Shade Gardening: bleeding hydrangea, 1 by Weerobin
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Subject: bleeding hydrangea
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Weerobin wrote: One of the things I like best about some hydrangeas is the evolving color of the blooms as they age. This one develops a reddish margin around each petal as it ages. But I've never noticed this phenomenon before: it looks like the reddish discoloration is a response to minor injury to the petal. In this case, the injury is a nibble from an insect. I thought it was interesting. |