Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Rhododendron and other Ericaceae => Topic started by: Maggi Young on April 25, 2009, 11:40:49 AM
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Here are flowers from every Rhododendron that I have in flower in the garden today, Saturday 25th April 2009..... including the first of the Ledum!
....I think I counted 66 different flowers represented here. 8)
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The largest bloom with the smallest..... a williamsianum hybrid, with flowers +10 cm across. be with a R. omienese truss of 1cm total!
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Just opening his flowers is R. rex fictolacteum, so nowhere near the full size of bloom, seen here with a R. anthopogon truss, each of the wee flowers c 1cm
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WOW,
So much variation... I like the R. omeiense especially. Someone (who visits this forum too ;) ;) ) pointed out today that I have something for small plants and flowers, so that's probably the reason.
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Verrrrrry impressive Maggi ! :o :o
I guess this is the best time of the year for you in the Garden ! :D
Alas - I'm a little disapointed - I would have expected the 66 names in your post... ::) ;D ;D
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Verrrrrry impressive Maggi ! :o :o
I guess this is the best time of the year for you in the Garden ! :D
Alas - I'm a little disapointed - I would have expected the 66 names in your post... ::) ;D ;D
Oh, Luc, most days I am glad just to remember my own name :-[
Later in the garden I found another three with flowers which I missed .....and I thought I had been so thorough in my flower collecting ::)
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Oh dear, I felt guilty.....so I have made an effort..... WHAT an effort!! About 56 names here....
Curlew
Wren
Crane
Pintail
Ptarmigan
Egret
Merganser
Ginny Gee
microleucum
nitidulum
omiense
schweliense
glaucophyllum ( forms)
thomsonii Mcbeath
pachysanthum
yak x tsariense
Yak vars
faberi
taliense x lacteum
impeditum
russatum
intermedium
hippophaioides
rex fictolacteum
Yellowhammer
dendrocharis
cephalanthum crebreflorum
keiskei Yaku Fairy
keiskei cordifolia
hanceanum nanum
fastigiatum
racemosum
saluenense chameunum
saluenense
Blue Tit
Silberwolke
Phalarope
Snipe
anthopogon
primuloides
recurvoides
recurvoides RV select
selense jucundum
Bow Bells
Osmar
charitopes
tatsienense
Rose Elf
calostrotum Gigha
lapponicum hybrid
Ciliatum
Cowslip
davidsonianum
Dora Amateis
cephalanthum
oh, and pseudchrysanthum
...and a couple of williamsianum hybrids
.....Chink and Chikor....... Wee Bee.......
that makes 61, I think... the others will be assorted impeditum types and little blue/lilac hybrids ! :D
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Maggi - I was only pulling your leg.. :o :o
Great effort again - thanks very much anyway ! ;D
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In bloom today in the south:
Blaney's Blue
Schneeflocken
augustinii Chasmanthum
rex Berkley x rex Quartz (how did I miss that rotten slug posing as a blotch???)
ambiguum RSF 90/058 (2)
Goldstrike
johnw - possibility of snow in the Cape Breton Highlands tonight.
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Not quite in the garden but Rhododendron christinae x jasminflorum in flower.
johnw
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Is it the shape or the smell that relates to its name, John, it's very petite and pretty?
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Is it the shape or the smell that relates to its name, John, it's very petite and pretty?
Robin - It must be the shape as the scent is a bit like carnation. The tubes are close to 7.5cm long (3").
johnw
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The tubes are close to 7.5cm long (3").
Wow! I LOVE it! What a colour! :o I wish Fred would hurry up with the scent button!! :-[ ::)
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One of the Vireyas. As largely tropical plants, they have the interesting habit of flowering when conditions are right - warmth, moisture - rather than by season. They can be made to flower all year round. A friend had a number in pots in a sunny porch and watered through the year to have flowers through the year.
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Our chapter had a tour of this garden near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia on the weekend. Lots of lepidote species to drool over. As it is on the headlands it gets the full brunt of Atlantic gales. I spied this peony with great foliage, no tag - I will have to torment the gardener.
johnw
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Lots of lepidote species to drool over
On Googling leant the meaning of a new word, thanks John, I've ben doing it for years but didn't know what I was doing - if you see what I mean :D
Gorgeous views and wild and wonderful setting for a garden - you mention an intriguing peony but was there a special Rhododendron that caught your eye?
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Robin - The R. vaseyi 'White Find' which figures in many of the shots is one of my favourites. Also I love the Pogonanthums of which the following is but one there. Apologies for the poor pictures and I'm afraid I haven't identified this one yet and it's not going to be easy. The foliage smells of strawberries when rubbed and can never pass without a test.
johnw
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What a little beauty, John, and a scent of strawberries, scrumptious :)
Thanks for the CU photos you posted
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Zenobia pulverulenta in flower at the moment. I had expected it to suffer with the hard winter but it is better than it has ever been.
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Tony,
How timely that you should post a photograph of Zenobia pulverulenta as I purchased a shrub last week, now planted in the garden and laden with flower. It was certainly hard to resist when in flower. Nice glaucous foliage also.
Glad to hear it came through the winter well for you as I had some slight worries about its hardiness.
Paddy
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I will have to torment the gardener
;D ;D
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Tony / Paddy
Zenobia grows here on the coast of Nova Scotia. In very cold winters it can drop its leaves but the stems & flowers buds are not damaged. We sent a particularly fine powder blue leafed form to Glendoick which they are selling now. It is worth checking out.
johnw
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Tony / Paddy
Zenobia grows here on the coast of Nova Scotia. In very cold winters it can drop its leaves but the stems & flowers buds are not damaged. We sent a particularly fine powder blue leafed form to Glendoick which they are selling now. It is worth checking out.
johnw
Indeed that is what I will do!! thanks!! 8)
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Spotted a few flowers on Rhododendron microleucum today. It is spring flowering but usually has a few autumn flowers though not this early.
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My Rhododendron camtschaticum failed to flower in the spring, but this is the third flower since the start of August! :o I found a nice article by John Weagle on this species. http://www.rhododendron.no/Artikler/2003-1-jw.htm
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Anthony - How strange - I have never seen an out-of-season flower on camtschaticum. I am still waiting for a white one to flower, got it from the Stones 6-7 years ago.
R. 'Schneeflocken' and fastigiatum are in flower here along with a couple of vireyas.
johnw - it's going to be hot here today - +30c on the coast and a whopping 34c inland.
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My seedlings from the Ardfearn 'Red Form' of camtschaticum, all turned out to be white! The first batch of (very tiny) seedlings from them, appear to be true with leaves which are purely green, no slight flushing of reddish colour as has my single small pink flowered form. All yellow autumn colour too whereas the pink form has orangey autumn colour.
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My seedlings from the Ardfearn 'Red Form' of camtschaticum, all turned out to be white!
Imagine the luck. ;D
johnw