Oakleaf Hydrangea - the one for dry spots.
Following on from my previous post about Hydrangeas, here is another very different variety, maybe not as well known. It certainly deserves a mention because it withstands colder conditions than regular Hydrangeas, and also thrives in dry conditions in places where many other plants would not do well. This is the plant for a lazy gardener, like me ! It is called the Oakleaf Hydrangea ( Hydrangea quercifolia ). The regular variety has large panicles of creamy white flowers, and there are varieties with double flowers, and flowers that are pure white too, for the virgins amongst us. In Autumn before the leaves drop off in Winter, they turn a coppery color, which enhances the look of the bush. Hydrangeas are for Temperate and cooler climates, and grow to around 1 metre or so in height. They do well here in Sydney too. A large upvote will be given to the person who i judge makes the best comment, and another large upvote for the Silliest ( silly sausage )comment. Please note that silly comments are not the same as lazy comments. Lazy comments are made by people who write only a few words hoping for an upvote, so don't do that or you will not have a chance to win the best comment or the silly sausage. 
I am wondering what these beautiful flowers have to do with silly comments? You are supposed to be my plant doctor! Now! You have suddenly changed to a game-show host! With prizes and competitions!
How could boring and drape gardeners know anything about competitions and pitching their wits! You are driving decent and honest gardeners into making a fool of themselves! Their plants would not recognise their planters and may suffer from stunted growth!! These plants will hold you responsible for these aberrations!
Congratulations, this is a great comment and my favourite comment award winner.
Wow! Thank you very much! I see you have a Martian sense of humour! I originally came from Saturn! It was quite difficult to adjust my Saturnian sense of humour to be as close as possible to the earthlings’sense of humour. So far, I only succeeded in coming closer to Martians’ culture! I still have some space to travel to get to the earth! I am trying to communicate with all interstellar beings!
Thank you very much, my plant doctor!
Yr Welcome buddy !
I like all flowers and plants with no flowers, sometimes I can not biliary herbs. But the median is among my favorite. There are a few of them on my terrace ... My mates live out in summer and winter, maybe they will not bloom at the beginning of June, more colorful ones towards the middle of summer. But I am not satisfied with the gallbladder, just do not look at the green leaves in the time of the flower.
As for those two people the most important day approached, the excitement increases.Tries to do everything at once.Everything happen the way you imagined, and want to be a bride like a princess.
Without a doubt the most important details, the dress, the hair, make – up and the bridal bouquet.Oakleaf Hydrangea Bridal bouquet for the most ideal flowers.In my country they call it in the middle.The groom, flower I don't think.Bitsede home is what we call a wedding:)
when I married, these flowers never know the difference I won't.Yes, you heard chichewa my idol a.
Silly sausage winner !! Well done. chichewa Your idol ??
oh Thank you so much.I was very happy.I'm glad you like it that separate us.Post your content and your competition is very different. I like it:)
At first sight I thought its papaya plant becoz its leaves resembles wit that plant but I think its a different plant.
Yes it is commonly available and its flowers are also very nice.
Thank you and Have a great day.
Wow! Great and amazing post my dear friend.
Lovely photography 💚💚
Truly, beautiful!! 🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃
Thanks @ctrl-alt-nwo for sharing this post. 🤗
Beautiful flowers are like Steem power - @ctrl-alt-now has plenty of it to share it around with its lucky followers ;)
A beautiful plant for the design landscape, Oakleaf Hydrangea - an elegant, weather resistant plant that attracts everyone's attention both during the flowering period and outside it. It is generally believed that hydrangea is a capricious plant, and complicated care is needed. But the flower growers, who in practice already dealt with this shrub, claim the opposite. Thank you @ctrl-alt-nwo
Yeah im following your previous post..lovely photography i love nature i hope u also crazy fan of nature....
Amazing photography
For your post propagation.
Upvote/Resteem
Oh yeah it's hydrangea with a sheet of oak, we have such a hydrangea in the country is expensive, but real fans of hydrangeas do not spare money and buy. That's what I learned about it. The hydrangea quercifolia, marked by 18th-century botanist William Bartram in his herbarium-collecting study was seen in the 1770s. It was not in a hurry to enter the British and American gardens. Since the hydrangea flowers were considered very tender for the climate. Only in the 20th century the cultivars of the plant were increased in use in garden design in America and Great Britain.
