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Rhodos, Feeling the chill...

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Maggi Young:
The following is a series of shots of Rhododendrons showing various degrees of response to a cold night, 1st to 2nd of February 2008, here in Aberdeen. When I went out to take these pix at 9am, it was still minus 7 degrees C.... had been down to minus ten in the night..... got up as far as three degrees later in the day.... pretty chilly day. We haven't been much below minus 10  this year though we have had minus 19 for more than a week on previous occasions.
 Anyhow... 9am, minus 7 c but quite bright, so out I go to take some photos of my poor rhodos, who are mostly feeling very cold indeed... they are the ones who recognise cold and combat it by rolling up their leaves tighly, if they find it exceptionally cold, they fold them down, too, so the leaves look like cigars stuck to the banches. If a rhodo is a tough cookie then it keeps its leaves pretty much as normal, though whether this truly shows guts or just stupidity is questionable ???
 So.. on with the pics....

 cold R.  auriculatum beside R. ponticum, who isn't much bothered by the cold
 chilly boys.... Yakushimanum x recurvoides and R. makinoi
 R. cilpinense  happy enough
 auriculatum close
catawbiense
 decorum close
R.   Dora Amateis not feeling  too bad
 cold elegantulum whole
 cold fuzzy youngster by catawbiense
 cold large leaf  bullate youngster

Maggi Young:
some more.... I apologise if closeups appear out of synch with the whole plant, or if there are duplicates...  :-[

cold rolled rhodos
 cold spotty Moonshine Bright
 cold view.
  R. faberi
 frost on Fuji no Matsui
R.  rex fictolacteum... note how small the  leaves are here in Aberdeen. When he was younger his leaves were a better size but since he put his head above the shelter of the hedge, they have got smaller every year... now they are barely larger than the R. bureavii to his right! To the far right is the unfazed R. Cilpinense .
R. decorum
Frozen  R. decorum wide shot
 frozen Ledum
 frozen  but not bothered!

Maggi Young:
and.......
frozen  but not "bovvered" littley
 R.   thomsoni  McBeath
 
 Very  unhappy  R. pingianum KR150
 R.wardii pur album very cold but hybrid rhodo 'May Day' is okay
 frozen wide shot
 frozen  sparse youngster
 R.  elegantulum whole plant
 
 R. yakushimanum x tsariense, left, R. elegantulum, right

Maggi Young:
I'm still at it...

R. pachysanthum and buds, feeling okay
R. pseudochrysanthum RV select
R. rex fictolacteum and  bureavii unhappy
 rolled bureavii close
 rolled but not folded R. Grumpy leaves
 rolled makinoi fuji no matsui
 snow-  ice-- who cares?
  Reliable red hybrid ' May Day'... only just feeling slighty chilly .
Looking up in frozen R. pingianum

Maggi Young:
Taken the same morning, a few other plants in the light snow
Crocus sieberi atticus. a few early buds showing
Helleborus x eric smithii buds
Hardy hellebore
"downed" snowdrop buds
a view inside a glass house
Tropaeolum tricolorum making escape attempt from glass house

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