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Subject: [Leica] IMG: The Old Snowball Bush
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:13:27 -0500
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Thanks, Lluis.? While the blooms are similar, the Hydrangea comes in 
several colors and, I believe, is usually smaller.? This one is a 
Snowball Bush Viburnum, which I have seen only in white or ivory.? It is 
older than you, and could definitely be from the time of your grandmother.

On 4/15/21 5:01 PM, Lluis Ripoll via LUG wrote:
> Nice picture Jim, this plant remember me my grandmother, I know it wth the 
> name ?Hortensia?, the dictionary tell me that his English name is 
> ?Hydrangea?
> Lluis
>
>
>> El 15 abr 2021, a les 21:55, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> va 
>> escriure:
>>
>> This bush has been with me a long time.  I first recall it in the yard of 
>> the old farm house where we lived in the late 1930s.  It followed us to 
>> town a few years later, and, when we built this house in 1967, it came to 
>> Tennessee.  When my gardening crew trimmed the shrubbery 2 weeks ago, it 
>> was cut back to bare branches.  For the last few days, I've watched new 
>> leaves and green blooms appear.  Since it was trying so hard to be 
>> noticed, I decided it deserved a photo today.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210415-P4153860.JPG.html
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
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Jim Nichols
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