Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Someone holding a purple hydrangea plant. - Lapa Smile/Shutterstock Hydrangeas are a beautiful addition to any home garden, with ...

Tom Brown, a Telegraph columnist for four years, is head gardener at West Dean College in Sussex. At West Dean, he manages a large kitchen garden, a cut flower garden, a fruit collection comprising ...

A: A large, versatile and very fashionable genus of mainly deciduous flowering shrubs, hydrangeas are wonderful for adding long-lasting colour to the garden from summer right through into late autumn.