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Hydranga with identity crisis!

Gee19

By Gee19


Hydranga with identity crisis!

Two years ago this was a blue hydranga, last year it was pink and this year it is half and half although since I took these photos it seems more blue again :) It's good to have changing scenery I suppose.



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At least it is different lol

9 Jul, 2014

 

How strange... its to do with the soil isnt it?.... maybe all the winter rain changed something in the soil lol...

10 Jul, 2014

amy
Amy
 

I'm beginning to expect anything unusual and impossible from you Gee Lol ...

11 Jul, 2014

 

I didn't do anything, Amy, honestly! I wondered if it was anything to do with the way the sun hits it - maybe bleaching the blue out a bit on one side or, as Holly says, perhaps it is the soil - I do tend to throw washing up water there :)

11 Jul, 2014

amy
Amy
 

LOL ... not with the baby I hope , you get worse ;o))

12 Jul, 2014

 

Never knowingly thrown a baby out, Amy, but I must admit the odd teaspoon or fork has shot across the garden occasionally and had to be retrieved :)

12 Jul, 2014

 

mum had a hydrangea that was blue on one side: she said it was because there were nails in the ground, and that iron always made the blossoms turn blue.

Could that be anything to do with it? though surely it'd be constant, not there one year and not there the next.

or maybe some cross-pollination from blue and-or pink plants?

13 Jul, 2014

 

It has to be all the rain fall that we have had Gee, acid rain and all! Mine was like yours two years ago, all shades of blue and pink but this year it is very very pink! No explanation.

16 Jul, 2014

 

Kasy will help you with a proper fertilizer, which will help Hydrangeas to recover.

28 Jul, 2014



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