The best newHYDRANGEAS:From all the recent options, we've picked the finest for foliage, flowers, and habit

摘要

If you grew up on the East Coast as I did, you know that hydrangeas are an iconic plant. I dare anyone to visit Cape Cod in the summer and not swoonwhen they see those billowy blue blossoms spilling over white picket fences. It was only when I started traveling around North America that I realized tons of gardeners from places outside the East adore hydrangeas as well. In the Pacific Northwest, theycan't get enough of panicle hydrangeas. In northern Michigan, it's the cold-hardiness of smooth hydrangeas that makes gardeners giddy. And even folks in the Deep South do everything they can to provide enough shade for their bigleaf hydrangeas to trulyshine.