@tx_flower_child for the I know you can change the color of old fashioned hydrangeas with the type of fertilizer used, and don't know if this might have been a hybrid but I have never seen one with such brilliant color.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam