Something cheerier today – one of nature’s many blessings. I’ve quite a collection of pictures of hydrangeas in antique, autumnal colours, but have selected this for its clear, uplifting colour and the freshness of the raindrops.
While I’m calling it lavender-blue, there’s a good hint of pink. It’s wonderful how the colours of hydrangeas change. Could this one be heading towards the bold red of the flowers glimpsed in the background?
Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Susan Rushton 
Wonderful picture with the raindrops.
Raindrops are the making or breaking of petals.
You have such a gifted eye! And mind for description! 😊🌸🌿
You’re very sweet to say so.
These pinks and blues meld so well.
Each respecting the other…
This color of hydrangeas my favorite! Beautiful shot.
It’s lovely, isn’t it? I always incline towards the blues in summer, but the autumn mixes are even better.
It is interesting how hydrangea change colors so much – and I could never keep mine blue even after amending the soil
Nice photo
I’m always unsure how soil amendment works in the long term. There’s so much about soil and the life in it that we barely fathom.
you are right – so much about soil!
Lovely capture
Thank you
Oh what a gorgeous color on your hydrangea photo 😀
Their colours are fascinating at this time of year. Even the greens seem to have rainbows in them.
Wow oh wow! What color. Would love to see a picture of it if the color changes.
I’m not sure I could find this exact flower again, or even the plant, to my sorrow. I’d make a poor hunter-gatherer if hydrangeas were food. But I’ve been watching another one (on the way to the pie shop) that changes colour during the year and have several pictures of it I could dig out.
The best time of year for hydrangeas.
You’re in the right place for them too.
What a magical colour!
I have two hydrangeas. One is in a pot, grown from a cutting from the plant in the ground. The potted one has pink flowers because of lime in the soil; the parent plant has blue ones. I don’t know of another plant that responds to soil ph this way.
I have read that some hellebores change flower colour if they are transplanted, but have never seen it happen. That may not be purely acidity though.
This is a guess-my-color flower — definitely a way that plants have fun with us! A beautiful portrait, and a tantalizing peek at that rosy kibitzer behind it.
Guess-my-colour hydrangeas are the best.
A forever love- I need to return to the Azores.
They’re very atmospheric. They make me think of the Isle of Man and Portmeirion.
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