Over the last two weeks I have seen countless displays of hydrangea blooms. Here is one of ours already fading but lovely still. I wondered why I had been oblivious to the hydrangea bushes which seem to grow in most of the yards. How could I have overlooked such blue beauties. Then I read in our local newspaper:
One blooming nice thing about this summer: It’s a great year for hydrangeas.
Hartford Courant
Those big blue, pink and purple blossoms seem to be everywhere, even places where we didn’t notice them before.
“It’s all about the weather patterns,” said Marissa Agostini, greenhouse manager at Moscarillo’s garden
center and nursery in West Hartford.
“It’s all seasonal, so every year is going to be different, regardless of how much food that you give it,” Agostini said. “This year is what we call a surplus year. Same with a lot of things. If you notice around, the daylilies are gorgeous.”
I like the name “surplus year.” I think we are all owed one after the lean years of Covid. I only wish we didn’t all seem to be squandering it in political upheavals. At least the hydrangeas took advantage by recklessly blooming away
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I used to have a nice blue one at the end of the garden, but it died off during one of our rare hot summers. This year everything (including invasive weeds) is overgrown because of the constant rain, and I have abandoned all attempts at gardening of any kind.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Our neighbour has the blue one. In Germany we saw different coloured hydrangeas.
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Ah, lovely
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