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Re: [SG] Hydrangeas

Vicky,

I'll second that they should do fine there.  Sounds to me like you may have
H. arborescens 'Annabelle' if the flowers are huge white balls that start
pale green, turn bright white and fade to pale green again before turning
tan.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Alan & Vicky Cahanes <acahanes@FRONTIERNET.NET>
> Date: Sunday, July 26, 1998 4:08 PM
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if it would be okay to plant Hydrangeas on the
> South side of my garage.   We live right in the middle of the woods so
> there are quite
> a few trees that still shade that side of the garage.  It doesn't even
> get 4 full
> hours of direct sun. I know Hydrangeas I have planted in other areas of
> the yard which gets way more shade do just fine.  I live in WI  zone
> 4a.  I need 3 shrubs to plant on
> the south side of the garage and I just don't know what to put there
> that would do good
> with some direct sunlight some of the time and shaded the rest of the
> time. I have tryed shrubs that need full sun and they just don't grow
> good.  I don't know the name
> of the Hydrangeas I have all I know is they are not the Peegee
> Hydrangea.  These that I have bloom white and everyone around here grows
> them.  I know they grow
> pretty tall and it's like the branches grow straight up out of the
> ground.  In the
> winter you see all these branches standing up with the dead faded flower
> heads on the end of them.
>
> Thanks,
> Vicky Cahanes
> New Richmond,  WI
> zone 4a
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