It's true and it's so sad. So I'm focusing on the positive. Our hydrangeas are beautiful. This picture is from the blue bush. We have a lot of blooms, in differing shades of blue.
This is a bloom from a hydrangea bush called a Pee Gee (also called Paniculata or Panicle). It produces conical white blooms, and ours take on a tinge of antique pink later in the summer. They've just started to bloom.
Also just starting to bloom is the Ivory Silk Tree Lilac. It's next to our Pee Gee and together they make a beautiful display of white flowers.
Talk about dumb luck. Last October I picked some of the Pee Gee and Tree Lilac blooms after they had somewhat dried on the bushes. I put them in a vase (no water) and ten months later, even with my bad photography, I think you can see they still look nice. Recently I researched how best to dry hydrangeas, and turns out I guessed correctly. The method is to cut them when they have already dried on the bush or tree. (You probably knew that, but I didn't.) So in a couple of months I'll replace this bouquet with some new Pee Gee and Tree Lilac, and I will also add some of our blue hydrangeas. Now, if anyone has any great ideas of how to keep the squirrels off the peach tree next year, I'd love to hear . . . . .
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