Crossword clues for hydrangea
hydrangea
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hydrangea \Hy*dran"ge*a\, peop. n. [NL., fr. Gr. "y`dwr water + ? vessel, capsule: cf. F. hydrang['e]e.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. Hydrangea hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. Any of several shrubs, of the genus ''Hydrangea'', having large clusters of white, pink or blue flowers
WordNet
n. any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea
Wikipedia
Hydrangea (; common names hydrangea or hortensia) is a genus of 70–75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas, and Indonesia) and the Americas. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Japan, and Korea. Most are shrubs 1 to 3 meters tall, but some are small trees, and others lianas reaching up to by climbing up trees. They can be either deciduous or evergreen, though the widely cultivated temperate species are all deciduous.
Having been introduced to the Azores, H. macrophylla is now very common, particularly on Faial, which is known as the "blue island" due to the vast number of hydrangeas present on the island.
Usage examples of "hydrangea".
The front yard was rich green lawn worthy of Dublin, edged with beds of flowers-taller plantings of camellias, azaleas, hydrangeas, agapanthus, backing impatiens, begonia, and a white fringe of alyssum.
At the base of the trees grew hydrangea, agapanthus and red and pink canna.
The forest trees are almost solely the Ailanthus glandulosus and the Zelkowa keaki, often matted together with a white-flowered trailer of the Hydrangea genus.
It was the many pots of hydrangeas and azaleas that gave the Bird Cage its cachet, and this real garden within the heart of the store bloomed in all seasons under her personal supervision.
Emerging from the shrubs and landscaped lilies, Magnolias, Gladiolus and Hydrangeas, as the air had then cooled much and the end of late summer was marked by the first cold front that had brought cleansing rain which had pulled down the chemicals that the bursting refineries were issuing forth.
Jonelle enjoyed her dinner companions, a table around which sat younger, hipper people than one might think the staid Phillips into its seventieth year would draw, and danced with now-fellow reporter George Stephanopoulos when they found themselves the only two wallflowers left staring over the blue hydrangeas and red roses.
I had no imagination for making use of the sycamore balls or pyracantha berries or dried hydrangeas that could be spray-painted to great effectI was decoratively challenged.
They hauled black dirt from the cane fields and mixed it in the wagon with sheep manure and humus from the swamp, then filled the beds with it and planted roses, hibiscus, azalea bushes, windmill palms, hydrangeas and banana trees all around the house.
Harper started this gorgeous purple clematis on a copper trellis and put in a trio of oakleaf hydrangeas.
There were fistfights in the hydrangea, orgasms among the croquet wickets.
Those violently blue hydrangeas, the blood-red of roses, the hot pink of snapdragons.
An old wooden rowboat and crab pots were in a yard scattered with oyster shells, and brown hydrangea lined a fence where there was a curious row of white-painted cubbyholes facing the unpaved street.
I am going to have to describe a very lurid scene now, and I'd like to think you're clear in your mind that I'm only repeating what Edwina told me, and that she was only repeating what she accidentally overheard from behind the hydrangeas.
Our yard was abloom with hibiscus and blue and pink hydrangeas and the neighbors came on horseback to the fais-dodo under our oaks.
Had he or had he not given Head Gardener Thorne adequate instructions as to what to do with those hydrangeas?