To prune or not to prune? That is the question. My all-time favorite flowering bush is the hydrangea. One might think that by virtue of having 27 hydrangea bushes in my own yard I would be an expert as to the how's and why's of pruning them. But that couldn't be further from the truth.

What is your favorite flower?  Mine used to be roses.  But over the years it's changed from roses to hydrangeas.  I think the love affair started with our first house.  Lucky for me it just happened to have a HUGE blue hydrangea bush next to the back deck. When I say HUGE I mean I'd never seen anything like it ever before. And the depth of the blue was absolutely brilliant.