If you're looking for a vibrant pop of color to add to your small garden, Summer Crush bigleaf hydrangea (hydrangea macrophylla 'bailmacfive') is a winner. Mopheads bloom in either neon purple or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. hydrangea varieties lanarth white flowering in summer border Deciding which hydrangea varieties are best for your garden can be ...

Did you hear about the gardener whose hydrangeas kept getting nibbled down by rabbits? He renamed them low-drangeas instead of hydrangeas, and now he’s less irritated when rabbits chomp them down.

The huge, pink mophead blooms of bigleaf hydrangea are one of the joys of summer for Chicago gardeners. What a disappointment when those blooms fail to fluff! “Bigleaf hydrangeas just aren’t entirely ...

Most hydrangeas should be fertilized in early spring to provide nutrients to produce summer blooms. Learn how and when to fertilize hydrangeas correctly.

As summer approaches, it’s time to finish pruning trees and shrubs that flowered in spring. “If you wait too long after they bloom, you’ll diminish next year’s flower display,” said Sharon Yiesla, ...

Hydrangeas are a mainstay of summer with their blue blossoms providing pools of soothing coolness in the hot weather. They exude summer by the sea like no other plant, and we always look forward to ...

DEAR BRIAN: You don’t say what species of hydrangea you have, and that’s important because that would determine when it forms buds. Mopheads and lacecaps (both Hydrangea Macrophylla) and oakleafs ...

Remember back in high school when students would whine to the teacher, "Why do we have to memorize this? We're never going to use it in real life." I've got to admit I've rarely used the quadratic ...

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Due to the high pH soil in the Kansas City area, the bigleaf hydrangea usually blooms pink. To get the blue shade, lower the pH with sulfur. Courtesy Johnson County Research and Extension A commonly ...