HYDRANGEA A COLORFUL SHRUB FINE FOR GARDEN.(AT HOME)

Byline: LAURENCE SOMBKE Special to the Times Union

Hydrangea is one of the finest garden shrubs you can grow. These old-fashioned plants produce wonderful rounded heads of flowers that change color during the course of the summer and are fabulous dried and brought in over the winter.

I still have a bouquet of dried hydrangea flowers that my wife picked and arranged last fall.

There are several different types of hydrangea, and that creates some confusion for some people who want to grow certain ones and find that they can't.

Hydrangea macrophylla, or lacecap hydrangea, is the beautiful plant that produces pink or blue flowers that can be …