To be honest, I had never expected to turn those decorative flowers in a glass vase into any real plant, even when I was trying to propagating them in pots this January. However, after about 6-7 months time, in this winter, I found there was one cutting survived and started to come with two new shoots. The old cutting became very woody and finally died, but it gave new life to a wonderful new plant, a real one, and my very own potted hydrangea, not bought from nursery or given as a gift as a mature plant, but from my own pot through my hands from a thin stem with only a couple of leaves.

Anyhow I couldn’t believe it’s going to flower now. So by the time when it forms all these buds, I forgot all my low standard expectation and became very greedy. Yes, I want it to fully turn to a big flower ball, and I want it to be pretty. But I am so sick worried about it at the moment, as these buds look so green that I couldn’t help thinking: “Oh my god, what if the flowers are green?? I don’t want green flowers, as that would be very boring. Just give me any flower colours, pink, red, purple, blue, even creamy…….” Seriously I just couldn’t accept green

Also the slow developing speed of these flower buds worry me as well. It’s already been almost two weeks, they still look like babies. It looks like they are going to nowhere to a flower ball, and no sign of a fancy colour had ever showed up. Is this normal?? Is this okay? Can somebody say something about it? How much longer would it take to get to “that fully mature stage”?