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Phoenix61

(17,000 posts)
1. It's beautiful. One day when my tress are bigger and I have some shade.
Wed Jun 30, 2021, 03:50 PM
Jun 2021

I’m going to plant some of those. I trained a weeping willow to be a tree and planted two lilac bushes under it. One gets morning sun and one gets afternoon sun and they are both happy.

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
2. I wish I could grow the. They are so beautiful. I've tried through the years but they just become a
Wed Jun 30, 2021, 04:00 PM
Jun 2021

Dried out withered mess. It’s just to dry in Northern California. It’s pissesme off when we visit my husbands family in Ireland the literally grow wild. They are my favorite flowering shrub.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
5. Hydrangeas love water so they really are not adapted to California droughts
Thu Jul 1, 2021, 12:39 PM
Jul 2021

I love them and had them around my yard in my old house. When we built this house a hundred feet away we transplanted them, but they died - I think we put them where they got too much afternoon sun. Either that or the deer ate them. It's amazing how much difference a hundred foot change can make!

Bayard

(22,057 posts)
3. I planted an Endless Summer last month
Wed Jun 30, 2021, 04:34 PM
Jun 2021

I should not have planted in full sun in the garden, and afraid it will really shock it if I try to move now. I am watering it every evening, but our heat index is pretty awful right now.

yellowdogintexas

(22,250 posts)
4. That is just gorgeous!!!!!
Wed Jun 30, 2021, 06:14 PM
Jun 2021

I tried one several years ago and it did not make it.
we certainly have the shade but our soil is heavy clay

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