A Slow-Blooming Love
May 18, 2020
2 minutes
By Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
ABIGAIL BOBO
Leo McGee has never been ambivalent about hydrangeas. When he was a boy, his dislike for the beautiful but temperamental blooms veered toward outright hate. “I did yard work for extra money growing up,” he says. “Down in Arkansas, the weather was so hot; ten minutes after I’d water the things, they’d dry up again. I even smelled the blooms, and there never .”
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