Hydrangeas continue to be a very popular woody ornamental genus. Widely grown along the New England coastline – and increasingly in more interior locations – they create something special in so many gardens. Mal Condon’s October 26 discussion at 2 pm at Tower Hill Botanic Garden will cover a broad range of best practices for growing hydrangea successfully in your gardens – from the technical perspective to the all-important ‘dirt under the fingernails’ Issues.

Sponsored by the New England Hosta Society. Free with admission to the Garden.

A lifelong gardener, Mal Condon has been collecting, propagating, and growing hydrangeas for more than 40 years. He and his wife Mary Kay operated Hydrangea Farm Nursery on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts for many years. It was a well-known specialty nursery featuring a touring garden containing one of the largest hydrangea collections in the Northeast. In February 2014 they moved to Yarmouth Port on Cape Cod, where they are continuing their passion establishing a significant new garden. Mal is Curator of Hydrangeas at Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, MA, a former President of The Cape Cod Hydrangea Society, and the ‘hydrangea whisperer’ for several major residential landscapes on the Cape.