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.
Appreciate your blog post
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