It's just not a Southern garden without a hydrangea or two. Members of the family Hydrangeaceae, hydrangeas have big attractive blooms that make them the MVPs of the garden. Their calling cards are ...

A: A large, versatile and very fashionable genus of mainly deciduous flowering shrubs, hydrangeas are wonderful for adding long-lasting colour to the garden from summer right through into late autumn.

Hydrangeas are known for their lacy flowers and beautiful pastel blue, pink and white shades. The plant usually flowers in mid-summer but has long-lasting flowers which will last well into late summer ...

Some plants, quite unfairly, come laden with a full set of baggage. Pampas grass is one, due largely to its mass use in suburban front gardens during the Sixties. Standing alone on a square of lawn ...

I feel as if I’ve spent the past few weeks coveting other people’s hydrangeas. I’ve covertly pulled up outside old farmhouse gardens to ogle “mopheads” covered with great flouncy blooms. And I’ve ...

Most Hydrangeas don’t typically require pruning, but there are some situations where it may be appropriate. If the plant has gotten too big for its growing area or needs a bit of a haircut, then you ...

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