, being busy with other things. Plus our hoses don’t easily reach that area.
This year – wow! Hydrangea bonanza! I guess this plant thrives on neglect?
Recently a friend of mine said out of the “blue” that it was a good hydrangea year. I guess so! What makes a good hydrangea year? Heat? We are getting some of our share of it now, but here in Maine we complain of heat when it’s in the 80s.
However it happened, I’m enjoying this hydrangea after all. A lace-cap, I think it’s called. I might even try to divide it. Any flowering perennial plants the deer don’t eat can be valuable in the summer, especially when they seem to thrive on neglect.
They are so interesting close up. Making me think of bougainvillea, a favorite, with those tiny flowers inside the larger flower. ????
I absolutely love bougainvillea. When I see them on a trip, I have a feeling of disbelief- like how can people function around something so beautiful!