Katy's Garden

It is funny (or not at all) how one becomes defensive when talking about hydrangeas. The truth is that most of the gardening world is still stuck with the picture of the old (and, alas, new) big mopheads and is utterly unable to perceive the vast difference that exhists among the various different species, subspecies and especially, among the breeding styles, european and japanese, of hydrangeas nowadays. This bottomless reservoir of abysmal ignorance creates an hostility towards hydrangeas that may have been understandable twenty years ago, but has no justification nowadays. Of course the vast majority of commercial hydrangeas IS boring, the vast majority of commercial ANYTHING is boring, but there is a whole world of magnificient, sophisticated varieties, even of macrophylla, out there, whose apparently fragile beauty is made to capture the heart of fairy queens. Will the western world ever see that? Never. So I rant, and simmer, and get utterly disgusted.