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0922 Hydrangea in shades of green
Hydrangeas are weird and wonderful flowers. At their blowzy best they sprawl over garden paths, ranging at the back of neat borders. The party drunk of the garden, they scream for attention as they knock wallflowers aside and crowd out cute marigolds. They change colour at whim from blue to pink, depending on what they’re fed, blushing at the very thought of an alkaline soil.
But here we have perhaps my favourite kind of hydrangea – the muted, understated green does not aggravate the senses. It does not assault our eyes with its carmines and cobalts. It does not chide our soil acidity with its blues and mauves. Instead it allows us space to consider the texture of the leaves and the pillowed shapes between the vascular tissues. It gives us leave to imagine the sweet silkiness of the petals.
It gives us time to inhale the simplicity of shades of green.
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