On 30/3/07 21:58, in article , "Klara"
wrote:


On 29/3/07 21:41, in article
, "Dave Hill"
wrote:
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I seem to remember being told to plant some old iron, such as rusty
nails etc under a hydranga so it would keep its colour
David Hill
Abacus Nurseries

In message , Sacha
writes
That is indeed an old trick that my grandfather used. But the white ones??
I just don't know and I'm not digging them up to find out!

I saw a magical display in a vineyard villa in the Italian Lakes years
ago: they had what must once have been a large shallow round fountain,
now dry. This was completely filled with hydrangeas in pots, as many as
fitted - and their gardener must have done something different to the
soil in each, because although the plants looked very similar, they
ranged in all possible shades from pink though lilac to blue....

And you're going to tell us you can't remember the name of the garden......?
;-) A living rainbow, how lovely!
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
(remove weeds from address)