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I have many many favourite plants and flowers. When you are a gardener you grow to be fond of many different varieties of special pants and flowers. The Indoor Hydrangea is a particular favourite of mine and I love putting them outdoors. Sometimes there are some varieties of indoor hydrangea that are not hardy and unfortunately you cannot put them out in the garden. However, some other varieties will flourish outdoors and the only way you can really tell is by putting them out and giving it a go. Some of them they grow them specifically as pot plant hydrangea but most of them should be all right outdoors.

Some people ask me how I get my Indoor Hydrangea so blue and how do I keep them blue? Keeping them blue is another matter altogether and it is largely down to the soil conditions. You need to have a suitable variety of hydrangea, they have to be ones that generally have the word “blue” in their title. Making them go blue you have to grow them in an acid soil. In our area there are some soils which are acid and others which are limy. If you soil is limy then the only way you can get it to be successfully blue is to grow them in a pot using an acid type compost. You also have to water the plants regularly through the seasons with powdered allumn. The soil will give the powdered allumns the right condition for the allumn to work and make the hydrangea blue.

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