Hydrangea #1

I think these showy flowers give amazing bursts of colour in the summer garden. When I was at boarding school I visited my friends house and her mother, now mid nineties, had a huge garden which I now have learnt was designed by Paul Sorensen one of our best known garden designers. In it were a flowering cherry ( Mt Fuji) and white hydrangeas, a wisteria and a large black snake quite unworried by the humans.

I hate paying a lot for plants when you can get them for free, this one is a two year old cutting flowering for the first time. Pink ones means the soil is alkaline, blue means it is acid and white means it is a white plant and won't change either way.