What plant is this?
Correct answer: Hydrangea
sharonski
If given iron rich fertilizer, the flowers will be blue. a snowball bush is a different plant.
nimblemoon
Lots of old growth bushes in my garden that my neighbors love to "steal". They're gorgeous dried, as well!
JoyceyGirl45773
I have a pinky winky hydrangea. The blooms are large cone shape with vanilla color & strawberry color...beautiful.
Player #9442102
GrandmaTanya, my grandma had these beautiful flowers all along her driveway. she also knew how to change the color of them. something to do with acidity of soil.
Bulldogsmomma
My favorite flowering shrub. Sadly every time I try to grow one I fail. So beautiful
stillyp
Adore blue ones, stunning
Nora
lisamc6966, I have a large plant in my yard and did not know that they were toxic to animals. I have several dogs and cats. I guess I am lucky that they have never "tasted" or noticed them.
MALICE
toxic to dogs, cats and horses
Player #10628065
Mama loved to grow flowers. Hydrangeas were in her top favorites. I grew up with beautiful and varied flowers all around our home. She considered roses too difficult to grow in our climate. We also had Liles, pansies, petunias, and many kinds of perinnials.🌝
GrandmaTanya
lisamc6966, Wow, thanks for that info because I have a dog and 3 cats and it would be horrible if they got into it.
tia
In the UK some gardeners deliberately mix in soil fertiliser in such a way to produce a variegated blue/pink effect on same bush. Very striking but how they actually achieve this I don't know!
Cat Mom
nuzzles, I bet one will pop up that isn't so "simple" for you
nuzzles
have worked in three flower shops so questions about flowers are simple for me
Julie
I knew this because my daughter had them in her wedding.
EgrVoyager
This Flower is simbol of my city Shkodra. Olso we sing a very beautiful song called :"Eja Eja Lulebore"! ❤️
Vic
sharonski, the color of the flowers depends on the soil it is planted in,, may have, white, blue, pinkish or mixed colors like blue and white most common.
Player #35479872
Player #9442102, grandma Tanya used acidity to turn them pink or blue
Bonnie
Bulldogsmomma, I’ve had terrific luck with mine which is facing West & they don’t like getting too dry. I have another on a more shaded area & it’s doing okay but nothing like the other one. Takes them awhile to get established. Acid lovers too..I fertilize.
TJ SISTA
Pretty flowers.
Quiz
Hydrangea takes 1 year to grow 2 feets
Donna
Player #9442102, you can drive a piece of iron into the base of the plant to change the color
Player #50531971
sharonski, snow ball bush is a different hydrangea. all white flowers
Lupe
one of my favorite blooming flower bushes
Angela Golden
sharonski, thank you
zonadm
Bulldogsmomma, try not cutting them
back after they flower. cut them back after the frost has gone. that's how I had success
Player #32567393
Player Elf Counsel,
Cozzy 25,
My mum was born in Wales too, & brought up in London.
Eva
hydrangeas are beautiful and in many colours💐
Kaght
In South Africa we call it a Christmas rose. One of my favorites
Player #13023389
I love hydrangeas. one of my favorite flowers! Debby
Mayastone12
My Nan has got some and they aren’t doing terrible. The hydrangeas turned her garden into “the garden of the angels”
Player #24423307cara
Bulldogsmomma, Same here, It is my favorite shrub. But I cant seem to keep on alive. This it ear my son ran it over with the lawn mower.
Player #28154340
sharonski, that's interesting, the pH of the soil also changes colour. In Somerset they are different in colour from Cornwall, two regions in SW England.
HystericalRailing11
lively flwers
Birdiemom
SHOOT! Hit the wrong button. My poor hydrangea got seriously trampled when the deck was rebuilt, but it's a survivor. I'm told some old nails or other scrap iron around the trunk will eventually turn the blooms blue.
Player Elf Counsel
nimblemoon, My mother was born in Wales and always called them Angels.
maribeltrujillo
beautiful plant