Rhododendrons 2017

[Roma]

Rhododendrons were looking beautiful on Sunday but after tow nights with frost are all mushy now

Two views of dwarf Rhododendrons
Rhododendron 'Phalarope'
Rhododendron hippophaeoides 'Haba Shan'
Rhododendron hippophaeoides (Yu 13845)  not sure of the number but that is the only one in the Plantfinder.  Not sure if it is still in Glendoick catalogue. 

[Roma]

Rhododendron augustinii was going to have the best flowering for years.  The lower flowers were out and the ones at the top of the bush needed another two days to be at their best.  Anemone nemorosa at its base was not consciously planned but looked good.

[Steve Garvie]

Rhododendron kesangiae -one of the few large-leaved rhodies to thrive in my garden (I lack the space and wind-shelter).


Rhododendron megeratum -the Bodnant form. Grows on a sunny raised bed facing south and protected from excess frost by adjacent house walls and large fence. It survived the hard freeze of 2010 here but was partly defoliated despite fleece protection.

[johnw]

Steve

My that is one lovely no-apologies-pink kesangiae.

I got cuttings from a friend in Victoria of that marvelous Bodnant form of megeratum last autumn.  Every one rooted including cuttings of what arrived; I used one third each live green sphagnum, peat and pumice.  All placed in plastic bags under lights 24 hours on at 17c.  All rooted in a few weeks and were growing away in short order, new shoots consistently pinched after 2 leaves. Nice bushy plants now and ready to go out.

Thanks for posting - spectacular photography as usual.

john

[Maggi Young]

 
Scottish Gardens‏- Rhodoendron Festival - loads of lovely gardens taking part, Glendoick etc .... but this particular link is for Glenarn.... http://discoverscottishgardens.org/garden/glenarn-glorious-gardens-of-argyll-and-bute/

Join Glenarn owners Mike and Sue to celebrate rhododendrons on the 29thApril. as part of the #RhodoFest  https://tinyurl.com/n22oknh - follow either of the links given  for  some photos

 From the DSG site :
 " From Catherine Erskine, Chair of Discover Scottish Gardens:

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[David Nicholson]

I love your Rhododendron bed Roma, wish I had the acid soil and space for similar. Instead I'm building a little collection of dwarf growers which are in pots at the moment. They were destined for troughs but I'm not sure I've enough level ground left to stand them on. Here's one of them R. fastigiatum

[johnralphcarpenter]

Rhododendron luteum, Rhododendron 'Ems' (left) and Rhododendron rubidosum (right), Rhododendron spinuliferum, and Rhododendron 'Egret'.

[Garden Prince]

Two seedlings from a (bureavii x yakushimanum) x kesangiae cross. Seeds came from The American Rhododendron Society seedlist 2015.

[johnw]

Two seedlings from a (bureavii x yakushimanum) x kesangiae cross. Seeds came from The American Rhododendron Society seedlist 2015.

I did the same cross in 2004, the plants have been desperately slow. The root systems were very poor and another hybridizer told me to throw them out, well that was certainly not going to happen! Here's a shot from this past autumn, it seems to have snapped out of its stupor.  One kesangiae cross from the same year but with a different & complex seed parent is budded so we shall see if the wait was worth it.

john

[Thorkild Godsk]

There is time in Rhododendron bloom now,
but it is a cold April months.
Picture 1: Rh Pratti
Picture 2: Rh wasonii cox Yllow am form
Picture 3: Rh trailianum
Picture4: Rh wallichii
Picture 5: Rh globigerum
Thorkild DK.

[Steve Garvie]

Rhododendron edgeworthii -This plant is a survivor having lived through a number of bad winters (including the -15C of 2010-2011). It grows in a dilapidated unheated shade tunnel from which it has recently burst out into the sunlight. In the tunnel it is leggy and far from pretty but the branches which have pushed through the shade netting into the sunlight are compact and laden with glorious scented blooms.

[johnw]

Steve - It doesn't get much better than that in the rhodo world......

johnw

[johnw]

A couple of updates from Jens Birck, we saw these in bud a while back.

('Bambi' x proteides) x citriniflorum ssp. horaeum @ Birck's

Charme-La x cinnabarinum 'Nepal' P1050620, this could be an incredible breakthrough.

john

[TC]

I decided to take a risk with some scented varieties and planted them on an east facing wall....against all advice I had read.  The result...so far...has been a success.

This is their second year in situ and they have been flowering well.  Martha Wright has been covered in blooms and is still flowering with more buds yet to open.  The Edgeworthii has only one leaf which has browned and Lady Alice is also growing strongly.  Tinkerbird will be opened shortly and extend the perfume season and the Loderi has also opened although some pruning may have to be done as the bulk of the flowers are some 8 feet up.  My johnstoneanum is bit of a disappointment.  Although growing well and flowering it has no scent. We bought it because of it's strong perfume but seemingly nobody told my plant what it was expected to do !

On our way back from the Perth show, my car took an involuntary turn into Glendoick and despite my protestations that we did not have a square inch of space left in the garden we left with two small Rhoddies !....Levinei and Camelliiflorum.  I will probably grow these in pots along with my fragrantissimum and sestertianum.

My remaining Augustinii is surviving and flowering without any help from me.  The other one was killed by me when trying to straighten it after a gale.  It snapped at ground level.
I was later told that the stems are brittle and should not be bent...wise council but too late !

[ashley]

On our way back from the Perth show, my car took an involuntary turn into Glendoick and despite my protestations that we did not have a square inch of space left in the garden we left with two small Rhoddies !

Oh how true.