Garden

[ciao_bella]

In the spring of 2022, I bought a hydrangea plant from Costco.  They had them in a black plastic bucket.  Brought it home and it sat in its container,  unplanted on my front porch that spring/summer.  I watered it and it looked nice.  

Fast forward, my son was supposed to plant it for me, but somehow, after the summer months,  it got moved to a far corner of the porch and was accidentally covered over with a small tarp that was left out all winter.  The following spring, it was discovered and it looked kind of dead, but I watered it and by the end of the summer, it still looked not so great, all brown, dried and woody looking.  My son planted it in late fall 2023 at my request or should I say insistance but, honestly, I didn't have much hope for it, especially having to go through another very cold winter.    I was wrong!

Look at it this spring!  Getting big, healthy and bright blue in color!  
 

[bmorechick]

@ciao_bella  Just beautiful!  While I'm on vacay we are trimming bushes, etc.  I just trimmed a huge rhododendron and cut the dead stalks off my 6 ft hydrangea.  It's easier to identify the dead stalks when it's in bloom and it's gorgeous, just like yours!  I just love them.

[Kachina624]

@ciao_bella.  It's a miracle!  Looking great, now fertilize and pamper it.

[Desert Lily]

Beautiful!

[on the bay]

Isn't that a welcome lovely sight @ciao_bella.

They like you, they really like you!

That was just the color of my mother's beautiful hydrangea.

She also dried them and then made flower arrangements. She always had hydrangeas in the house but never cut the live ones.

I don't remember her ever cutting it back.

She did have someone cut a butterfly bush back once and we were afraid it wouldn't grow back but it did! 

[ciao_bella]

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@on the bay wrote:

Isn't that a welcome lovely sight @ciao_bella.

They like you, they really like you!

That was just the color of my mother's beautiful hydrangea.

She also dried them and then made flower arrangements. She always had hydrangeas in the house but never cut the live ones.

I don't remember her ever cutting it back.

She did have someone cut a butterfly bush back once and we were afraid it wouldn't grow back but it did! 

@on the bay   I don't know about liking me!  lol...  I come from the land of the brown thumb.  My sister seemed to get the green thumb from my mother.  Me, I got the cooking gene from mom.  

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[Spacrazy]

@ciao_bella: Congratulations!  That is a great story and a beautiful hydrangea! We have a couple of "miracle" plants, too, and they all fascinate me. Enjoy!

[meallen616]

@ciao_bella,

Beautiful, love the color!

[Carmie]

Blue Hydrangeas are one of my favorite flowers.  We had them in our yard when I was a kid.  We called them snowball plants.

Your plant is a survivor and must be really hardy.  Some of them grow to be 5-6 ft tall.

Enjoy your plant for many years.  It was meant to be.  

[on the bay]

@Carmiem

I love that name for them-snowball plant!  And that is what they do look like.

Or big blue snowcones!