I swear I'm not cranky, but I am just teensy bit irritated. Why? Because I was trying to remember the name of a new-this-year hydrangea that caused quite stir at my open garden a few weeks ago. All I ...

Hydrangeas have become mainstays of late summer and fall gardens. In one nursery catalogue alone, I counted 38 different types of these flowering shrubs. That's a far cry from 1962 when "Annabelle" ...