June Gardening Notes
In my May gardening notes, I shared that I put some compost around my Annabelle hydrangeas in the hopes they would do better this year. I have used Hollytone fertilizer on them in previous years, but that didn’t seem to be enough, and the compost has, so far, seemed to be the ticket to healthier, more prolific Annabelles. Here is how they looked last July. They were yellowing, losing leaves, and looked generally unhappy. And here is how they look this year. Technically, this picture should be in July’s gardening notes, but I didn’t take a picture of these bushes in June, so here we are. They are a little flopped over from recent heavy rainstorms and have, just this week, turned from white to pale green, but you can see how much fuller and healthier they are. They also have greener leaves. Here is the one by the front
