Hydrangea

I cut some hydrangea flowers from the bush in my chaos garden yesterday and brought them up to my office in a milk glass vase. I like the hydrangeas on my desktop - the physical rather than the digital one!

I remember taking home-grown hydrangeas to work almost 30 years ago in the same vase. I’d inherited the vase when we bought the house and it was large enough to hold even the largest flowers. The plant was one that produced blue flowers and grew in the shade of American beech and oak trees that towered over the house. It was one of the few times I took flowers into work; they were spectacular visually…and they lasted longer than most flowers.

The pink hydrangea bush that I cut these flowers from was purchased within a year of our moving to our current house almost 20 years ago. They grew well until a year ago when a late spring freeze destroyed almost all the leaf buds….and then the deer decided the plants were well worth eating. This year they seem to be recovering.

My mother likes to bring cut flowers and plants inside to enjoy. She has something just about anywhere that the eye passes frequently. It’s a good idea. During the summer I have enough flowering plants that all I need to do is walk around the yard with some scissors!