Hydrangea macrophylla (Bigleaf Hydrangea): This variety is most commonly affected by soil pH. It includes both Mophead and Lacecap types. The color change is most dramatic in these hydrangeas.

Get better, brighter blues and peak pinks by meeting this shrub's water, sun, and soil preferences.

Hydrangeas offer some of the most stunning color options in the flower garden. The intense pinks and purples of the mophead hydrangeas add a vivid punch of color that’s unlike anything else that ...

Changing hydrangea flower color with coffee grounds is a popular garden hack that could do more harm than good. It’s a popular piece of garden folklore: Coffee grounds will change the color of ...

Do your hydrangeas have you seeing blue or pink? Or maybe something else? As you may know, the color of your bigleaf hydrangea’s blooms is influenced by your soil’s pH. When your soil is alkaline ...

The color of flower exhibited in the greenhouse hydrangea is predetermined from the time of propagation. Most start out predominantly pink or blue, but once the shrub is in the ground there is no ...

Are you up for a chemistry lesson today? I better say that up front because this phenomenon of manipulating the flower color of a hydrangea (and specifically we mean the cultivars of Hydrangea ...

When gardeners ask how they can change the color of their hydrangea flowers from pink to blue, I sometimes jokingly suggest they move to the east coast where the soils are acidic. Nebraska soils tend ...

SEATTLE — One of the most popular shrubs in Northwest gardens is Hydrangea. There are quite a number of varieties to choose from and new incredibly beautiful ones are showing up at nurseries every day ...

Color ranks high in our decision to acquire a plant for the garden. We are told repeatedly that structure is the most important element, because flower color, even the color or pattern on foliage, is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kritsada Panichgul It’s a popular piece of garden folklore: Coffee grounds will change the color of hydrangea blooms, making them ...