We found these beautiful hydrangea flowers when we visited Gore Gardens on 20 December 2018. It was amazing to see varying shades of pink and blue blooms on the bushes.
Ann Mackay from Suffolk UK published a colourful and informative hydrangea post only a couple of hours ago and it prompted me to get mine published! I really enjoyed your post Ann 🙂
Gore Gardens, Gore, Southland, New Zealand
Photo by Nigel
Photo by Liz
Photo by Nigel
Photo by Liz
Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best for 2019
Text by Liz, Photos by Liz and Nigel; Exploring Colour (2019)
Exploring Colour 
What a bountiful hydrangea display, Liz!
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Thank you. They were especially lovely Ellen. All flowers are blooming their best this season. Its been, and still is, wonderful!
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This is nature’s reward for all the rain and cold you had over the winter!
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Beautiful Hydrangeas! My favorite flower! Happy New Year.
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Happy New Year to you too Donna! I’m glad you enjoyed these lovely hydrangea flowers!
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Those colours go together so well. Beautiful!
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I think so too Candice. Not long after I posted this, Ted Jennings (South Carolina) put up a photo of a Roseate Spoonbill. I was impressed with the very pastel soft mix of pink and blue in the photo – much more subtle than in the hydrangeas. If you care to take a look the link is https://tpjphoto.net/2019/01/06/on-the-spoony-tree/
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Beautiful photo!
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They are gorgeous, Liz. Happy new year to you and Nigel!
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Very kind of you Tanja 🙂 We wish you and your OH a very happy New Year also!
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Thank you much, Liz and Nigel.
Best,
Tanja
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Happy new year, Liz! 🙂 Wonder – Wonderful Flowers!!!
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Thanks Pepix! Seems every time we go out for a walk there’s something new in flower! 🙂
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Beautiful flowers! I love that you have all the variations of colour together. Thank you for bringing a bit of summer wonderful-ness to my grey winter day! 🙂 And thanks for the link back to my hydrangea post – very glad you enjoyed it!
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Your top photo of the pink one is so pretty and then I was wowed by the wonderful blue in the 3rd photo in your post!
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Thanks, Liz! The top one is in my garden, so there’s likely to be a lot more photos of that one…. 🙂 The blue one is amazingly blue – I’ve never seen anything quite like that one before.
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The are lovely. I’ve always loved hydrangeas.
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There seems to be a much greater variety of hydrangeas in NZ now than when I was a child. I find them beautiful these days, in all their forms!
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I really adore hydrangeas. Those ones are so beautiful, Liz.
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Thanks Tracy, I’m much more appreciative of them now than I used to be!
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That happens when you get older. 🙂
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These mop head Hydrangeas always remind me of my lovely Gran, who had mounds of them in her garden.
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That must have been lovely. There seemed to me to be hydrangeas everywhere when I was a kid and I totally took them for granted! I appreciate them so much more now!
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Oh so beautiful!!
Happy New Year, Liz!
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Thank you very much Patty Anne. I love it that you’re trying new methods in your art and I’m looking forward to seeing what you share with us in 2019!
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Wow! Needed some color for these gray rainy days!
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Its a gray rainy day here too. A relief actually – some days have been a bit too hot lately!
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