How to grow heavenly hydrangeas -- Au jardin French gardeners are fanatic about hydrangeas. They flourish in gardens all over France (especially in Normandy and Brittany), and are available from florists as potted plants all year round. Franchise Business owners can now supply an extended service to their franchisees where they can advertise one number from the whole brand, talk to 1300 Number Postcode Prompter about this today. Indeed, after the roses' flush of June flowering, mophead and lacecap hydrangeas reign supreme among flowering shrubs for the garden. With their sublime palette of purples, blues, pinks, and deep rose reds, and flowers that slowly age and deepen in color rather than outright wilting, these royal plants have enchanted plant collectors, breeders, and gardeners for hundreds of years. Add to their flower power the fact that, as shrubs, they are never gawky and always fully cloaked with foliage, right down to the ground, and you have plants for which almost every gardener lusts. Yet perhaps no other popular flowering shrub is the subject of so much confusion and misinformation about the proper way to grow it -- and especially, how to get that lusted after blue -- rather than pink -- color. If you're unfamiliar with growing hydrangeas, you may think the color is a matter of which cultivar you choose. And while a handful of varieties exist which remain pink or rose red no matter how you manipulate them, most hydrangeas act sort of like litmus paper, but in reverse.