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    Green thumbs up: Button up their overcoats  Nov 29, 2008
    The leaf and flower buds near the tips of dormant blue and pink hydrangea stems may be similarly damaged by winter desiccation ... Last winter, during our balmy January thaw, the application of an anti-desiccant spray to the swelling leaf buds along the stems enabled my Nikko blue hydrangea to produce its best floral display since its initial planting 15 years ago ... The new hydrangea introduction, Endless Summer, blooms on both old and new wood,ensuring blooms despite winter chills, but for a... (Kingston Mariner, MA)

    Plenty for a centerpiece  Nov 27, 2008
    His cornucopia design centers around pumpkins nestled into the form, then covered with sunflower, hydrangea and witch hazel silks, along with apples, grapes and even some artichokes. Preve's ideas are as plentiful as his cornucopia fillings. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)

    Mother's Garden: Thanksgiving and winters other holidays  Nov 25, 2008
    In the garden, some brown hydrangea heads may festoon a bush and red berries may tempt hungry birds but basically it's gone to sleep for the winter as days get shorter and darker. To cheer our souls through this dreary winter solstice (Dec. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)

    Birthday and Christmas Gifts for Li...  Nov 24, 2008
    Libra and its ruling planet Venus are also associated with a number of plants and flowers, including the rose, sweetpea, lily, daisy, hydrangea, foxglove, primrose, violet, and ivy. Associated herbs include parsley and mint, and Libra foods include potatoes, apples, chestnuts, walnuts, strawberries, cherries, and artichokes. (Suite101.com)

    Explorers brave Asian wilderness to gather seeds  Nov 21, 2008
    While Johnson and McMahan agreed this 40-day sojourn was too long, they did come back with seeds of some promising plants a hydrangea with a bloom measuring 18 inches across, a butterfly bush with white leaves, a Solomon s seal that is 6 feet tall and a magnolia vine with lush chains of red berries. Asked why he continues to go on these grueling trips (this was his sixth), McMahan replied, It s a passion. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    Take stock of what did well this year  Nov 13, 2008
    Hydrangea "Endless Summer," grown from a cutting by Dana Klinkhart, did well during last summer ... "The 'Endless Summer' hydrangea has to be at the top of my list of successful experiences this 2008 season. For the past two seasons I've taken a cutting from the mother plant in the fall and given it a start under lights until the following spring. It was then hardened off and planted in a warm part of the garden. "Each year my hopes that the mother plant or the child plant might bloom had not... (Anchorage Daily News)

    Wedding: Sara Whitney Lamb and Malcolm Neill Harris  Nov 7, 2008
    She wore an ivory ball gown with flower beading, and carried a bouquet of pink stargazer lilies, white hydrangea and yellow gerbera daisies. The maid of honor was Dawn Chance of LaFayette. (WWalker County Messenger, GA)

    Nov. planner  Nov 7, 2008
    Dry flower heads on hydrangea shrubs can be removed now but avoid pruning any more than you have to. Otherwise you ll diminish flowers for next summer. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    Buy plants like they're honey-baked hams  Oct 23, 2008
    Last fall, I bought a three-gallon Limelight peegee hydrangea for $17 ... Hydrangea quercifolia Amethyst : Gardeners are raving about this oakleaf hydrangea. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    Finding faith in the garden  Oct 20, 2008
    The ivy is still growing, and on the hydrangea bush in front of the house there is a single flower that is bright blue. Back in April, when the garden was waking up, I dug up a tree that hadn't survived the winter. (Boston Globe)

    Plants you can always count on  Oct 19, 2008
    n Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia): A great shrub that doesn t really start showing its true colors until Halloween. Rich, deep red, purple and orange last and last, often right up through the winter holidays. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)

    Plant lovers leave tips for Southern favorites  Oct 17, 2008
    Decumaria barbara, native climbing hydrangea. This semi-evergreen vine is happy climbing up into treetops or scrambling as a ground cover. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    Uncertain times call for thrifty gardening  Oct 10, 2008
    The other night at the American Hydrangea Society meeting, some very beautiful and unusual hydrangeas were raffled off. The Georgia Perennial Plant Association also has sales and raffles, and you can get some great plants for a very low price. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    Suitable Plants for Seaside Gardens  Oct 8, 2008
    Hydrangeas like a well drained soil ... It does well in coastal gardens and enjoys the same conditions as Hydrangea. (Suite101.com)

    Green Thoughts: Say Yes to Virginia  Oct 8, 2008
    Virginia creeper doesn't have the classy good looks of climbing hydrangea. True, I admit. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)

    Couple anticipate maturity of plants  Oct 3, 2008
    Their garden is full of color and variety, with plants such as bright-red dinner plate hibiscus (named for its plate-size blooms); lespedeza, which blooms twice; red bottle brush plants; Pinky Winky hydrangeas; a Dooley bigleaf hydrangea; and a tulip popper that has bright-yellow blooms that look like tulips. Much of the garden is about a year old, but many plants are older, starting as potted plants the Sinclairs had when they lived in a rental home. (The Augusta Chronicle)

    Brooks Garcia offers tips on garden design  Oct 3, 2008
    ABG shrub border with crapemyrtle, hydrangea and russian sage ... Hydrangea paniculata Limelight and Hydrangea paniculata Tardiva ... Two late-blooming varieties of hydrangea that thrive in full sun. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    Prepare garden for winter now  Oct 3, 2008
    Some plants that stand out against a wintery backdrop: red-twig dogwood and oak-leaf hydrangea. The dogwood which sheds leaves in the fall and then its branches turn bright red. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    Nofziger - Field  Oct 3, 2008
    The bride wore a long gown of coral pink chiffon and carried a bouquet of matching roses, pink carnations, lavender liatris, hydrangea, and spider mums. Tim Nofziger escorted his mother to the nuptials. (Lebanon Express, OR)

    This week at the Farmers Market  Sep 24, 2008
    For outside and inside the home, giant potted mums were offered and the Maynard Community Gardeners have giant cut hydrangea blooms. In community news, supporters of the proposed dog park can stop by to sign the MayDOG group's petition. (Beacon Villager, MA)

    Black Walnut Toxicity  Sep 23, 2008
    Prevent Organic Lawn and Garden Damage from Juglone. Organic gardeners that host black walnut trees on their property must protect garden plants from the toxic juglone emitted by the trees' hulls, roots, and leaves. (Suite101.com)

     Artists/writers show masterfully explores the artistic process  Sep 20, 2008
    Summer has begun the slow murder / of its predecessor / the hydrangea sprawling over the daffodils, / the rose sharpening its spines on the anemones. Crosby s acrylic is a pastiche of flowers and trees. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)

    Fresh food and faces at Ag Day  Sep 19, 2008
    Jim Wayman, of Wayman Farm, gathers hydrangea for customers in Concord Center. Fresh food and faces at Ag Day. (Concord Journal, MA)

    Chosen One’  Sep 14, 2008
    Hibiscus, hydrangea, liatris, peonies, poppies, azaleas, roses and iris are just a few of her favorites to grow and paint. Her other passion is ceramics, which she jumped into in 2006 buying clay, a rolling pin and a kiln. (Helena Independent Record, MT)

    Hooray for hydrangeas!  Sep 14, 2008
    Free News Saturday, September 13, 2008 12:18 PM EDT Hooray for hydrangeas ... By Dawn Pettinelli / Special to the Press Hydrangeas ... For years hydrangeas, tended to be rather neglected plants in the landscape. (Westerly Sun, RI)

    Driver beware: Buckle up on these scary roads  Sep 13, 2008
    Cobblestones pave parts of its length, it's slippery and dangerous at the sharp turns, and hydrangea plants push in to line the lush lane with blue flowers. Deal of the Day. (MSNBC -- Travel)

    Does size really count?  Sep 13, 2008
    Last Updated: 11:06am 12 Sep 2008. 4 22 SPONSORED LINKS. (iAfrica.com)

    Shaw, Cassidy united in marriage (34)  Sep 7, 2008
    She carried a bouquet of white roses, calla lilies, hydrangea, freesia, ranaculus and lisianthus. Laura Ely of Raleigh was maid of honor. (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)

    Focal Plants for all Season Gardens  Aug 28, 2008
    Other suitable summer focal plants are , or Mophead Hydrangea. Autumn Focal Plants. (Suite101.com)

    Green thumbs up: Heavenly hibiscus  Aug 27, 2008
    Foliage may be rounded, reminiscent of hydrangea leaves, or attractively lobed and dissected, resembling cut-leaf maple leaves. Broad, circular blooms often reach dramatic proportions up to 12 inches across, in shades of pink, red and white, many of which display a contrasting red eye. (Kingston Mariner, MA)

    Cultivating the beauty of late-summer gardens  Aug 21, 2008
    Some of the items Perry suggests are peegee hydrangeas, rosehips, ornamental grasses, fern fronds, the plumes of purple smoke bush, the leaves of variegated weigela, and the bold colors offered by sweet potato vines and coral bells ... For butterfly bush and hydrangea stems, place cut stems into warm to hot water immediately after cutting ... For butterfly bush and hydrangea stems, place cut stems into warm to hot water immediately after cutting. (Boston Globe)

    GV?Gardeners: Iron deficiency in landscape plants  Aug 17, 2008
    Among the vulnerable are popular plants such as bottlebrush, pyracantha, nandina, hibiscus, privet, photinia, Indian hawthorn, gardenia, hydrangea, roses, peach and citrus trees. Native and desert-adapted plants are able to get the iron they need despite alkaline soil. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)

    Gillespie - Waggenspack  Aug 17, 2008
    A double ring ceremony was officiated by The Reverend Gerald Sevick before an alter decorated with white gladioli, roses, blue hydrangea, delphinium, lavender statice, curly willow and greenery ... The bride carried a garden bouquet of ivory roses, white peonies, freesia, lasianthus, orchids, blue hydrangea and stems wrapped with blue ribbon ... They carried garden bouquets of blue hydrangea, dark blue delphinium, cornflower, lavender roses and statice with stems wrapped in blue ribbon. (Conroe Courier, TX)

    Add some color to your summer  Aug 17, 2008
    Sitting on our neighbor s front porch last night, watching the last bit of golden twilight guild the daylilies, hydrangea blossoms, rippling grasses and coneflowers that merge our two gardens, it felt as if summer might last forever. Mild evening temperatures, delicious floral scents, billowing mounds of color and ripening edibles make mid-August a time of bittersweet perfection. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)

    Pet Ohana: Sago palm toxic to dogs, cats  Aug 15, 2008
    A: Azaleas, oleander, mother-in-law plant, hydrangea, elephant ears, aloe vera, ivy and bird of paradise are also toxic. Lilies are highly toxic to cats. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)

    Avondale garden: Built from scratch  Aug 15, 2008
    From the soft-edged raised beds George built to prevent Lin from getting splinters to the Blushing Bride hydrangea they planted in honor of their daughter s at-home wedding, the Inlows say their garden is a deeply personal expression of themselves and their family. There were moments we sounded like the Bickersons out in the garden; we both have strong opinions, Lin joked. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Homemade ice cream just a bad memory  Aug 12, 2008
    Melissa is in Columbus, Ohio, touring the city's Park of Roses, which she says has nothing on Pendleton King Park's Hydrangea Garden. . (The Augusta Chronicle)

    Shrubs for Bright Fall Foliage  Aug 11, 2008
    Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia) - Zones 5-9. While hydrangea shrubs are often planted in the landscape for the large, spring flower clusters, the oak leaf hydrangea also provides spectacular autumn color ... Oakleaf hydrangeas make good medium-large shrubs for a perennial plant backdrop, woodland garden, or loose hedge. (Suite101.com)

    Vince Dooley's other passion: Gardening  Aug 9, 2008
    Dirr is also behind the 'Dooley' hydrangea, a rich blue variety praised for its hardiness ... The poolside patio, once the locale for pre-football festivities, now houses containers of hydrangeas and Japanese maples. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    English Style Gardens  Aug 5, 2008
    Other plants that will give you a good profusion of color and shape are: iris, foxglove, rose, canna, tulip, ornamental grass, peony, poppy, daisy, black eyed Susan, salvia, larkspur, hydrangea, aster, lavender, daylily, and dianthus. Don t forget to include herbs like savory, oregano, marjoram, parsley (curly makes a good border), rosemary, and thyme. (Suite101.com)

    Portrait of a neighborhood: Frank Jones Farm and Maplewood Acres  Aug 2, 2008
    There's also mountain ash "I believe descendants of Jones' trees," a Shagbark hickory and a European ginger reaching skyward above the raised beds of Joe pye weed, trumpet vine, hydrangea, ferns, rhododendrons and other plants. The resident says there are a lot of beautiful gardens tucked away, a busy area's retreats. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    After daylily picking  Jul 31, 2008
    We will lounge in the breezeway at home framed by our blue hydrangea 'Endless Summer. And before they leave perhaps they will help me to pluck off the spent blossoms of 'Sandra Elizabeth. (Littleton Independent, MA)

    Baker - Williams Wedding  Jul 27, 2008
    The end of each pew was lighted with candles and decorated with pink roses and pink hydrangea ... The bride carried a bouquet of pink Katrina and Esperance roses with white hydrangea. (Conroe Courier, TX)

    Using shrubs in a mixed border  Jul 24, 2008
    Other shrubs I include in my border are small roses, Hydrangea paniculata 'Tardiva' and a type of Ninebark called Physocarpus opulifolius 'Coppertina' with coppery-orange foliage that turns more of a dark red in summer and fall ... Airy'; Hibiscus syriacus 'Bluebird,' 'Diana,' 'Minerva'; Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight'; Hypericum 'Hidcote'; Rosa 'Knockout'; Rosa 'Weopop'; Spiraea thunbergii 'Ogon'; Viburnum carlesii 'Compactum'; Viburnum macrocephalum; and Weigelia florida 'Wine and Roses. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    GARDEN Q&A: Hydrangea's spots caused by fungus  Jul 22, 2008
    My hydrangea was a thing of great beauty, but now it has developed brown spots on the leaves ... There are several that will attack hydrangeas, but it isn't all that important to know their names in order to treat the plants. (Florida Times-Union)

    $4 bets aren't on the money yet  Jul 18, 2008
    Finally, Melissa is in Columbus, Ohio, touring the city's Park of Roses, which she says has nothing on the Hydrangea Garden at Augusta's Pendleton King Park. . (The Augusta Chronicle)

    Transform side yard into inviting space  Jul 17, 2008
    AFTER: The addition of an arched gate, cypress mulch, paver walkway and hydrangea border totally transformed Napier's garden. Miriam Napier, whose Buckhead garden was on the American Hydrangea Society's tour June 14, is a good example of someone who took a shady, unusable area on the side of her house and turned it into an inviting pass-through garden ... "Actually, I saw it as an excuse to put in even more hydrangeas," says Napier, who has over 50 different hydrangea varieties, many of which... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Sandwich museum has its own magic gardens  Jul 13, 2008
    "It's an educational component with an interpretive history of how the cranberry-growing industry got started on the Cape," says Judith I. Selleck, the museums' director of marketing, who adds that a hydrangea garden also will be planted during the summer. This month the renovated American History Museum will showcase "Lost Gardens of New England and Cape Cod," an exhibit of photos and memorabilia, co-hosted by Historic New England. (Boston Globe)

    Meet these cool garden relatives  Jul 3, 2008
    Hydrangea quercifolia 'Little Honey. MARTHA TATE. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Osterville Library pays tribute to a friend  Jul 3, 2008
    The wood-carved design of the bookplate was created by Sandy Connors and features an Emily Dickinson quote, hydrangea and other native Cape Cod plants and flowers, a seashell and the monogram of Joyce Phillips. The fact that her name will now be attached to some of these books is just amazing, said Tom Phillips at Monday s ceremony. (Yarmouth Register, MA)

    All-American arrangements  Jul 1, 2008
    Our favorite among the designs, originally created for events held during the 2004 Democratic National Convention, features blue hydrangea, blue thistle, and an American flag. (left, $125). (Boston Globe)

    Tickets now available for garden walk and plant sale  Jun 30, 2008
    Raised planters and antique panel edges hold specimen trees including Japanese maples, hydrangea bushes, tree lilacs, a serviceberry and and old amur maple ... Hostas, hydrangeas and flowering native plants complete the picture. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)

    Oakleaf hydrangea: Shrub has four-season appeal  Jun 26, 2008
    Common name: Oakleaf hydrangea. Genus/species: Hydrangea quercifolia ... Family: Hydrangeaceae. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Enliven your garden  Jun 23, 2008
    We are the gardeners that revel in being the first ones on the block to have a new hydrangea or heirloom tomato variety. It is the excitement of taking risks on new and untried plants that drives us. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)

    Holmen tour features a garden with structure  Jun 22, 2008
    Sure, there s a beautiful lacecap hydrangea and a graceful weeping mulberry. But the front yard is sedate compared with what waits beyond the arbor built by Jon and decorated with vines grown by Deen. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    Fit for a queen  Jun 21, 2008
    Beds closer to the house hew to its blue, pink and white palette and are filled with foxglove, larkspur, bluebells, phlox, hydrangea and fritillary ... The couple are also caretakers of a few antiques in the garden -- a Concord grapevine with a 6-inch-thick trunk that fills an old iron arbor with grapes each fall and a panicle hydrangea that has become a 15-foot-tall tree. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Rhode Island Wild Plant Society planning garden tour  Jun 20, 2008
    Learn how he has managed to create and maintain an outstanding garden of rhododendron, hydrangea from his own cuttings, specimen trees, perennials and veggie plants when you visit his garden. A woodland paradise welcomes you at this peaceful garden overlooking Barbers Pond, planned and created by Karen and Dr. Ira Asher. (Westerly Sun, RI)

    South End garden tour reveals leafy treasures  Jun 19, 2008
    At once a garden and a funky folk-art collection, the space features a chunk timber bench under a climbing white hydrangea, headless iron statues, cobblestones and homemade trellises, African masks, a stone bird feeder, and an iron Moravian star, along with hibiscus, lavender, and rose bushes. His construction background inspires him to "plant things that last," DeBord says, which is fitting since his garden will live on in celluloid history as a setting for the upcoming Kate Hudson, Dane Cook... (Boston Globe)

    Check out Smith-Gilbert Arboretum's Friday garden walks  Jun 14, 2008
    Betty Edwards walks with a group from Kennesaw United Methodist Church past an Oak Leaf hydrangea at Smith-Gilbert Arboretum. Located in Kennesaw at 2382 Pine Mountain Road, the arboretum has 16 pastoral acres filled with over 3,000 trees, shrubs and flowers. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    Shopping Sally Socolich's recommended sales  Jun 12, 2008
    50 on a shell wreath, three hanging seashell balls, a dried hydrangea in a pot, a pillar candle pedestal wrapped in dried purple flowers and three silk flowers. Nothing on my list, but I easily found spots for all of it when I got home. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Wedding Flowers For Less  Jun 8, 2008
    Incorporate large, single-hued flowers, such as hydrangeas, into your table decorations and bouquets ... It used pink hydrangeas and white linens ... Other flowers in season now include calla lily, dahlia, gardenia, gerber daisy, hydrangea, lily, sunflower, rose and daisy. (CBS News -- Early Show)

    Stopping by a garden in the woods  Jun 8, 2008
    For her, that means plenty of bleeding heart, fern, lamium, astilbe, goat s beard and hydrangea. And where they have limbed up the trees to create pockets of sunshine, there are clematis and peonies and daisies. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    More park projects grow from sale  Jun 5, 2008
    From her vantage point behind the plastic tape, which kept shoppers at the Franke Pavilion at bay until 10 a.m. Saturday, Betty Perry scoped out the hydrangeas she wanted to purchase. "You can never have too many hydrangeas," said Ms. Perry, one of more than 100 people who were in line when the tape was removed, and shoppers entered the area as the William Tell Overture played ... In only four years, the annual hydrangea sale has become quite popular, said Kay Mills, a member of the Pendleton... (The Augusta Chronicle)

    Help hydrangeas make comeback  Jun 5, 2008
    Damaged hydrangeas need help to make a comeback ... On May 30, 2006, I stood in a field in France and made a proclamation in front of Corinne Mallet, one of the world's leading experts on hydrangeas ... Atlanta, I said, was about as good as it gets when it comes to growing what old-timers call French hydrangeas. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Whimsy, formality and down-home style  May 30, 2008
    A few azaleas dotted the yard along with an occasional oak leaf hydrangea ... Getting Polanized'Because the Thompsons' property is largely shaded, the couple has added more azaleas and lots of wild ferns, hostas, oak leaf hydrangeas, Japanese maples, sweet bay magnolias, dogwoods, redbuds and crape myrtles. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)

    'I've gardened all my life': Shobe finds job tending the grounds at EIU not much like work  May 25, 2008
    There are dogwood trees, holly, azaleas, climbing hydrangea, rhododendron, hostas, a weeping copper beech tree, wisteria, and a couple of Scotch broom trees, to name only a few. There is also a tall, thin tree called a curly lamppost maple with branches only inches long. The tree is a cultivar of a Norway maple, which looks similar to one on campus that can be seen from Lincoln Avenue. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)

    Hydrangeas: The swans of the garden  May 24, 2008
    Although hydrangeas are considered the ugly ducklings of winter, the spring transformation is worth the wait ... There are about 23 species of hydrangeas, but only five are common in the nursery trade ... The most popular species is Hydrangea macrophylla, also referred to as big-leaf, snowball bush, French hydrangea and florist hydrangea. (Florida Times-Union)

    Hamilton NZ Wedding Locations  May 22, 2008
    The Waikato's most famous old homestead, Woodlands is full of beautiful photo opportunities with its old-fashioned staircases, giant NZ native trees, Monet-style bridges and hydrangea walks. A function centre and on-site caterers can accommodate fairly large receptions. (Suite101.com)

    This side up: living walls come to Chelsea  May 17, 2008
    Even the interwoven bare stems of deciduous climbers, such as wisteria or climbing hydrangea, can reduce windchill by trapping air ... He also likes climbing hydrangea, and for domestic use, he recommends the dreaded ivy. (Independent)

    It's time to look at new plants that we love  May 10, 2008
    Garden element series of premium annuals; Tri-color Japanese maple 'Shirazz'; Gold Series tropical hibiscus; 'Knock Out' and 'New Pink Double' roses; 'Pinky Winky,' 'Blushing Bride' and 'Endless Summer' hydrangeas; Dr. Earth Organic plant food and a new selection of self-watering pots ... Also, many types of rhododendrons, hydrangeas, ornamental grasses and fragrant viburnums ... Shrubs: 'French Lace' weigela, 'Nikko Dooley' hydrangea and Siberian cypress. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    More of this story...  May 10, 2008
    Hydrangea means water barrel' and refers to the shape of the fruit after it has sprung open. In any case hydrangeas need lots of water. (The Exeter Sun, CA)

    Plantsmen make discoveries that affect your garden  May 8, 2008
    Retired University of Georgia professor Mike Dirr is famous for his "Manual of Woody Landscape Plants" and two newer books on hydrangeas and viburnums. He's also made scores of important introductions, including the repeat-blooming Hydrangea macrophylla "Endless Summer," sometimes dubbed as the "great blue hope" for northern gardeners ... From 2004 until the end of 2007, more than 7 million of these hydrangeas were sold across the world, with millions more arriving in nurseries this year. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    Plant lust for cultivars  May 4, 2008
    n Pinky Winky hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata DVPpinky): A terrific, drought-tolerant form that should prove ideal for our hot, dry summers ... Expect this hydrangea to reach a height and width of about six to eight feet. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)

    Hydrangeas do best outside  May 3, 2008
    Times-Union fileHydrangeas don't make good houseplants ... Can I keep a hydrangea as a houseplant ... Although potted big-leaf hydrangeas are sold in the spring with houseplants, this shrub isn't suited for growing indoors (unless you have a greenhouse). (Florida Times-Union)

    Hydrangeas will replace blooms  May 2, 2008
    Remontant hydrangeas will keep replacing blooms 050208 - The Augusta Chronicle ... Every gardener I know loves hydrangeas, the blue flowers of summer ... There is a solution: remontant (reflowering) hydrangeas. (The Augusta Chronicle)

    Local garden shops offer new plants for 2008  May 2, 2008
    Hydrangea is a staple in landscape design, but the new Endless Summer offers added bloom time for gardeners. Like other hydrangea, the blooms on this stunning plant are pink in alkaline soils and blue in acidic soils. (Pembroke Mariner, MA)

    On the job: In charge at nursery  Apr 21, 2008
    We ve had up to 90 different varieties of hosta and 50 kinds of hydrangea here. There s always something different. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    How to get a buyer to fall in love with your house  Apr 19, 2008
    "The shrubbery here needs to be 'beefier.' I would contour the border to match the shape of the bay and back up those boxwoods with maybe some hydrangeas to give more substance to the foundation plantings. The hydrangeas would provide color in the summer and winter interest with their dried flower heads. A small trellis on the right side of the bay would allow for a vine like a jasmine or maybe a 'Lady Banks' rose, which would climb up the house and soften all that white. And there should be a... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    Dear Lily: Can I plant my bulbs now?  Apr 18, 2008
    Dear Lily, I have a hydrangea that has never bloomed after the first year ... First, the hydrangea might not get enough sun and receives too much shade ... Secondly, improper pruning and thirdly weather-related damage to the flower buds could have occurred depending on the type of hydrangea you have. (Hopkinton Town Crier, MA)

    Shoe Designer Christian Louboutin: Sole Man  Apr 18, 2008
    Another, more successful idea was embedding hydrangea petals in a clear silicone heel. He even tapped into the recycling trend with his "trash" shoes, which incorporated old mtro tickets and caf receipts in the heels. (Time.com)

    Visit Manguel's 'Library at 'Night'  Apr 16, 2008
    The ancient wall continued to serve as a property divider, looking onto a farmer's field on one side and shading the presbytery's magnolia tree and bushes of hydrangea on the -other. As soon as I saw the wall and the scattered stones around it, I knew that here was where I would build the room to house my books. (USA Today -- Life)

    Couple tends park's garden  Apr 14, 2008
    She started the hydrangea garden, and the annual hydrangea show and sale, as well as the yearly plant swap, according to Will Bowman, who, along with his wife, Kay, is also a dedicated Pendleton King Park volunteer ... Among the Mills and Bowman family endeavors at the park, the most impressive is the hydrangea garden they and others created ... They raised the money to build a pergola and brick commemorative fence and gate, built the pergola, put in an irrigation system, hauled the mulch the... (The Augusta Chronicle)

    Color of hydrangea can be changed, but it takes time  Apr 12, 2008
    KIM KIM FOSTER-TOBIN/The StateTo get blue flowers on a hydrangea, increase the acidity in the soil ... Could you please tell me how I can get my hydrangeas to change color ... The people who have the most control over the color of their hydrangeas are those who grow them in containers. (Florida Times-Union)

    Perfect shrubs  Apr 11, 2008
    Hydrangea paniculata Panicle or grape cluster flowering types prefer full sun and bloom on current season's (new) wood so they can be pruned heavily in early spring. "Pinkie Winkie" produces a bi-color pink and white bloom that can be used in the perennial, cutting garden as well as the landscape. (Cleveland.com)

    Mother's Garden: Spring is cleanup time  Apr 9, 2008
    Lightly prune summer blooming shrubs like Rose of Sharon and Hydrangea before they set this year's flower buds in May. Prune roses now too. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)

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