Such a hardy hydrangea

Portrait of joy. The single blossom that kicked out by our new hydrangea in its first season in our backyard garden has hung on for, well, a month, my dear wife Karen and I admired as we took one of our late-afternoon strolls to admire the results of our years of planting. Next year, she…

Hydrangea gives us a bloom

First year, A-OK. After multiple years visiting hydrangeas around the trails of the Heritage Museums and Gardens during our annual visit to Cape Cod, my dear wife Karen and I decided to purchase our very own at favorite Liverpool nursery Ballantyne Gardens. It’s doing very well at the start of summer in its first year…