Saluting every life with a flower each day! Flowers are soul of the planet, blooming to play music with silent notes. Smile at them as they are sweet hearted!! Only the photographs taken by me are uplinked. I lean heavily to http://www.flowersofindia for flower identification and descriptions. Looking forward to valuable comments and suggestions.
Hydrangea or mophead hydrangea is native to Japan and Korea. it is a rounded shrub with huge, deciduous, opposite, serrated, medium to dark green leaves. Flowers are arranged in huge, ball shaped clusters. The large shiny flower heads are blue or pink, but few varieties are white. Hydrangeas are fascinating in that, the colour of their flowers can change dramatically. Changing a hydrangea from pink to blue entails adding aluminium to the soil and a reverse is possible by removing aluminium from the soil. I took this photo in the evening of 5th September, 2011 from the uncle's home at Mysore, wherein it was thriving well in a cement pot.
