A whole hillside of Hydrangea arborescens - one of our native hydrangeas, with green fruit. Sometimes these will have the large, showy sterile flowers around the edges, although I didn’t see any, and those persist after the fertile flowers are gone. This can look quite striking in the winter:
That looks more hydrangea-y, right? The cultivated varieties are bred to have more of the sterile flowers, and fewer (or none) of the fertile ones. Pretty, but not so useful to the plant.








