Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pink hydrangea growing in a pot Hydrangeas are hugely popular flowering shrubs that can grow happily in pots and provide you ...

Over the years, I've experienced a love-hate relationship with the South's beloved French aka bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla). Like you, I revere the showy snowballs of blue, purple, pink, ...

Hydrangeas are one of the most popular perennial garden shrubs with a variety of foliage and flower shapes. Hydrangeas can be grown in containers; however, for longevity, planting in the ground is ...

Hydrangeas are backyard staple. They are versatile flowering shrubs, which have become a mainstay in many types of garden design. Hydrangeas are fairly low maintenance, however it is important to ...

A reader asked me why her hydrangea tree was not doing so well. I wrote a column about this in August, but this is the fourth question about hydrangeas I have had in the last two weeks. Her hydrangea ...

Hydrangeas have become very popular plants for the home landscape in recent years, primarily due to the release of new varieties with flowers of different sizes and shapes featuring more vivid shades ...

Hydrangeas not blooming may be due to improper pruning time, winter damage, or too much shade. Bigleaf and oakleaf hydrangeas bloom on old wood, so pruning them in winter removes flower buds. Smooth ...

This week I got an email from one of my readers, and she asked me why her hydrangeas did not bear as many flowers as she hoped over the years. Maybe pruning would be the answer and maybe not, which is ...

Avoid these pitfalls for perfectly gorgeous hydrangeas year after year.

Growing up in San Diego I assumed hydrangeas were weeds — the purple-and-blue, nonstop-flowering beauties were everywhere. Fast forward to living in the Central Valley and … it can be more of a ...