Hydrangeas

These have been lovely this year. We have had enough rain to keep these ones on the bank at the back of the house flowering well. I really need to select some flowers to work on in my textile work. This bank is clay so when it is very dry it dries out a lot and then in the winter it becomes a slippery slide. As I am getting older I am less inclined to want to have to work on the bank so over the last few years I have been planting hydrangeas (mostly grown from cuttings on the bank. They are really starting to be the sculptural back drop I was aiming for - and of course it cuts down on the weeding that needs to be done. At some stage I will have to cut off the dead flower heads but they flower for ages so that won’t be till the weather is cooler - hopefully.

There is a range of colours here from bright pink through to move , blue and white with a few of the lacy ones intermingled in there. I can never understand why they are so expensive at the garden centres because they are so easy to propagate - although I guess it take two or three years for them to get to saleable stage