Flower Gardens
Hydrangea Colors
- Gay_Klok
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In response to Welcome to my Flower Gardens!
posted by Cottage_Garden:Barbara, I had trouble putting in a new discussion in answer to your blob re Hydrangeas
I am trying it here now:
f you want your mop-top Hydrangeas to grow pink or blue in your garden, you may change the substance of the soil by making it alkaline of acid. Make it blue by adding iron or [more expensive] iron schilates {sp?]. For pink I suppose lime may do the trick.
When I was pregnant, many years ago, the federal govt. gave pregnant ladies iron and calcium tablets. I could never take the iron, I had a reaction to them so they were put away in the medicine cabinet. Years later I found them and started to throw the capsule out. Then I thought, "Why not add them to the Hydrangeas growing in my town garden that were basically pink. I broke the pills open and scattered the iron powder around the bushes. Voila! Blue, instaed of a rather murky pink. I do not have to change the soil in the country garden, the soil is acidic though one cutting I shoved into the soil is a very large bush now, with both pink and blue blooms!
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