Gorgeous Japanese Hydrangeas = Summertime!

 

Remember those big white snowball-y bushes that bloomed next to Grandma’s porch all summer long? Believe it or not, those everyday flowers were where they started hybridizing to get these fancypants. Some temples in Japan have whole hillsides covered with so many varieties of hydrangea, you can’t count them. Here are a few:

 

 

Jonelle Patrick is the author of the Only In Tokyo mystery series, published by Penguin/Intermix.