I’m sure you’ve seen beautiful hydrangeas of different colors. If you wish for a specific flower color on your hydrangeas, ...

If you find yourself enchanted by these garden gems, here are a few tips to help you choose the right hydrangea and keep it ...

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Vines can make a bold backdrop for your hydrangea plant when they're trellised behind them. The lush growth and bright blooms ...

Hydrangea flowers tend to turn blue in acid soils and turn pink if the soil is sweeter, or more alkaline. ... Prop the flowers up in a dark room and don’t refill the shot glass.

Although plants stay a demure three feet tall and wide, the flowers are nearly as big as a full-size hydrangea. The stocky, cone-shaped flowers start out white in July and mature to rosy-pink and ...

Hydrangea flowers usually are bluer when soil pH is below 5.5. That's because aluminum uptake is enhanced in acid soils, and it's the aluminum that turns hydrangea flowers blue.

Bigleaf hydrangea responds to several light applications of fertilizer during the growing season. A general-purpose fertilizer, such as 8-8-8 or 10-10-10 applied at a rate of 1 pound (2 cups) per ...

While hydrangeas are not well-known for luring in hummingbirds, there's one stunning lace cap variety that will have those ...

This has opened the door to wilder ideas - like fluorescent (glow in the dark) plants, through the transfer of the fluorescent betaxanthin pigment from yellow flowers of the night-blooming four o ...

Acid soils, common in the Pacific Northwest, have a pH of below 7, and acid soils bring out the blue in hydrangea flowers. A soil is considered acid if its pH is below 7, and alkaline if it is ...