Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ Propagate where the violet-blue haze can

where the violet-blue haze can close the gardening year alongside goldenrod

and rewards the patient gardener with a clean

and well-behaved

where a limequat stands in for lime with a sweeter

a shrub of swamp edges

Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ Propagate where the violet-blue haze can'Annabelle' is a wild American shrub with a hometown. Around 1910 two sisters, Harriet and Amy Kirkpatrick, spotted an unusually full flowered smooth hydrangea in the woods of Union County, Illinois, dug the plant, and grew it in their garden in the town of Anna. For half a century the shrub passed hand to hand around southern Illinois as a nameless local treasure, until the University of Illinois plantsman Dr. Joseph C. McDaniel traced the trail back