I was always wondering this. My parents had super beautiful and healthy blue hydrangeas in their yard. My sister cut a branch from it and planted it to 3-4 meters ahead that was near a wetter area. And this new plant came out as a pink one. We were all amazed because this branch was coming from the blue one. I don’t know if water increases the ph or not. But it worked that way. Maybe water was not the reason. Thank you very much for this information. It is so useful.
Here in 🇪🇺 Europe, especially in 🇫🇷 France, gardeners would/still "feed" their Hydrangea bushes/scrubs with 'rusty-nail-water', to turn them beautiful deep blue. My elderly Pre-WWII Parents passed this folklore "knowledge" on to me. I've never seen hydrangeas as big or as beautiful as in France 🇫🇷, especially around their old village churches. ✌🏻😊
I see in your pictures pink and blue hydrangeas growing together. Can the soil pH change enough in a short distance to enable plants next to each other be different colours?
I was always wondering this. My parents had super beautiful and healthy blue hydrangeas in their yard. My sister cut a branch from it and planted it to 3-4 meters ahead that was near a wetter area. And this new plant came out as a pink one. We were all amazed because this branch was coming from the blue one. I don’t know if water increases the ph or not. But it worked that way. Maybe water was not the reason. Thank you very much for this information. It is so useful.
Here in 🇪🇺 Europe, especially in 🇫🇷 France, gardeners would/still "feed" their Hydrangea bushes/scrubs with 'rusty-nail-water', to turn them beautiful deep blue. My elderly Pre-WWII Parents passed this folklore "knowledge" on to me. I've never seen hydrangeas as big or as beautiful as in France 🇫🇷, especially around their old village churches. ✌🏻😊
That's interesting, I wonder if putting nails in the soil would have the same effect ?
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I see in your pictures pink and blue hydrangeas growing together. Can the soil pH change enough in a short distance to enable plants next to each other be different colours?
Yes, it is not as common but I have seen shrubs planted close together vary in bloom color.