Hydrangeas...

My neighbour Diana has an orchid house

and she grows a wide variety of orchids year round.

A recently retired university professor,

 she has embraced orchid growing with an academic and scientific perspective.

Gauges, thermostats, heaters, fans, fertilizers

potting mediums, shade cloth, and on it goes.

She possesses a firm grasp on the Latin nomenclature

 of all things orchid.

The rest of her postage stamp garden is comprised of a few woody shrubs

and 

some climbing clematis

and 

her prolific and robust hydrangea bush

She lopped off numerous blooms as they were large and heavy

 bending the branches to the ground

 I just happened to be about

and gratefully accepted this bounty of blooms.

We are very fortunate to know our neighbours

we socialize on occasion

and keep watch when someone is away.

I have passed quite a few zucchinis over the fence between us this summer

it's so comfortable

sharing natures' bounty

with each other.