Shade Gardening: Your woodland shade favorites, 1 by nutsaboutnature

nutsaboutnature wrote:
Thanks pirl - I love your Hydrangea. . . It's BEAUTIFUL!! What variety is it?

This is my very first ever Hydrangea bloom. I planted two very small "Cityline" Hydrangeas last Spring. This one is called 'Venice' and it grows between 1' - 3' tall. Right now it's only about 9" tall. I really like the color.

You can see that some of the leaves have a little yellowing. This is a small bed we created last Spring out of an area of the lawn that that was mostly clay & tends to retain a lot of water. We heavily ammended it with Cotton Burr compost, leaves, etc, but it will be a work-in-progress to get it right.

The other one is called 'Berlin' and I will probably have to move it since it sits where all the water collects and isn't growing as well.

This pic was taken during a time of day when it gets filtered sun.