I love my Annabelle hydrangea row in the backyard, but unfortunately I have shitty clay soil and direct South-facing full sun until my river birch get big enough to provide some relief. I think eventually this will be a nice dappled shade berm next to my dry riverbed, but for now I've got to deal with sunburn on my nice white fluffy Annabelle blossoms.
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| Close up of Annabelle hydrangea flower turning brown in spots in direct sunlight |
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| Flowers bent over during a month of wind and rain and never stood back up all the way - lookin kinda trashy! |
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| Flowers turning brown from burning direct sun and bad soil |
Update: After further consideration, I don't believe anything is necessarily wrong with these Annabelle, but they bloomed early because of their direct sun. Now they are just going about the course of drying out - also earlier than usual - because they bloomed earlier as well. So the direct sun forced them to bloom early and now they are browning in late July and August rather than peaking.
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