Friday, June 21, 2013

pink or blue?


Hydrangeas

Blue or pink?

You be the one to decide, depending on your soil, a science experiment in your yard, litmus paper in the form of blooms. 

acid soil = blue flowers

alkaline soil = pink flowers

According to Southern Living:

"Here are a couple of tricks to turn hydrangea flowers the color you want. To turn blue flowers pink, sprinkle 3 to 4 cups of lime around the base of the plant. Do this again several months later. To turn pink flowers blue, add 4 tablespoons of aluminum sulfate to a gallon of water, and drench around the base. Do this again three weeks later. The color change takes about a year in either case, so be patient."

Maybe a good decoration for a baby shower?



~more campground flowers, no not my yard, duh


spring