Chuck dug up part of it and we planted it in our back yard and it's been a happy camper - except for last year when it was so incredibly dry. Didn't have nearly as many blooms this year as in the past so I just took a photo of one of the blooms. It does better with water - and I'm not good about watering things.
I'm sure this plant is at least as old as I am - and possibly older. The color has always been this gorgeous blue - but I understand you can change the color of hydrangeas by changing the ph of the soil - way over my head!
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iris, it's beautiful! great color. Having never lived in one place very long, i love the stories about plants handed down in the family :)
Beautiful flower -- beautiful color -- and love that you know the history of the plant.
We have a hydranga bush, too. They have such huge, lovely flowers. You're so lucky that your soil is "right" to get that blue color. I have to feed ours yearly with aluminum sulfide to make the soil more acidic -- if I don't do this, the flowers are white. As it is now, the flowers are a lilac color, rather than a deep purple or blue.
I love blue hydrangeas - our house in Minnesota was surrounded by them. I've tried to get them to grow here, but they hate the clay soil I guess.
Yours is gorgeous!
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