From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

It's hydrangea season and in the northeastern particular this summer it's really been a

crazy hydrangea season.

With billows of blue bloom from big leaf hydrangeas

on view everywhere it seems, which is not always the case in colder, hardiness zones.

It seemed like a good time to review what makes hydrangeas happy and what hydrangeas make

me and my old friend Kendru's happy, and he's here to talk about just that, so more in a moment,

but first these messages. Underwriting support for a Way to Garden provided by Colorblends' wholesale flower bulbs,

a third-generation bulb company offering top-sized flower bulbs directly to landscape professionals

and ambitious residential gardeners at wholesale prices.

On the web, Colorblends.com And by High Moeng Seeds, Wolcott Vermont, offering 30 new seed varieties for 2024, professional

quality vegetable, flower, and herbal seeds that are 100% organic and non-GMO project verified,

on the web, HighMoengSeeds.com

And by Whiteflower Farm, offering a wide range of carefully selected and expertly grown garden plants.

On the web, WhiteflowerFarm.com.

Hydrangea-Leving Ken Druse, who gardens in New Jersey, is the author of 20 Garden Books Ranging in Topic from Shade Gardening and Plant Propagation to Fragrance in the garden and more. He's my co-host of the virtual garden club series

of online classes that we offer in fall, winter,

and early spring semesters.

And I'm always glad for any excuse to talk plants with him

any time.

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