Specific Families and Genera > Rhododendron and other Ericaceae
Rhodos, Feeling the chill...
johnw:
Yeegads, I had no idea such cold would stay for so long in Scotland. And yet you are growing what we would call some very tender species.
We have not been below -15/-16c this year here in Halifax but had 2 x 2 day stretches where the thermometer stuck at -14c. And that with no snow cover.
johnw - -5c at 12.45pm and 10cm of freshly fallen snow overnight.
Maggi Young:
--- Quote ---though we have had minus 19 for more than a week on previous occasions.
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That time we never went above minus 12 the whole week and it was minus 19 every night.... thankfully we don't get often :-X
The very large leaved rhodos don't much care for my garden in the east, though this is not to say that I have a friend less than a mile away with a sheltered garden who has some very good specimens of larger leaved chaps. My R. Rex fictolacteum started out with respectable enough leaves, at least 45 cms long when he was young but, as I say, now he has grown above the protection of the privet hedge, his leaves are now down to only about 20 cms... poor soul, I hope he forgives me.
"Littlies".... i.e. all the dwarf, small leaved rhodos like life in the east... they take full sun... or what passes for it in these parts... just a delight in any garden.
I suppose we do grow a few that we consider to be marginally hardy.... ciliatum, edgeworthii ( & a cross or two) sulfureum, megeratum.. are some that come to mind.
Trouble is, I find that my memory for names is fading faster than my waistline so I can stand by a plant I've known for ever and have a complete blank about what it is called. :-[ :P
art600:
--- Quote from: Maggi Young on February 23, 2008, 04:58:55 PM ---
--- Quote ---though we have had minus 19 for more than a week on previous occasions.
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Trouble is, I find that my memory for names is fading faster than my waistline so I can stand by a plant I've known for ever and have a complete blank about what it is called. :-[ :P
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Maggi
The cold can do that. Hope you had a hot cup of chocolate waiting for you
David Nicholson:
the words 'brass' 'monkey' 'spherical' and 'objects' spring to mind. I just couldn't cope with those kinds of temperatures these days, I sieze up once it gets to positive single figures!
Lvandelft:
--- Quote ---Maggi
The cold can do that.
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Only the cold ??? 8)
Maggi, makes me curious how for instance the nr. 1 an nr. 3 of the 2nd batch look now.
In these pictures they look not very good.
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