To wonder how a plant can be common?

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I have been having some work done to my garden and am looking at which plants to put where. I want a white hydrangea in the front garden and my mum was horrified. Hydrangeas are common, you see. How can a plant be common?

Capitola, they'll probably flower next year, I think it's pretty normal for them not to in their first year, as they flower on old wood iirc.

Well I don't give a hoot - we have four hydrangeas in our garden, all at various stages, and I adore them. One is quite mature and all summer I've been using them as cut flowers in the house. They look lovely. We have a red robin too and hanging baskets the front. We are common as muck

coumarin Don't be surprised if your new pink hydrangea turn as blue as your old one; they are like litmus paper.

I have a white lace cap hydrangea in my garden, which I'm pretty sure is deemed "classy" by those who care about such things. I also have brimming tubs of very jolly pink pelargoniums either side of my front door. They get loads of compliments.

I love my hydrangeas, and I like that you can turn them different colors.

I adore this thread and all the pretty photos. OP, I think your mum might need a hobby.

My mum used to be very sniffy about next door's red hot pokers. This, from a woman whose contribution to our garden was drinking gin and tonic in it.

Hydrangeas change colour depending on your soil chemistry. IIRC the hydrangeas in dm's garden were pink. Instead of binning yucky, manky, rusty, used-up steel wool pads, we would chuck them under the hydrangeas to turn the blooms blue.

Mind you, this was decades ago, and I don't remember it exactly. Steel wool caused the hydrangeas to change colours, but I could not swear which colours.

Lol, a common plant species is just one that is either invasive or grows like a week and is everywhere. Different plants are common to different geographical areas.

Your mum obviously expects you to chose an uber special plant for your garden :)

A common plant is one I can not kill.

Begonias.
Some hydrangeas - not the climbing ones.
Gladioli.
Mop rose bushes.

They just are.

Some of my hydrangeas.
I ve been looking for another one for a semi shaded spot and Wim's Red turns from white to pink to red during the course of the summer. I'm having one And for double shock/common value, I'm getting a big fuck off species rhododendron for some privacy at the end of the garden.

Ahh, hydrangeas. Better known as 'old lady hat flower' in this household.

I love the oak leaf hydrangea too now. Perhaps I need one of those too.

I have 4 hydrangeas in our garden and lots of geraniums. I also have cosmos, phlox, numerous roses, giant daisies, and lavender edging all the beds.

I love my garden and don't care if people think Im common. cos I probably am

My oak leafed hydrangea is floppy stemmed compared with the others and needs a fair bit of support to keep a good shape.

I've also been eyeing a few roses. I've seen one called Raspberry Ripple which is super cool. I also need a nice climbing rose.

Albertine is an amazing climbing rose, CruCru.

I've got it growing all over the place! It looks spectacular and smells beautiful.

My favourite is Gertrude Jeykill.I grow it as a climber up a fence and I have one as a bush in a pot. It fowers all summer and smells amazing.

Here's mine.

Privet is dead common

Oh I like the colour of that rose LetsFace.

In my front garden, I have roses, geraniums, and bedding plants! Very council flower bed!

Personally don't like hydrangeas, apart from a lovely huge border of them at mil's house. Just don't like the look of them, although now tempted to google white ones. I always thought they came in blue and pink.

They are lovely in white and pale pink, River cam.

I got mine from M and S food hall. I usually buy one in the spring keeping it in its pot, then plant outside in the summer. They grow beautifully and make lovely cut flowers.

Hmm I like hydrangeas and budlieas.
But pansies and marigolds and other such twee bedding plants are naff, naff, naff!!!! Unfortunately my mother in law planted a load in my garden while I was out. Sob!

I don't like them nor budlieas or marigolds. I don't think the colour or petals are pretty. Having said that I did see a nice white hydrangea that had more delicate blooms that was nice.

But how did dahlias become common? They are beautiful, spectacular flowers and there are so many varieties. Glad to see they are becoming cool flowers again.