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Have a Ball With Hydrangeas
Even if you don't tinker with the hue by changing the soil, hydrangeas have an entertaining range of uses in all kinds of landscapes
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The most common color for hydrangeas is white, but this flowering shrub can also bloom blue, pink, light purple, light green or dark purple. The color of the bloom is often determined by the pH level of the soil in which the hydrangea is planted — the same specimen could grow pink in alkaline soil and blue in acidic soil.
Whatever color you choose, a hydrangea is a wonderful addition to any home with its dramatic blooms. It is also beloved of gardeners as an addition to a cutting garden. With a few mature hydrangeas on your property, you may find you have more blossoms that you could ever need — meaning you'll have plenty to gift to friends.
Whatever color you choose, a hydrangea is a wonderful addition to any home with its dramatic blooms. It is also beloved of gardeners as an addition to a cutting garden. With a few mature hydrangeas on your property, you may find you have more blossoms that you could ever need — meaning you'll have plenty to gift to friends.
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| Husband-and-wife team Eric and Silvina Blasen have created a traditional garden for this San Francisco house. Limiting the palette to whites and greens, including a lime-green hydrangea bush, keeps the look fresh, not fussy. |
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These chartreuse hydrangeas are a perky welcome to this home by Bosworth Hoedemaker. The bush is growing a little leggy, which means the owners should prune more frequently.
| A Tarrytown, New York, terrace is planted with Hydrangea paniculata, whose flowers form a cone-shape panicle. While white blooms do not usually change color like pink or blue specimens, they may mature to pink in the fall. |
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| Timothy Lee Landscape Design surrounded this 'Endless Summer' hydrangea bush with nepeta, inkberry, viburnum and Siberian irises. |
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| This garden that combines traditional and modern motifs features fuchsia-hued hydrangeas planted with a ground cover of pebble gravel surrounding them. |
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A typical gingerbread cottage in the Oak Bluffs area of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, has purple-hued hydrangeas and green, leafy hostas.
| Frank & Grossman Landscape Contractors planted a border of petite hydrangeas for the 2006 San Francisco Designer Showcase. While they look adorable in this photo taken at the time, you would be wise to plant yours farther apart, as they will grow to be at least 3 feet high. |
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| Joe Weuste of Summerset Gardensnotes that you can have an impressive display like this in just two seasons of growth with the proper soil mix, fertilizer and water. (These second-year specimens were 5-gallon plants when installed.) |
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Hydrangea bushes create a border between the porch and the driveway of this home designed by Debra Kling. The bark mulch at the shrubs' bases is a smart way to extend the time between waterings in the hot summer months.
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Share your best hydrangea photo below!
Great design flowers:
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Slipper Plant | Snake Flower
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Rough Linen But what about the far more elegant lace caps? Or the climbing petiolaris, wonderful for a north wall?
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Erika Bierman Photography Beautiful!
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Debra Kling Colour Consultant Thank you, Laura, for including my work in your "hydrangea" story! I cannot take credit for the whole house-- just the exterior colors, which were, in fact, inspired by the hydrangea blooms!
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Mariska Delta, Ontario 
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KSID Studio, LLC I love Hydrangeas! These were last year's blooms! 
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Nora Tchobanian_Beylerian Love love love hydrangeas...
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Melissa Aliotti Here in the northern California valley, we rarely see white blooms - mostly pinks and blues. They make gorgeous baby shower arrangements!
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boston701 Here are some 3rd year Incrediball Hydrangea, which I'm really loving for their surprisingly long bloom time. The first year, they looked like dead sticks; had a couple of blooms in year 2; and then in typical perennial form, look great this year! 
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Grace Kyeyune Hey Laura, Do you think these flowers would grow in a tropical climate. (just rain and sunshine all year round?)
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Shonda I love my Hydrangeas. We can grow the very well here in Dallas, Texas 
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