Hydrangea macrophylla 'Eclipse' & Hosta 'First Frost' - 27 April 2025

 

In spring, especially on weekends, Rosemary would invariably suggest to me, “Alex, let’s go to Lougheed (Lougheed GardenWorks) and see what we can find.”

Because my Rosemary was a snob and had this special talent for discovering perennials that would become popular two years hence It was fun shopping with her.

I miss these joint trips to nurseries lots. A couple of weeks ago I decided to go to Lougheed. I saw a fabulous plant but I could not buy it. This is a new “old man” talent I have just discovered. I had not brought my wallet. Since my wallet has my driver’s licence that can be costly was I to be stopped by a policeman.

What I found at another Gardenworks on Easter Sunday

The plant I had spotted was such a Rosemary plant that I returned the next day to buy it.

What was the plant? It is called Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Eclipse’.

In our Kerrisdale garden we had 27 different and many species hydrangeas. We had only two mopheads as Rosemary  thought they were “ordinary”.

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Eclipse’ is a mophead but Rosemary would have spotted  it anyway and we would have bought it. Why? This hydrangea has an unusual leaf colour. I will do, later in the season, what Rosemary would have done. She would have removed the blooms.

Methinks that Rosemary taught me well.