HydrangeaThe hydrangea bush bearing this not-quite-ready bloom was planted in my yard in 1965. The original plant was a gift from one of our church friends at the time of my father's funeral, in January, 1965. It was a beautiful pot-plant that we nurtured through the cold months inside the house. We planted it when the ground was warmed, late in the spring of that year. The bush is now about 6 feet wide and about 5 feet tall, and bears at least a hundred blooms each year. When fully matured, the blooms are a beautiful, slightly blue-violet all over.
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Quite a beautiful picture.
ReplyDeletethis is such a beautiful bush! no clue if we have it here, but sure it looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful hydrangea :)
ReplyDeleteFantastic flower!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your support to this idea: TODAY'S FLOWERS!
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Pat, This is a wonderfully perfect picture. I thought you got it from the internet until you told about the bush. I'll have to check out someothers. BTW the lilly with the bug on it is beautiful as well. Well the lilly is, not so much the bug. It is cute as far a bugs go. Grace and blessings to you.
ReplyDeleteLooking pretty darn professional there Pat. Nice shot, and lucky owner of the bush!
ReplyDeletebeautiful picture and a excellent contribution for the flower's Today.
ReplyDeleteBuquet It is a beautiful, beautiful know that is so high and is in his house so many years, has value of heart, it is worth a lot in our lives. Congratulations on that great start in Today's Flowers.
ReplyDeleteDenise
That is beautiful. And how wonderful that it has such sentimental value for you.
ReplyDeleteA splendid photo of the Hydrangea from your beautiful plant!
ReplyDeleteHello Pat
ReplyDeleteI liked everything. The history, the flower.
Simply beautiful!
that is gorgeous!
ReplyDeletearlene,
Port Orchard florist
WoW...this is a very beautifully captured shot...lovely!
ReplyDeleteHydrangea is a popular plant in everyone's garden here.... i love the large blooms and the colors... your photo is lovely!
ReplyDeletethankyou for visiting my blog and for letting me know that 'a little tiff' was among those mentioned on David's authorblog.... i appreciate.
BEAUTIFUL FLOWER.
ReplyDeleteOh so pretty......I can picture it perfectly with your description! I miss the long Texas summers where I could have a large garden and lots of flowers. Where we are now the summers are too short and it's not warm enough. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite flowers!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful hydrangea!
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting! Love how the colours are in the process of evolving! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLovely. That's the same age as me but looking a lot better! lol
ReplyDeleteDeat Pat ...had so many troubles with my P.C yesterday, that I wasn't able to come ...love your flower...how nice to interact once more in such a lovely theme...A big hug...
ReplyDeleteA beautiful flower, and with a history, too!
ReplyDeleteI saw this plant first when I moved to Vienna, here it often grows in the small dark backyard gardens between houses. And last year I saw them in Salzkammergut in the beautiful gardens around old villas along the lakes and in the most unbelievable colours like blue and violett - wow, a great flower, indeed!
Pat: What a beautiful flower for the TF post. This sounds like a great bush.
ReplyDeleteIt´s a beutiful picture of a beutiful flower!
ReplyDeleteLovely flower!!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorites. My Grandmother had a pink one on one side of the from steps and a blue one on the other.
ReplyDeleteThey were large like yours. If fact, they were older than prehistoric dirt. (grin)
Nice post and beautiful photograph.
Thanks for the visit,
Troy and Martha
Such a beautiful capture, Pat!
ReplyDeletePat, that's gorgeous. I love waiting for these guys to blossom.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great close-up of a gorgeous flower! I had no idea hydrangeas could be 43+ years old. Wow and double wow!
ReplyDeleteDid you know that whether a hydrangea is pink or blue or purple depends on how alkaline or acidic the soil is in which it is planted? There are not pink, blue, and purple varieties as with orchids. The hydrangea is the chameleon of the horticultural world.
Splendid job, Pat!
Not quite ripe, but still beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely - both the plant and the memories!
ReplyDeleteReady to bloom or not, your hydrangea is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteLovely.I'm pretty sure is what we call in Argentina "Hortensia"
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely way to memorialize your father. This is beautiful and I bet you think of him every time you see it.
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