Hydrangeas have been around for a long time. The oldest fossils of the plants have been found in the western U.S. and Canada and date back 40 to 65 million years old.  Recently fossils have also been found in Asia, where people first started cultivating the flowers thousands of years ago. Hydrangeas didn’t make it to Europe until 1736, when a man named Peter Collison brought them back from the Pennsylvania colony. 

It was given the name “hydrangea” for the Greek word’s hydro (meaning water) and angeion (meaning pitcher) because the big flower blooms were thought to look like water pitchers. Some say they originated in Japan but being virtually closed off to the world, no Asian varieties made their way to Europe until 1775, when the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg managed to get his hands on five plants. Since then, hydrangeas have taken the world by storm.

In the language of flowers, the blue hydrangea represents forgiveness.

• The long stem is designed to be folded whichever way you need it to go, and back again. It can easily be folded up on itself (and back) to more easily fit into your container, or trimmed entirely with a pair of wire cutters
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