Here are Nancy’s Hydrangeas in bloom again this year.  I love that they are somewhere between pink and blue.  The pink ones are telling us that the soil is alkaline, and the blue ones say acid soil.  It looks to me like this soil is somewhere in transition between alkaline and acid.  Because when the soil is neutral the flowers are white.

 

Hydrangeas always make me smile and think of the blue ones in Nanny’s backyard.  One story is that Granddaddy hammered rusty nails into the ground near the hydrangeas to make them blue.  And Linda tells the story of her little girl self pretending to be a bride and those made beautiful bouquets.  

 

Happy birthday and lots of love to sister Linda.  I would deliver them in person if I could.  

 

 

HAPPY SUMMER!!!