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| Hydrangea quercifolia 'Snowflake' 27 August 2025 |
So many gardeners enjoy their plants when they hit their peak. And only in the fall do some of them enjoy the fall colour of trees and the leaves that fall on the garden.
Because I live alone in a small garden accompanied by two cats, I have lots of time to observe the changes from one day to the next. But sometimes I am blind to them. My grandmother would say,“No hay más ciego que él que no quiere ver”. Or the translation, “There is nobody more blind than he who does not want to see.”
Luckily I did notice my oak leaf hydrangea which grows very well in the state of Georgia in the US. It is a double version called Snowflake.
It is interesting to compare it with one I did back in 2006 (the same plant as we moved it from Kerrisdale to Kitsilano). There is a large framed scanograph of that original on my living room wall. People always notice and tell me it is a lovely photograph. They kind of lose interest when I tell them that it is a scanograph and I am a scanographer.
