My hydrangeas are coming into bloom, especially the mophead and oakleaf hydrangeas. Pannicle varieties and a couple later blooming mopheads are budding up and will bloom over the next week or two. I love having the variety of colors and styles, and having a succession of blooms adds bold swaths of color I enjoy for months. Soon, I’ll be snipping blooms for bouquets.
This pale blue variety has bright chartreuse leaves. I don’t know many of the specific variety names of my hydrangeas, but this one is All Summer Beauty—a repeat bloomer.
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This mophead has deeper color with beautiful purplish tones and a medium to dark green leaf.
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This Annabelle hydrangea has massive white clusters.
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This next smaller variety of mophead has purple blooms with blue eyelets (florets). It might have been pink when I got it, but my soil tends to be acidic from the pine needles of the surrounding evergreens. As a result, my hydrangeas turn blue unless I amend the soil. It will get bigger, maybe 3ft, but right now it blends in with the hardy geranium surrounding it.
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This oakleaf hydrangea has profuse blooms with a very faint scent, reminiscent of cake batter.
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This newer mophead variety has an intricate overlapping petal structure that highlights the color variations—so beautiful.
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And finally, when I was trimming back a few wayward limbs of the hydrangeas in the spring, I potted up a handful of cuttings. The oakleaf cuttings didn’t take, possibly due to a squirrel digging in the small pots and disturbing the roots. Many of the mophead cuttings, on the other hand, did take, and surprisingly one bloomed. I’ve never seen a small cutting bloom before, so it was a fun surprise. And it’s a beautiful pink, which as I mentioned is uncommon in my garden.
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