It's just not a Southern garden without a hydrangea or two. Members of the family Hydrangeaceae, hydrangeas have big attractive blooms that make them the MVPs of the garden. Their calling cards are ...

A: A large, versatile and very fashionable genus of mainly deciduous flowering shrubs, hydrangeas are wonderful for adding long-lasting colour to the garden from summer right through into late autumn.

Daniel Hinkley grew up in Michigan, a place with serious Zone 4 winters and a repetitive palette of two white-flowered varieties of hydrangeas. In many front yards, you could see Hydrangea paniculata ...

Hydrangeas are known for their lacy flowers and beautiful pastel blue, pink and white shades. The plant usually flowers in mid-summer but has long-lasting flowers which will last well into late summer ...

I feel as if I’ve spent the past few weeks coveting other people’s hydrangeas. I’ve covertly pulled up outside old farmhouse gardens to ogle “mopheads” covered with great flouncy blooms. And I’ve ...