Hydrangea...
Oct. 10th, 2009 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A few weeks ago they planted flowering bushes outside the windows of my apartment. It's a shady area, hard to keep plants in. I was pleased to see them. When Beulah visited, she told me what they were.
This morning,
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"No," I said. "I think Beulah told me they were hibiscus."
So when she visited today, I asked her if they were hibiscus. "No," she said. "They're hydrangea."
I spent the rest of the day muttering "hydrangea, hydrangea" to myself, and managed to identify them in some garden we passed. We looked at other gardens, too, and I was identifying flowers to myself in two categories: hydrangea, and not hydrangea.
Just so I can remember, hydrangea looks like this:

Wisteria looks like this:

And hibiscus looks like this:

Right, then. Will I be able to remember which is which tomorrow?