A garden boasts a variety of different hydrangeas and other flowering plants. - Darrell Gulin/Getty Images What's not to love about hydrangeas? Their large, cheerful flowers can instantly add color ...

No garden flower can hold a candle to the bloom bonanza of hydrangeas. They deliver year after year with an explosion of color in the garden and can act as the easiest centerpiece of all time when cut ...

* What they are: Panicle hydrangeas are summer-blooming hydrangeas with cone-shaped flower heads and better sun- and heat-tolerance than the more common bigleaf or "mophead" hydrangeas. Dwarf panicle ...

Picture this: It's next summer and you're proudly taking a friend for a stroll around your landscape. "Here's Vienna," you say, "and there's Berlin. That's Venice over there. Oh, and here's Paris." ...

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The second week of September is when autumn color starts to peek through the summer green, and hydrangeas may be the most spectacular flowering shrub in the landscape. In my own garden I have created ...

Choosing landscape plants that can take summer's heat will make your life easier. But what if you want a shrub with colorful blooms? There are flowering shrubs that come back year after year, add ...

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Hydrangeas usually play a starring role in your garden, but figuring out which plants deserve the supporting role to your hydrangea plants can be a bit of a guessing game. Should you match the flower ...

Hydrangeas are like draught horses, they plod on and get the job done no matter what's happening around them. I won't bang on about them being overused because there are a couple of cultivars that are ...