How to choose hydrangea seedlings

Hydrangea is a moisture-loving plant. If its leaves are drooping, it's been suffering from thirst. If you choose the right seedling, it will quickly adapt to the new conditions, bloom profusely and for a long time, and live a long life.

Hydrangea flowers range from blue to red, with every shade in between, from the lightest to the darkest and most incredible richness. The only colors not found in hydrangea blooms are yellow and orange.

White flowers, most in this genus, are the result of a lack of pigments; if they are not quite white, they are cream, pale yellow, speckled with different shades of green, this is a slight dilution of the green pigment, chlorophyll.

Their flowers are not unique, but form clusters called round, flat, or conical (paniculate) "inflorescences," depending on the variety. These inflorescences consist of fertile flowers with tiny petals and sepals, and sterile flowers with a row of 3-5 petal-like sepals. When two rows of sepals overlap, we speak of double flowers.

The term "hydrangea" is often used for globular inflorescences, which consist primarily of visible sterile flowers. This term primarily refers to "Hydrangea macrophylla" or macrophylla hybrids.

Species with flat flowers also belong to Hydrangea macrophylla . In these species, most of the fertile flowers are located in the center of the plant, while the sterile flowers are arranged in a corona around the corymb.

The Hydrangea paniculata and Hydrangea quercifolia species bear inflorescences in the form of cones or panicles. These inflorescences can consist of either a majority of sterile flowers, whose cones can reach 20-30 cm in height, with the stems swaying majestically under their weight. Or, with an even distribution of fertile and sterile flowers, the bouquets resemble white butterflies, arranged at their whim on white and gold diamonds, luxuriously shimmering and sparkling.