Hydrangea anyone?

Everybody loves variegated plants for the sparkle they provide. Light stripes, white or yellow, even mottled can brighten up a dark corner on a dark day. And silver anything looks positively gorgeous with soft pink blooms nearby.

But you might think about passing on variegated forms if hydrangeas are what you want. The variegation means that the plant may not have enough green in the leaves to get enough chlorophyll to manufacture the big mopheads you hoped for. Just saying…green leaves are good when it comes to getting giant hydrangea flowers.

Oh, and the blue blossom? That’s a whole lotta sulfur needed to acidify our alkaline soils. It could happen, but think pink, the color you will most likely end up with in Southern California soils. 

More dirt du jour:

Hand watering 2.0
Urban Pharmers should try this
Could aphids get any weirder?

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