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Hydrangea
28 October 2009
Flowers are not always at their best in their peak of freshness. There are colours and textures that come only with overripeness, the ebbing of sap and a slow process of drying out. There are hydrangeas that are never so beautiful as when they fade through strange and unpredictable tones of purple and grey and buff, their leaves turning shades of bruised yellow at the same time.
Others move through white, pink and red, eventually deep maroon, while their leaves flush red along their veins. They are mere minor chromatic passages in the long andante of autumn, but they express a pathos that touches the heart.
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