You must have had this piece ready to go because I just read the other one yesterday... You may be a dilettante hobby farmer with an encyclopedic memory for plants and a comprehensive knowledge of best-environmental practices, but you are no dilettante writer. All your stuff is filled with learnings and beautiful sentences. I did not know hydrangeas were native... They are a hugely popular, maybe the most popular, flower in Japan.
Thank you for your kind words. Yesterday this piece wasn't ready, and I felt like it would never be ready, but I got up early today and was able to finish it. My hydrangea is the only species native to the US that I've seen for sale at garden centers. The 2 types most commonly seen are native to China and Japan.
Interesting about the hydrangea. Does the North American hydrangea look like the Asian one? They are everywhere in Tokyo. Very popular in public gardens. (I suppose I could look this up.) We have three pink hydrangeas in our small backyard which I’m guessing are the same as the Japanese ones. Lombard Street, the famous crooked street, in San Francisco is decorated with big hydrangeas.
The leaves of most of the hydrangeas look similar but the flowers differ greatly. Within each species there are dozens of cultivars, each with flowers of different colors and shapes. Your hydrangeas are probably macrophylla, native to Japan, usually having very large and colorful flowers.
You must have had this piece ready to go because I just read the other one yesterday... You may be a dilettante hobby farmer with an encyclopedic memory for plants and a comprehensive knowledge of best-environmental practices, but you are no dilettante writer. All your stuff is filled with learnings and beautiful sentences. I did not know hydrangeas were native... They are a hugely popular, maybe the most popular, flower in Japan.
Thank you for your kind words. Yesterday this piece wasn't ready, and I felt like it would never be ready, but I got up early today and was able to finish it. My hydrangea is the only species native to the US that I've seen for sale at garden centers. The 2 types most commonly seen are native to China and Japan.
Interesting about the hydrangea. Does the North American hydrangea look like the Asian one? They are everywhere in Tokyo. Very popular in public gardens. (I suppose I could look this up.) We have three pink hydrangeas in our small backyard which I’m guessing are the same as the Japanese ones. Lombard Street, the famous crooked street, in San Francisco is decorated with big hydrangeas.
The leaves of most of the hydrangeas look similar but the flowers differ greatly. Within each species there are dozens of cultivars, each with flowers of different colors and shapes. Your hydrangeas are probably macrophylla, native to Japan, usually having very large and colorful flowers.