Take a look!!! It's a GREAT year for hydrangeas!!!!

Briarcliff Manor Garden Club

“The Briar Patch” Susan Zetkov-Lubin

It’s a great year for hydrangeas and June is the month when they are at their absolute peak!             

I discovered hydrangeas when I was a little girl, bicycling on Nantucket Island. The beautiful blue, purple, lavender, pink blooms against the sea-washed, weathered grey houses, would cause me stop pedaling, if only for a few minutes, to pick small hydrangea clusters to tuck into the band of my straw hat.

I have collected hydrangeas ever since, from wonderful mopheads to dainty lacecaps, carting them in my car from Nantucket Island to my garden in Briarcliff Manor. Local nurseries also have a good selection of different varieties of hydrangea and I urge you to visit them.

Yes, it’s a great year from hydrangeas!!  How are yours doing? Check out some photos from my garden! And don’t forget to pick some just for drying. 

~Sue