My favourite thing about hydrangeas is the blend of colours on a single flower. So, while fresh flowers have a particular type of loveliness, in some ways hydrangeas improve when Autumn throws a restraining hand on the foliage, adding pink, purple and yellow where there was only green.
The flowers both brighten and fade, losing some of their stiffness and gaining a more soulful air.
Since the effect of Hydrangea flowers comes mainly from their sturdy, colourful bracts, they outlast many other flowers, easing us northerners into the greyer landscapes to come.
Towards the back end of the year, flowers need not be perfect to stop us in our tracks: even sparse, moth-eaten ones get all their due credit. It was a treat to see these blue lacecap hydrangea flowers still going strong in the middle of November.
Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Susan Rushton 
November and still braving it: hydrangeas are amazing! Beautiful colors.
pax,
dora
There are some great looking hardy fuchsia bushes still looking good as ever too.
Good for them being ever so hardy! :>)
Oh, beautiful rinsed out colours.
A hydrangea knows through and through what it’s like to be antique.
Beautifully put! Hydrangeas are one of my favorites, and perhaps it’s because of when they bloom and how long they last.
Some plants are so generous when they flower. They typically have massive heads too.
I very much like how Autumn’s “restraining hand” creates a “more soulful air.” I think that it does, and I am going to apply those words every time I look out the window today. Beautiful images!
Autumn’s hand nearly restrained me from having my daily walk, but I braced myself and went for it. It’ll get colder and wetter and darker yet but I’m still adjusting.
I’ve never really liked hydrangeas as once they are past their best they just go brown and look an ugly mess but I like these, the colours are lovely 🙂
I never like white geraniums to go brown, but I don’t seem to mind too much with hydrangeas.
I can’t seem to find the photo of my favorite hydrangeas; I probably deleted it. At a Missouri courthouse one year I found nearly-browned flowers that still had hints of all the colors you show here. They were gorgeous.
That’s a pity. It seems you have captured it securely in your memory. Hopefully the picture will turn up.
Gorgeous
Thanks, Sheree.
Pleasure Susan
Great colours. I really must try and find a deep red and a purple one.
My sweetheart was surprised to see the deep red ones. They don’t seem to have them where he lives.
Beautiful hydrangeas. I so adore these photos 😀
Thanks, Cee.
I still love them when they’re brown and wizened. Bit like me!
I’m lost for words… except to say, I don’t think so!
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We’ve had a bad year here with hydrangeas, yours are lovely. I think mine died completely about a month ago,
Has it been too dry, perhaps?
How wonderful that your hydrangeas still provide so much color in November – truly beautiful!
They are getting towards the end by now – gradually turning paper bag brown as Tony, one of my blogging pals, described it. I still like them when they are brown though, especially when they go lacy.