I waited for four years and I was ready to give and dig it up, then this year it flowered for the first time. It had flowered in the past, but the flowers were very small and ugly, now with extra water and improved soil, this is the result. My gardener changed the sprinkler pattern so it hits the hydrangea, this was only a side effect of changing the shape of the lawn.
Annabelle Flowers at last
Very pretty flower.
Something very strange is happening, since I added my other post, my older post was re posted, someone should delete one of them. I can see one has a misspelling, least instead of last. One is correct and one is wrong.