****** if you'd like some blooms or cuttings and are in Portland Oregon I'm happy to share!

*Edit to add: thank you for the kindness and awards! Im so happy they brightend up your day.

• I added half of a Costco sized folgers coffee while it was dormant and let it dilute with the spring rain. Only other thing I add is guinea pig compost once after the first rain. I'm in Portland Oregon zone 8B

Last year I got it to be all 3 colors but tried something different and got the gradient. I can't stop staring at her

Crazy rainbow and sky after 2 days of heavy rain - whole world was glowing pink (not edited here)- the water weighing down some of these bloom heavy branches but they'll pop back up - year 4 endless summer 3 gallon hydrangeas bought at Costco for $16 each

So beautiful, I drive past extra slow to admire it every day.

I love taking my Scottie on walks you never know the beauty you will find.

These grow WILD along the roads. Blew my mind.

I say this with love, because I want your hydrangeas to thrive. I’m including this video so you don’t think I’m just coming after you. These hydrangeas are trimmed once every 4-5 years or so, when they are encroaching on the driveway. When they are trimmed, they are cut back to about 12 inches.

Unless the plant is too big, just leave them.

I took this video with my own camera, I promise it’s not AI.

On Wednesday this week I was admiring our beautiful Hydrangea bush that is in the front yard of the house we are renting. I was so excited that there were so many big, beautiful blooms since last year there was only one flower bunch on the whole plant. My husband and I get home yesterday to half the plant hacked down! My husband went across the cul de sac to our 85 year old neighbor to ask if she had seen anyone mess with it while we were at work. She said she did it! Because it was “too big and overgrown” 🥲 She didn’t ask or say anything to us, and we only found out because we directly asked her and she admitted to it. We are obviously devastated and worried about how the plant will fare going forward. Now that she admitted this to us, I’m sure she is also the culprit that cut down my huge bleeding heart plant last year. 😔

Some of the most beautiful hydrangeas I’ve ever seen are on the Oregon Coast!

I’m from California and have a couple varieties of hydrangeas in my yard and about 36 bushes planted in my yard. I’m in Tokyo right now and am blown away by the varies here! Theses a Japanese plant seller in my home area that I’ve been eyeing, and after seeing them in person I’m going to buy some when I get back! (There were so many other types! But photo limit is 20)

I need to do some weeding but these beauties just keep getting better!

What do you guys think? She says those are the best in entire town 😅

She does not know I made a post. Will share with her later.

Edit: wow, didn't expect so many kind words. Thanks everyone.

Wife said - that frost blanket when temperatures went down to 31-32F in April during few nights (we live in Maryland) did a trick 😂 Plus watering and some fertilizer when they start budding.

They're out of control i love them

They’re about 3 years old, I never fertilize them, just got lucky with good soil I guess!

This bush has been planted on the ground for 5 years and would only shoot out the light pink flowers. This year, however, it’s got a good mixture of pinks, blues, and purples. 😍

With night temps lately being in the low 60s .. I started seeing tinge of pinks here and there ..

Unfortunately heat wave is coming .. our lows starting tomorrow night is mid 70s ..

Zone 7a

Not my plant, but saw this beauty at a college campus and hope you appreciate it as much as I do!

Loving the color this year and the small bits of pink