I’m not in the mood to fight with Blooger tonight to get it to post more than one pic, so I’m sharing this weird mosaic/hockneyed photo collage I made on Flickr. I’ve always wanted a lace-cap hydrangea and fell in love when I saw this one; a macrophylla/serrata cross. The larger outer flowers have serrated edges which is what attracted me to it – they start out a pretty lime-green and mature to a soft cream color. It should be gorgeous as it gets larger.
I’m using it to replace the Winterthur Viburnum that I planted last fall that died. I’ve given up on trying to grow them – the one surviving is struggling; it has hardly put out any leaves this year, but I’m trying to baby it to keep it going. Hopefully I’ll be more successful with this shrub – it’s planted in moist shade which it should like. We’ll see.
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Nice montage. Some people have talent. and then there are the rest of us.
Thanx!
What happy, pretty flowers.
I have a few Pee Gee hydrangeas that do best when I don’t fool with them. Who knew?
Geoff actually pulled one out while weeding by mistake and we plunked it back in and it’s huge now…maybe I will go out and get some photos-it’s blooming now.
Anyway, nice photo montage. 🙂
I love lacecaps! They are the kind of hydrangea that actually turned me on to the hydrangeas in the first place. Lovely photos.
Tara: The snowball viburnums really don’t do anything for me – though I do like the look of the dried flowers. Lacecaps are beautiful!