Hydrangeas: newbie, please advise me, 1 by EllaTiarella

EllaTiarella wrote:
Did your family grieve over that oak tree? I sure did when an unusual wind gust took out my old leaning oak. A beckoning shady path led under that leaning oak and around behind some firs - a mysterious, magical scene. The stump is still there and shows the tree was about 4 feet across but hollow. When it fell, it crushed the 10 fir trees and all my compost piles. What a mess. I was teary-eyed for days and days. That was roughly ten years ago, and I am finally emotionally "ready" to have the stump ground out, I think. I'll have to lift out all the perennials around it to prepare for the stump grinding, which will be a huge job, but then I'll have room to re-jigger my paths through that area and put in something substantial like a large hydrangea, holly, boxwood, etc.