Hydrangeas 2026

I picked this bunch of hydrangeas to take into my mother n law at the rest home - she is 100. I planted hydrangeas along the top bank to cut down on maintenance because the bank is so slippery and this is my reward.

Hydrangeas arent always so populr these days as, like the name suggests they need quite a bit of water. In NZ we are lucky that it isn’t too big a deal, epecially thius summer as we have el nino weather conditions which means a lot of the weather is coming from the west so lots of water in it. Some of these beauties were started from cuttings and they have grown so beautifully, they are worth the effort. The gallery below shows them growing in situ.