It's just not a Southern garden without a hydrangea or two. Members of the family Hydrangeaceae, hydrangeas have big attractive blooms that make them the MVPs of the garden. Their calling cards are ...

Hydrangea trees are shrubs trained and trimmed to look like a tree. They bring a vertical element to any space with their large, showy blooms atop tall stems, and can be underplanted with smaller ...

Looking for a versatile, fast-growing, flowering shrub with long-lasting blooms in beautiful colors? Start dreaming about growing hydrangeas—the South's favorite flower—in your garden. Whether you're ...

If there were ever a flower synonymous with long summer days, it would be the hydrangea. These billowing bushes are perfect for lining the front of seaside Cape Cod houses, they make ideal garden ...

Olivia Young is a writer, fact checker, and green living expert passionate about tiny living, climate advocacy, and all things nature. She holds a degree in Journalism from Ohio University. Bigleaf ...

I love old gardening sayings that have passed the test of time. One of my favorites is “prune until it hurts, and then prune some more.” The truism is meant to allay our fear of pruning, as though ...

Those billowy white panicles seen on flowering shrubs this time of the year are not puffs of cotton candy. Instead, they are ...

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 ...

Celeste Scott talks about full-sun Hydrangea paniculata, and Jason Reeves talks tall, slender trees. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, UT Extension Horticulture Specialist ...

These native shrubs don’t need heavy shaping.

A reader asked me why her hydrangea tree was not doing so well. I wrote a column about this in August, but this is the fourth question about hydrangeas I have had in the last two weeks. Her hydrangea ...

Welcome to ID That Tree! In this episode, Purdue Extension Forester Lenny Farlee introduces us to a striking native shrub known as Wild Hydrangea. Found in forest understories and along wooded slopes ...