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 ...

Various hydrangeas in containers along the side of a house - Grace Cary/Getty Images When most people think of hydrangeas, their minds go straight to the bigleaf varieties (Hydrangea macrophylla), ...

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 ...

Big-leaf hydrangeas may have the spotlight with their giant puffs of flowers blooming in pink, blue, purple or white. Wild hydrangeas, plants native to the U.S., shouldn’t be overlooked. These native ...

Q: I have a small yard and would like to plant a smaller variety of hydrangea. What would you recommend? And have you seen a hydrangea thrive in a pot? Is it too late to plant now? -J. Sullivan, ...

After the hottest, driest summer since the early 1940s, a lot of plants look beat. Happily, there are a few standouts, like the Japanese anemones, which never miss a beat, and the goldenrods, which ...

Hydrangeas have long been a go-to plant for shady Southern gardens. From late April through July, huge flower heads of light pink, pink, rosy red, lavender, light blue, bluish purple, blends of those ...

The world of hydrangeas is getting bigger in number and smaller in size. Early this spring, the president of the Lasalle Horticulture Club told me that in her town, you were hardly considered a legit ...

Here's how to find the perfect place for your hydrangea to thrive. Hydrangeas are a mainstay of the garden, thanks to their easy-care nature and their gorgeous, dramatic blooms that make a major ...

On the west side of the Cascades, hydrangeas grow to the size of small trees, and in a couple of weeks they will be covered with huge blue flowers that will last well into late summer. While gardeners ...

Hydrangea time again: I get as many letters about their welfare in summer as I get panicky ones about pruning in spring. John Mowatt, from Woking, bought (on my recommendation, apparently), a small ...