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Watering a blue hydrangea

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  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
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  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    Lyn said:
    You can dream of this one if you like 😀
    Oh my!  <3  Heavenly! 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited August 2023
    Lyn said:
     I have very acid soil so mine are all blue,  except the white ones and a Vanilla Fraise. 
    The fertile flowerlets of the white ones go blue.  It makes the inflorescence look even bluer.

    Use commercial Hydrangea Bluer, or Alum/aluminium sulphate.  The latter, BTW, is used to treat drinking water.  It also is useful in improving the drainage of clay soil.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

  • Here's a bluer one.

    Actually, looking at the one from @Lyn this may be the very same place. I wonder?🤔
    This one is at Goodnestone Park Gardens in Kent.
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    I assumed it was Lyn's back garden!  :D


  • It may well be - in which case, I'm wrong  (which is frequent these days, I'm told).

    Sigh!
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Can anyone confirm my experience that hydrangeas dry better in their red manifestation?
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    edited August 2023
    I think it probably is @Lyn's garden. She posted pics a while back of some amazing hydrangeas. Huuuuge! And blue.

    Sorry bédé no idea.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    ViewAhead said:
    I assumed it was Lyn's back garden!  :D


    Mine are in my garden,  I have about 60 of them. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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