Here's one of mine. I got so fed up with it being a horrible colour and going all crispy at the drop of a hat, it's got to go. When the ground isn't like concrete, I'll dig it out.
(copied from a thread I mistakenly posted to instead of this one) Fair warning, these are not beautiful shots. Last week we visited our old home, which we still own but only visit a couple of times a year. These have had almost nothing done to them since we moved 8 years ago, and the photos were taken before I'd done any deadheading or pruning or weeding.
This is hydrangea macrophylla 'Homigo' (x3). It seems to be remontant and produces pink and purple blooms all season. There are a few buds and new blooms here, but it would be better with a regular pruning routine. It was originally underplanted with other things, but the hydrangeas have filled out the entire bed now. The blooms dry a darker pink. If we ever stay at the house longer than a few days at a time I may fiddle with color adjustment to see if they'll go blue.
This is a row of hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight'. The one in the foreground is probably about 10' tall. These need to be trimmed significantly since you can't see over them while standing on the porch but I couldn't bear cutting all those blooms off. They got trimmed back about two years ago because they were blocking the entire sidewalk. The biggest flowerheads are enormous - about a foot long and 8" diameter. Lesson - give 'limelight' plenty of space to shine!
Unfortunately it didn't rain at all at home while we were away, so my Georgia hydrangeas run the gamut from wilty to downright crispy.
The blooms on the white one are so heavy they’re on the ground.
Got a Vanilla Fraise but it’s very vanilla at the moment, will photograph it a bit later on. apart from the Fraise, mine are all from cuttings, got about 60 of them. About every 4th year they are cut right down to the ground in Spring, they’d grow far to big i we didn’t.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@edhelka, I planted this Hydrangea paniculata limelight last year, bought as a mature shrub so it must be over three years old. I was looking for something to light up a shady border which gets morning sun, in free draining, sandy soil.
I'm mightily impressed with its first show of flowers, the name is quite appropriate, particularly when the sun hits the flowers. I hope you can see this from the photos below.
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Here's one of mine.
I got so fed up with it being a horrible colour and going all crispy at the drop of a hat, it's got to go.
When the ground isn't like concrete, I'll dig it out.
This is hydrangea macrophylla 'Homigo' (x3). It seems to be remontant and produces pink and purple blooms all season. There are a few buds and new blooms here, but it would be better with a regular pruning routine. It was originally underplanted with other things, but the hydrangeas have filled out the entire bed now. The blooms dry a darker pink. If we ever stay at the house longer than a few days at a time I may fiddle with color adjustment to see if they'll go blue.
This is a row of hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight'. The one in the foreground is probably about 10' tall. These need to be trimmed significantly since you can't see over them while standing on the porch but I couldn't bear cutting all those blooms off. They got trimmed back about two years ago because they were blocking the entire sidewalk. The biggest flowerheads are enormous - about a foot long and 8" diameter. Lesson - give 'limelight' plenty of space to shine!
Unfortunately it didn't rain at all at home while we were away, so my Georgia hydrangeas run the gamut from wilty to downright crispy.
Cuttings planted along the lane outside our gate.
The blooms on the white one are so heavy they’re on the ground.
Got a Vanilla Fraise but it’s very vanilla at the moment, will photograph it a bit later on.
apart from the Fraise, mine are all from cuttings, got about 60 of them.
About every 4th year they are cut right down to the ground in Spring, they’d grow far to big i we didn’t.
I'm mightily impressed with its first show of flowers, the name is quite appropriate, particularly when the sun hits the flowers. I hope you can see this from the photos below.