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 ...

A garden boasts a variety of different hydrangeas and other flowering plants. - Darrell Gulin/Getty Images What's not to love about hydrangeas? Their large, cheerful flowers can instantly add color ...

Picture this: It's next summer and you're proudly taking a friend for a stroll around your landscape. "Here's Vienna," you say, "and there's Berlin. That's Venice over there. Oh, and here's Paris." ...

The second week of September is when autumn color starts to peek through the summer green, and hydrangeas may be the most spectacular flowering shrub in the landscape. In my own garden I have created ...

* What they are: Lots of compact, new, summer-blooming panicle hydrangeas have hit the market in the past few years. Among the best is Proven Winners’ Fire Light Tidbit variety. Although plants stay a ...

Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight' has become an increasingly popular, larger-size shrub to add to a part-sun garden. With its huge cones of green-tinged white flowers and its lush mid-green foliage ...

That’s because one of the most common mistakes in planting a landscape is failing to realize just how big some plants get. The sizes on plant tags are good guides to growth proportions, but they’re ...

The third week of July is the beginning of hydrangea season. I love hydrangeas so much that I have an entire outdoor garden room devoted to shade-loving hydrangeas. (You can see the blue and white ...

Hydrangeas are one of the most popular perennial garden shrubs with a variety of foliage and flower shapes. Hydrangeas can be grown in containers; however, for longevity, planting in the ground is ...

Q: I see some plant tags say “standard” on species like lilac, rose and hydrangea. What does that mean? A: When a shrub that is normally multi-stemmed and rounded/mounding in its growth habit is ...