Woman with purple broadleaf hydrangeas in garden - Srdjanpav/Getty Images Hydrangeas (Hydrangea spp.) are among the most beautiful summer-blooming shrubs. Hydrangea care in summer usually involves ...

It's that season, when millions of floppy-headed hydrangeas are cluttering up gardens. Hydrangeas are indestructible and therefore a landscaper's dream plant, but there are so many really good ones, ...

Hydrangea varieties such as hydrangea macrophylla and hydrangea serrata offer a spectrum of colours, ranging from pink to blue, encompassing every shade of fuchsia, plum and periwinkle in between.

If it is a tall, clinging vine (up to 80 feet), it is climbing hydrangea. If it has multilobed leaves, like an oak tree, and cone-shaped flowers, it is an oakleaf hydrangea. If it has leaves that come ...