This winter's extreme cold may have hurt some hydrangea types for the summer of 2026, according to Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival founder C.L. Fornari.

Your hard work in the garden will definitely pay off with these long-blooming beauties.

A boxwood alternative that blooms, a willow with silvery foliage, and another slew of new-twist hydrangeas are among the most ...

The hydrangea blooms on the outskirts of the Shakespeare Garden. Photo by Lila Goldin / Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute An Endless Summer, a type of hydrangea macrophylla, on Emerson Street.

Back in the spring, I had a column about pruning spring-blooming plants. Always prune them after they finish blooming. This is because they set their flower and vegetative buds for next year during ...

When I moved to Connecticut in July of 2021, I remember driving through neighborhoods looking for somewhere I might eventually want to live and being struck by the beautifully-landscaped yards that ...

A reader seeks advice on why their hydrangeas are fading in color. Plus, Grumpy’s gripe of the week. "My French hydrangea starts the summer with big, lovely blue flowers. As the season continues ...

The hydrangea family of flowering shrubs is one that has been expanding at an incredible pace over the last 20 years. At our store, we have as many as 30 different types of hydrangeas for sale. We are ...

A few of my hydrangeas were damaged during freezing weather earlier this spring. Many ask when is the best time to cut them back. Hydrangeas don’t really need heavy pruning to produce ample flowers.

The Endless Summer hydrangea is a newer variety that flowers on both old and new wood, so it will bloom “endlessly” all summer even if it is pruned in the spring. Courtesy photo The beginning of April ...

Hydrangeas are one of the most popular flowers in the United States, thanks to their big, bouncy blooms that come in lovely shades of pink, blue, white, purple, and beyond. To get even more out of ...