Why do frogs love hydrangea flowers?

I'm curious if anyone else ever sees frogs on their hydrangeas? Is it just me? We've now had at least 4 years of frogs being spotted in our hydrangea flowers in August, around my husband and my wedding anniversary.

Frog in 2018

2021

2022

Today, August 4th, 2024

Now, there's a bit of a story with us and frogs and hydrangeas. My husband's favorite color is green, and mine is purple. He's loved toy frogs since he was little, and the first flower he gave me was a purple hydrangea (there's a fun story about that....). Our wedding flowers were, of course, purple hydrangeas. And during our wedding, my husband spotted and caught a frog as we went out to get pictures.

Wedding frog

Wedding hydrangeas

On every 5th anniversary, we've bought and planted a new hydrangea plant. I'm pretty sure a frog is always found on the 5th year anniversary hydrangea, the first we bought.

Are we the only ones being graced with hydrangea frogs, or is this a normal occurrence?

What a lovely story!
Beautiful hydrangas and sweet little frogs

Now I want to grow some!
Is it true that the color is from the soil PH or is it the variety?
Can they stand a lot of sun?

We have a similar type frog that loves our figs.

They do change color with the PH!

We always buy purple hydrangeas (because purple is my favorite color), and by the time we get to our next 5th anniversary, the hydrangeas have turned blue. Our soils are acidic, so they naturally turn the hydrangeas blue. Alkaline soils turn them pink. It seems to take 4-5 years to make the transition, at least in my soil with my amount of rain.

They do like the sun! They will tolerate shade, though, but they won't be happy about it (the hydrangea that we got when we got married is in almost full shade, and it's much smaller than the other hydrangeas, and hasn't even started blooming yet. Last year it had even more shade, and didn't bloom at all.) Granted, I'm on a north-facing slope, so my sunniest areas might not be nearly as sunny as yours. But, I always see them planted next to houses in fully sun, and they do great there (my grandma has a big one next to her porch. I think some of her flowers made it into decorations for our wedding...).

I did a quick search online, and there are posts and pictures of other people with tiny frogs on their hydrangeas, so it's probably not the magic of our relationship making these frogs happen each year. But, no one seems to talk about why the frogs like hydrangeas. They don't seem particularly damp, but maybe they collect dew well? Maybe there's insects that visit the flowers? I just don't know, but I do love how cute they are!

What a beautiful memory and thanks for sharing that with us.

I don't have hydrangeas though I do love them.

I rarely, if ever see frogs.  I usually see toads.