Over the past few years, Pamela Anderson has had more time to contemplate life. That is, until things kicked into high gear again—but more on that later. At the start of the pandemic in 2020, she moved from France, sold her house in Malibu, and headed north to the small town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where she was born and raised. She hunkered down with her two grown sons, Brandon and Dylan. She bought her grandmother’s old motel, renovated it, and set up her parents there. A lifelong cook, she perfected her baking skills. She reclaimed and expanded her grandfather’s garden on the same land where she had run barefoot as a self-described wild child. It’s the site of both her greatest childhood joys and harrowing traumas, which she describes candidly in her 2023 autobiography, Love, Pamela, and Netflix documentary, Pamela, A Love Story. Almost poetically, for Pamela has journaled and written poetry her whole life, she has reclaimed her true self and her youthful creativity on the exact spot where they were born. When I had the chance to sit with her and talk over Zoom recently, our conversation quickly moved beyond her new cookbook, I Love You (due out in October), to all aspects of life—and her ability to find the deepest of meanings in even the tiniest of seeds.
A New Hydrangea Is Coming in 2025—and We Got a First Look
23.07.2024 - 10:57 / thespruce.com
There is no plant in the landscape as stunning as hydrangeas. There, I said it, and I stand by it. They're a truly show-stopping (yet surprisingly low-maintenance) option for so many different environments, from coastal to mountainous.
And thanks to my love of hydrangeas, the following news was some of the most exciting I could receive: there's a new hydrangea variety coming in 2025 that will surely knock your socks off.
Meet FlowerFull, a smooth-leaf hydrangea that boasts two to three times more blooms than other varieties.
Please take a moment to admire its beauty, and read on for everything you need to know about adding this to your landscape.
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Though FlowerFull will be available at a nursery or hardware store near you in spring 2025, it has been in the works for many years from the masterminds at Bailey Nurseries (the growers behind Endless Summer Hydrangeas).
We spoke to Ryan McEnaney, Bailey Nurseries' marketing and communications manager, to share what makes this variety a must-have in any hydrangea lover's landscape.
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FlowerFull solves lots of common hydrangea qualms, like leaf spot disease, drooping, and wilting. Bailey Nurseries crafted this variety to be about as perfect as could be: it produces a ton of beautiful blooms, features strong stems that won't flop over on a windy day, and is disease-resistant thanks to its dark, clean leaves.
The most common challenges home gardeners experience with this hydrangea species are weak stems and disease-ridden leaves, so Bailey set out to craft a plant that would improve those characteristics.
«To introduce a new variety in that crowded marketplace, we knew that it had to be really special,» McEnaney tells The
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Hydrangeas (Hydrangea spp. and cvs., Zones 3–9) are timeless favorites of gardeners everywhere, but these beloved shrubs are also favored by a wide variety of pathogens. Fortunately, there are many preventive measures we can take to keep our plants safe, and knowing the signs and symptoms of common diseases can help us make a prompt and accurate diagnosis when disease does strike. With a little planning, research, and appropriate action when needed, you can keep your hydrangeas healthy and flowering for many years to come. Here are some of the most common hydrangea ailments, their signs and symptoms, and recommended management strategies.
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IT’S HYDRANGEA SEASON, and in the Northeast in particular this summer, it’s really been a crazy hydrangea season, with billows of blue bloom from bigleaf hydrangeas on view everywhere, it seems—which is not always the case in colder hardiness zones. It seemed like a good time to review what makes hydrangeas happy, and what hydrangeas make me and my old friend, Ken Druse, happy.