{"id":13851,"date":"2024-07-15T11:18:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=13851"},"modified":"2024-07-16T12:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T19:38:39","slug":"the-mysteries-of-the-hydrangea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/the-mysteries-of-the-hydrangea\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysteries of the hydrangea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last summer Sam alerted me to &#8220;something blue&#8221; in the border next to the driveway. I investigated and found a little hydrangea bush with a single blossom on it. I&#8217;m not a huge fan of hydrangeas, so I didn&#8217;t think about it much. I didn&#8217;t plant it &#8211; it must have been the previous owners. We moved here in 2016, so it had been alive all that time? I didn&#8217;t give it any care, being busy with other things. Plus our hoses don&#8217;t easily reach that area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year &#8211; wow! Hydrangea bonanza! I guess this plant thrives on neglect? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_8685-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_8685-2-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_8685-2-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The hydrangea bush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently a friend of mine said out of the &#8220;blue&#8221; that it was a good hydrangea year. I guess so! What makes a good hydrangea year? Heat? We are getting some of our share of it now, but here in Maine we complain of heat when it&#8217;s in the 80s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However it happened, I&#8217;m enjoying this hydrangea after all. A lace-cap, I think it&#8217;s called. I might even try to divide it. Any flowering perennial plants the deer don&#8217;t eat can be valuable in the summer, especially when they seem to thrive on neglect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_8684-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_8684-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_8684-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer Sam alerted me to &#8220;something blue&#8221; in the border next to the driveway. I investigated and found a little hydrangea bush with a single blossom on it. I&#8217;m not a huge fan&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13855,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851\/revisions\/13855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}