Hydrangeas have been around for a long time. The oldest fossils of the plant/flowers have been found in the western U.S. and Canada, and date way back 40 to 65 million years old when the dinosaurs walked the planet.  More 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 from 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 arrived from Japan, however Japan being virtually closed off to the world, they didn’t make it 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 lavender/pink-coloured hydrangeas represent love and sincerity and deep understanding. 

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