Woe is me. I moved a lot of them into the wrong place. Been watching the sun...8 now get full sun at noon. Wilt city a go go. Actually bot large patio umbrellas to shade them. I had to cut some deep roots to transplant, but even with deep roots, this is the wrong place for hydrangeas. Too bad because they'd be beautiful there. I was fooled into thinking I had no full sun because I had monstrous foundation plantings that shaded everything out for 20 years. I've taken the hydrangeas back to year 1 and will need to move them again next year. Ugh. They're now in a perfect place for roses, if that tells you how wrong their placement is.

Another complication is that all the trees that shade my gardens are cracking in half at their 100 year maturity or being nailed by the winter moth. Pretty scarey. I mean nailed. So far, it's a MA thing, but pretty horrible.

Defoliated trees. I did a search and found out that one year's defoliation doesn't kill a tree, but it's so sad to see a tree mauled.

Back to ES, one of my neighbors told me she saw an $84 Endless Summer at a pricey garden center. I saw 1 gallons at Home Depot for what I paid 4 years ago for 2 gallons. Well worth the money.

I have room elsewhere, but the first location was perfect. Shade by noon under a poor tree now stressed by the moth. We are talking bare branches.

ES were just too huge for the perfect spot....they got to be about 5-6 feet last year. I will give some thot to pruning them to my liking in the perfect spot as I plan for next year. I'm flipping out because this beautiful plant is not fitting in to my landscape. And lord knows if we can save the tree that makes it perfect.

Lordy, what do I do with full sun? Don't even answer, I'm building pergolas and kicking myself about pulling all those little maple trees as weeds. Things change. Wow, do they ever.