Sep 09 2008
True Blue Hydrangeas
Hello! I just wanted to share this photo with you:
I can’t believe how blue these hydrangeas are this year! The flowers on this bush have always been a beautiful dark purple. The soil pH is what determines the color and I’ve done nothing different to bring about this change. Their blue is so intense it’s almost neon. It’s even reflected in the leaves. Isn’t nature something?
Splendor in Blue Hues! What a fabulous photo … I can just imagine the beauty IRL!
~Bev
WOW…they are gorgeous!!! Thanks for sharing…they are beautiful…I just love hydrangeas!!
Sooo pretty. When we started our garden 3 or 4 yrs ago I just HAD to have Hydrangeas. Although I’d rather have pink or blue I believe mine will be white. I’m sure the ph level is too low. After years of waiting for those suckers I haven’t had ONE flower on either of my two plants. We believe the bush behind them is in their way. Next summer this is going to change. I NEED Hydrangeas!
Hydrangeas are my Favourite flower……………….these are just gorgeous Leslie!
Absolutely gorgeous! Mother Nature went whole hog this time! TYFS
Oh wow! Gorgeous. Hydrangeas (especially the blue ones) are one of my favorite flowers.
Oh, wow, Leslie, you did an incredible job with painting these beauties! What did you use? Just kidding, they are gorgeous. I’m going to print this picture and maybe try to capture this intense blue in watercolor. It would be pretty on the SU hydrangea stamp or my Me & Carrie Lou one.
Gorgeous! Mine haven’t done so well this year. I get a pinkish, purplish color most of the time. Last year I had some blue… all this on only 2 bushes!
You know you can ammend the soil yourself to try and help the colors along. Sometimes even things like mulch or pine needle droppings will change the soil ph !
Absolutely gorgeous! thanks for sharing
Mother nature at her finest!
What a stunning picture! TFS!
Those can NOT be real flowers, Leslie !! Absolutely gorgeous!! One day, some day, I’m gonna come see you and that fabulous garden! Thanks so much for the peek today!
WOW~ They are so pretty. How do you do it? Mine are so whimpy. I have had them planted for 4 years now. And they use to be pink and now they are green. Crazy!
How beautiful the flowers are.
Leslie, these flowers are absolutely wonderful! Have you ever used the cardstock from Photographer’s Edge to make your photo cards? Check http://www.photographersedge.com to see all the wonderful verses and selection of colors they have.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful photography!
Wanda
Oh my goodness….how totally gorgeous are these?!?!?! Thank you for sharing these beauties, Leslie!!
These ae gorgeous. I LOVE hydrangeas. Do you ever dry them? They make lovely bouquets all year.
Man, THAT’s blue! What are you feeding those things? whatever it is, your hydrangeas are loving it! Wonderful photo.
These are gorgeous Leslie - I want them in my own front yard - LOL! *STAMPIN HUGS* Alex
They’re beautiful!!!
Leslie, the hydrangeas are breathtaking! Thanks for sharing.
You are great photographer for the flowers. It is so beautiful . Thank you for your sharing with me. Have a lovely day
Leslie, these are the most gorgeous hydrangeas I have ever seen! We put some in about 5 years ago, and they have not done well, although we thought we picked the ideal location, according to Southern Living magazine. Thanks for the picture!
Thank you for sharing such a lovely photograph. Hydrangeas have always been one of my favorites and these are exceptional!
Very beautiful. Mine were very pretty this year also, but didn’t see these colors.
I love seeing your back yard photos, and this one is gorgeous! The blues are so intense and rich, & hydrangeas always remind me of my grandma! Thanks, Leslie!
Stunning! Thanks for sharing! :o)
Beautiful! (And now my desktop pic) TFS!
Beautiful, I didn’t know they could naturally grow that blue!
Oh my gosh! When I first saw this picture, I gasped. Those flowers are absolutely gorgeous. Thank you so much for sharing them with us. What a great picture.
I love the pictures of your beautiful garden. My photos seem to fall short most of the time, but then, I don’t have such gorgeous subjects to photograph either. Thanks for sharing yours. I would also love a short “tutorial” on how you take your pictures… type of camera, settings, any tips or tricks. This one is just gorgeous!
Those are absolutely stunning! Mine never looked anywhere near that pretty. You should send them in to a gardening magazine, Birds and Blooms perhaps. They are contest worthy
WOW!!!!!!! These blooms are breath taking!!!!
and so is your photography Leslie!
Oh my goodness!!!! I love them!!!! Breath taking!
Those have to be the most gorgeous hydrangeas I have ever seen! Thanks for sharing them with us.
Stunning! I love hyrangeas…they are one of my favorite flowers…so much so I used them in my wedding bouquet when I got married last month
Thanks for the beauiful photo…I would love to print that out and hang it on a wall!
Charmaine
What a beautiful picture, I love hydrangeas. Mine died last summer but I am going to get some more. It is coming up to summer here in Australia, and you really have to keep the water up to them we had such harsh water rescrictions that many people lost a lot of their garden. We have just had the wettest winter I can remember for a long time and lots of the dams are getting full.
Thanks for sharing your love of Mother Nature.
Thanks for sharing that. I know what you mean by the Ph. I have mostly seen the pinks. This is stunning.
Those are breathtaking. The photo reminds me of Grandmother’s yard when I was a kid. She always had us bring seaweed back from the beach to put around her hydrangea bed and did those blooms ever glow!! Thanks for the memories.
I didn’t realize they changed color…. what a beautiful suprise!
Wow! Yes.. truly amazing.
Amazing flowers and amazing photo!!! Have the garden magazines called you yet — LOL!!! Truly wonderful!!!
Shizzam!!! What an intense blue! Mine are all tending towards pink now, probably due to our not keeping up the Miracid fertilizing. They’re still pretty, but not nearly as stunning as yours! Thanks for sharing that wonderful photo. Linda
GORGEOUS!!
Oh my gosh, what a GORGEOUS photo!! I adore hydrangeas, especially blue ones - how I would love to have those beauties in my yard!! Do you happen to recall me being excited that my little hydrangea plant was doing well this year? Well that was short lived - turns out hydrangeas really aren’t made for 100+ heat for a zillion days in a row, not to mention our overly acidic (or is it basic, I forget!) soil. (this is why I’m no good at gardening, I can’t even remember which soil it is! but I was talking to my friend, a landscape architect, and he told me they are not meant for our soil. why oh why do they sell things here if you can’t grow them here? it’s just WRONG).
Your hydrangeas are breathtakingly beautiful! I’ve missed having mine bloom. They tried early in the spring but have since withered to nothing in the drought. I just try not to go out into my garden any more. It’s too depressing. But thanks for lifting my spirits with your gorgeous garden!
WOW! Talk about breathtaking!! What a LOVELY photo!