Re: Hydranga

LOL, Jenny!  Why don't you, next time you talk to your MIL, ask her if she
knows the botanical name or the cultivar name for the hydrangea as someone
was admiring it and asking you and you didn't know what to say?  That 
might lead to a conversation in which she tells you what it actually is!

But, considering what you thought you had and what you're getting, I agree
that what you've got is likely a lace cap.  Sometimes, mine will put out
flowers that are mostly the fertile flower with an incomplete circle of
non-fertile ones (the showy ones).  Dunno why they do it and they will do
it on the same shrub that simultaneously has more complete flowers.

Here's a photo of a lace cap - one of 46 hydrangeas of all kinds that came
up when I searched flowerweb using the keyword 'hydrangea'.  It's a great
place to look for flower pictures.  If the URL for the search doesn't work
because it's a long string, just go to http://www.flowerbase.com/ and do
the search - found this one on the second page of hits; fifth down on the
right column of thumbnails.

http://www2.flowerweb.nl/flowerbase/detail.cfm?fbasedetail=08479a01&preview=
yes

Do your plant's flowers look anything like this one?  I picked the
skimpiest lacecap - others have more sterile flowers and a fuller look.

I'm delighted you've enjoyed Gardening in Shade...stop by whenever you're
in the neighborhood - welcome mat is always out :-)  I'd move those poor
Astilbes before it's too late - as it was for mine; they won't last under a
maple!! (I learned the hard way)

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Peter & Jennifer Overholt <jpover@execpc.com>
> To: 'perennials@mallorn.com'
> Subject: RE: Hydranga
> Date: Monday, July 27, 1998 9:08 PM
> 
> Marge -
> I don't know what I am talking about! I got this hydrangea from my mother

> in law. and I assumed that it was a "mop-head" as that was all I knew of 
> hydrangeas! My m-i-l asks about it all the time, and I was starting to
feel 
> like I need to lie about the BIG PROFUSE blooms but.... come to think, I
am 
> glad I didn't! I would really feel silly if it is the lace cap variety I 
> will go out on the web and investigate later - time permitting, and
report 
> back!
> 
> On a personal note Marge, I thoroughly enjoyed visiting your shade 
> gardening page and reading the current and past articles! I felt a bit 
> better when I passed my astilbes under the mature maple, and realized
that 
> maybe they just never had a fighting chance! I was starting to think that

> my internet server had gone haywire again and transformed Jeanne's
dreaded 
> Shasta daisy virus!!!
> 
> Jenny
> Z5 SE WI
> 
> 
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