means - "Remember me"; Modesty, sincerity, hope.

In other interpretations, hydrangea means - coldness, indifference, changeable heart.

Roda Hydrangea, or Hydrangea (Hydrangea) contains 35 plant species of the hydrant family, or hydrangea (Hydrangeaceae). A number of authors include a bodies in the SaxiFragaceae family (SaxiFragaceae) distributed in East Asia, North and South America.

Hydrangea is a plant with many names and challenging fate.

In the late XVIII century, the French doctor and naturalist Filper Komson brought a flower from Japan ( Japanese Rose) Now known as garden hydrangea hydrangea.

In Japan, it was called Azisaia.

In honor of Nicole-Rhine, the ballet de la brier (on her husband Madame Lepot), which was famous for the fact that he managed to become the first woman-mathematician and astronomer in France, the comer called this flower "Potia", but then another naturalist, A. Justice, Replaced this name to "Hortensia". As a result of these events, the legend of the Lepot hydrangea arose, which became in popular literature. This confusion revealed in 1803 by astronomer Joseph Laland, highly appreciated scientific merit Madame Lepot.

She made a young girl around the world around the world, survived the shipwreck, and returning to his homeland, devoted her life to astronomical studies, opened not one mystery of the starry sky. The Paris Academy of Sciences decided to perpetuate her merit, calling the Plant, which navigators brought from distant West Indies.

Already later, European botany-systematics renamed the plant, giving him the name Hydrangea Macrophylla (large hydrangy) and producing a generic name from the Greek words Hydor - Water and Angeion - Vessel, emphasizing that the plant belongs to the moisture-loving. But the gardeners of the whole world still call him the name of the hydrangea, sometimes adding the epithet "French" in memory of the fact that the Western world learned about this plant thanks to the first French world expedition.

In the countries of the Eastthis flower is known from time immemorial and in the surprise they call modations. First of all, because the hydrangea loves to change its painting. It turns out to be blue or blue, it becomes suddenly pink or lilac. And she has flowers like fashionable, also unreal. Take care carefully to the umbrellas of inflorescences - instead of petals and edge flowers - the circumscribed cups. And in the middle is a tiny ball, this is the bunny of the present, a unspoiced flower.

In Japanmindzia is called back water thanks. In the spring and summer, its leaves evaporate a lot of moisture, and if there is little water in the soil, the flower will immediately be sick and will recover with great difficulty.

Tea from hydrangea is a ritual drink from Buddhists. During the Khan-Matsouri, the holiday dedicated to the birth of the Buddha, the small hall of each temple, which is called Khanamido, is colorfully decorated with flowers. In the middle of the hall installed the pool. The pool stands the statue of the newborn Buddha, and the people who come to the temple, pour on the head of the Buddha sweet tea Amacha, boiled from the leaves of hydrangea.

Temple ministers brew tens of liters of such tea to the holiday and offer its visitors to the Temple, who take tea home and drink him with relatives and friends. Previously, people believed that this sweet tea from hydrangea possesses magical properties.

In total, Russia's botanical gardens are introduced 12 species. All of them grow well in the open ground of the middle strip of Russia. Exception will be hydrangea hydrangea, which is less winter-hardy compared to the rest with the rest and is therefore widely used in the south, but in the middle lane can be used to decorate the garden in potted culture or as an ornamental plant to be used in the interiors almost everywhere.

Most often found: hydrangea Misbulataya (N. Paniculata. Sieb.), hydrangea (N. Arborescens. L.), hydrangea soil "Bretenter" (N. Heteromalla "Bretschneideri" Dipp.). Much less often meet more thermal-loving species: dollandic hydrangea (N. QUERCIFOLIA), hydrangea radiant (N. Radiata), hortensia ash (N. Cinerea), pillya hydrangea (N. Serrata), hortensia Sarzhet (N. Sargentiana), hydrangea roughing (H. Aspera). Vertical landscaping use hortensia Cherchokhkovaya (N. Petiolaris = H. Anomala Subsp. Petiolaris).