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Specific Families and Genera => Rhododendron and other Ericaceae => Topic started by: ian mcenery on February 13, 2011, 02:44:14 PM
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Here is my first for the year I suppose I can expect a frost now :-\
R moupinense pink form
leucaspis and its hybrid Bric a Brac are almost out
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Crikey Ian, that IS early! I think a frost is inevitable... buds on all here are keeping tihght... thank goodness.
Will move this to the Rhodo area for you..... ;)
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My first Rhododendrons are coming into flower. Rhododendron leucaspis lives in the greenhouse over winter and goes outside in the summer. It is earlier than usual this year.
Rhododendron 'Praecox' got frosted last year but is looking good this year.
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My first Rhododendrons are coming into flower. Rhododendron leucaspis lives in the greenhouse over winter and goes outside in the summer. It is earlier than usual this year.
Rhododendron 'Praecox' got frosted last year but is looking good this year.
Roma my leucaspis is outside but is only just showing white tips in the bud so I hope it will miss the worst :-\. But I am worried about my calophytum which is opening now with the frosts forecast :-\
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Two in flower in the greenhouse:
R. christianae x jasminiflorum
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R. Dartmoor Rose x mucronulatum v. taguetii (Cheju), first flowering.
johnw
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Two in flower in the greenhouse:
R. christianae x jasminiflorum
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R. Dartmoor Rose x mucronulatum v. taguetii (Cheju), first flowering.
johnw
John, is Dartmoor Rose one of Barry Starling's please?
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John, is Dartmoor Rose one of Barry Starling's please?
Indeed it is David. He gave me cuttings when I visited him in 1996 - just down the road from you there in paradise. It was registered incorrectly in the RHS double volume set but later corrected in aa supplement if I remember correctly. It is glaucophyllum var. album 'Len Beer' x charitopes ssp. tsangpoense.
Here it is:
I also crossed it with carolinianum and they more closely resemble Dartmoor Rose.
It's a prolific seed-setter and takes crosses with ease.
johnw
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Thanks John. Barry and I are both members of the South Devon AGS Group and I've never been to see his garden. I must have a word with him.
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Some signs of Spring at last. Despite two severe Winters. the Rhods. at Culzean seem to have survived unscathed. In fact, it is one of the better flowering years. Some pictures attached. As there are so many hybrids here, un-named, I have not attempted to guess names.
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Pictures to make this old woman very happy, Tom!
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One of the first rhododendrons in my area.
Rhododendron dauricum sempervirens
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Our first visit to Benmore this year. Left Ayr in sunshine and arrived at Benmore in freezing mist and a temp. of 1c. Quite a few of the larger Rhods. in flower and no obvious damage after two severe Winters. However, the ground was saturated from rain and thawing snow. Every year the paths get steeper, the hills get higher and the distances greater !. Signs of Spring were a Woodpecker drumming and Red Squirrels bouncing through the trees. Some pictures taken during a 3 hour walk round as below.
We then went on to the village of Blairmore to a gallery/tea room. By this time the weather was beautiful - actually warm without any wind
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Managed to make a bit of a mess of the last posting by including things twice and posting before I had finished. I could not name the pictures because it changed them from jpegs to some other format that will not be accepted by this site. Now, as I write this, I cannot recall the pictures I have already posted
The large Rhod. with Cindy in it is a Hookeri, about 70 years old and the flower should be beneath it. For the last two years this plant has hardly produced any flowers. This year it has made up for this. The other Rhods. I took the names of are Oreodoxa, Planetum and Barbatum.
The views were taken next to the little holiday house at Blairmore Pier. This used to be the ticket office for the Clyde paddle steamers which operated a regular service about 4 times a day. I can remember as a very young child, fishing for haddocks at this spot.The view with the upturned boat is of the Holy Loch looking North. The snow capped hill to the right is above Benmore Gardens. Anyway, nothing to do with Rhods. but rather picturesque
659/660---Planetum and flower
005/658-- Oreodoxa and flower
007/666 --Barbatum
013/669---Hookeri
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Wonderful pictures from Benmore and Culzean.
Not much moving with the rhododendrons in the garden yet but a small one I keep in a pot is now in flower
Rhododendron cephalanthum crebiflorum
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You have showed lots of goodies folks!
My first rhodo is this one, maybe a moupinense hybrid, from seed several years ago. It is often the first here.
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I've been encouraged to post these pics here in case any of you Rhodophiles are able to put a name to my plant. It came to us as a "twig" in a 10cm pot over ten years ago and cost us 50p from a local market. Now, it is some 4' high (122cm) occupies a space around 3' 6" square.
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David, I think we may have commented on your excellent "cheapo" before.... I think it is likely the old hybrid 'Blue Diamond' but there are a few of this type, Blue Tit, Blue Sapphire, Blue Diamond are the oldest set and the most likely candidates. I'll vote for Blue Diamond and see what the others say!
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David, I think we may have commented on your excellent "cheapo" before.... I think it is likely the old hybrid 'Blue Diamond' but there are a few of this type, Blue Tit, Blue Sapphire, Blue Diamond are the oldest set and the most likely candidates. I'll vote for Blue Diamond and see what the others say!
Sorry Maggi, the old memory ain't what it was ;D
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A plant magnifique, David!
Well, not blue of any kind and not very early either but this sutchuense (from seed) is soon ready to make a show ;D
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David, it may not have been yours.... it may be my memory at fault... wouldn't be the first time!
Trond, always exciting when a seed raised plant makes its first flowers, isn't it?
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David, I think we may have commented on your excellent "cheapo" before.... I think it is likely the old hybrid 'Blue Diamond' but there are a few of this type, Blue Tit, Blue Sapphire, Blue Diamond are the oldest set and the most likely candidates. I'll vote for Blue Diamond and see what the others say!
Hmmm. Difficult except to say but an augustinii hybrid with either impeditum or russatum. These are horrors to identify especially as the colour is always off when photographed. Not Sapphire but maybe Blue Tit or Blue Diamond, I lean to the former. To complicate matters there are some saints down that way - not, of course, you David - like St. Tudy etc from Magor. Not St. Merryn unless mine was mis-labelled.
Nice sutchuenense there Hoy. My it came on quickly. It will be a few weeks away here as still a tad chilly though the snow has been gone for a few weeks.
johnw
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It wasn't you, David, it was Graham C!
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=10.msg155236#msg155236
I'm sticking with 'Diamond', by the way! :D
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Ah Yes Maggi!!
That one again, that we didn't come to a conclusion on. Here it is today!
Along with 'Razorbill'
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Graham,
I think you have the old German cultivar 'Azurwolke' in your garden. You have a fine example of this cultivar.
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Trond, always exciting when a seed raised plant makes its first flowers, isn't it?
Maggi, it isn't the first flowers of the plant just the first flowers this year! if I remember rightly it is the 3rd flowering season ;D but i am still waiting for the flowers to open fully, the spring is very slow this year.
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Graham,
I think you have the old German cultivar 'Azurwolke' in your garden. You have a fine example of this cultivar.
Here in Aberdeen 'Azurwolke' is much later to flower
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Graham - A smashing Razorbill you have there. I wish it did as well here, I think it is on the edge here but always charms.
johnw
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Trond, always exciting when a seed raised plant makes its first flowers, isn't it?
Maggi, it isn't the first flowers of the plant just the first flowers this year! if I remember rightly it is the 3rd flowering season ;D but i am still waiting for the flowers to open fully, the spring is very slow this year.
Ah, I misunderstood you. Your plant is lovely.
The first are exciting though, that's for sure.... I'm still waiting for the first flowers on my R. auriculatum...... it's been a long time coming and there is no sign that this summer will bring them... that's at least 26years of a wait so far..... ::)!
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I'm still waiting for the first flowers on my R. auriculatum...... it's been a long time coming and there is no sign that this summer will bring them... that's at least 26years of a wait so far..... ::)!
Good grief Maggi, you are patient. R. auriculatum took 10-12 years here from seed and those are planted due east. All are monstrously big now. The one in full sun took about 10 years once planted out but languished in a pot for many years before that, and I might mention was labelled calophytum!
True calophytum is still not budded after about 21+ years, another brute of a thing. R. pronum on the other hand has not flowered after the age of two dogs, a friend's set buds very late one autumn but they failed to open.
Any buds on that proteoides yet?
johnw
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Trond, always exciting when a seed raised plant makes its first flowers, isn't it?
Maggi, it isn't the first flowers of the plant just the first flowers this year! if I remember rightly it is the 3rd flowering season ;D but i am still waiting for the flowers to open fully, the spring is very slow this year.
Ah, I misunderstood you. Your plant is lovely.
The first are exciting though, that's for sure.... I'm still waiting for the first flowers on my R. auriculatum...... it's been a long time coming and there is no sign that this summer will bring them... that's at least 26years of a wait so far..... ::)!
Thanks, Maggi. Could well be the other way around that I expressed myself poorly ;D
I have an auriculatum that has flowered sparsely every other year for several years and it is not that old - 15 maybe.
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Go on, cheer me up why don't you? I can't believe how long I've been patient with this blasted plant! I had to re-count the years three times before I posted because I couldn't credit it had been that long. :-
The seat I have ready placed to sit and enjoy the fragrant blossoms in the summer sun is decaying with years of neglect. The wood is crumbling.... if I sat on it now I'd probably fall through the blasted thing.
Bitter? Who, me??!!
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Rhododendron "Shamrock" is my first one to flower !
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A very good starter, Luc!
Go on, cheer me up why don't you? I can't believe how long I've been patient with this blasted plant! I had to re-count the years three times before I posted because I couldn't credit it had been that long. :-
The seat I have ready placed to sit and enjoy the fragrant blossoms in the summer sun is decaying with years of neglect. The wood is crumbling.... if I sat on it now I'd probably fall through the blasted thing.
Bitter? Who, me??!!
What shall I say? - use stone instead of wood??
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I don't know what's worse, you waiting for a plant to flower or me waiting for a plant that may die - the two last very cold winters have almost finished off this one (I have as usual forgot the name but it blooms in July - pix from two years ago).
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Rats, here is the foliage of a local Blue Tit. So I guess I will have to say Blue Diamond is closer Maggi.
I may have to dig out an auriculatum shot. ;)
Luc, I haven't seen Shamrock for a long time. It really is a good old hybrid and well grown to perfection in your care.
johnw
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Went around Lea gardens this week and although I am not much into hybrids these days I couldn't resist this one. Do any of you know its parentage (Yak in it of course) and anything about about it. I think it may have been raised by Warren Berg. It is named Bergs 10
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Ian - It's definitely a tsariense x yak hybrid or the reverse. (Maggi - I won't back down on this one!) If it's one of Warren's it's apt to be Queen Bee. Many have done this cross, some especially good ones out of Denmark.
johnw
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I have one very similar bred by the Coxes that is a yak x tsariense........
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Thanks John and Maggi I did think tsariense might be involved but the seller wasn't able to confirm this.
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Went around Lea gardens this week and although I am not much into hybrids these days I couldn't resist this one. Do any of you know its parentage (Yak in it of course) and anything about about it. I think it may have been raised by Warren Berg. It is named Bergs 10
Here's a good place to start, click on individual page links for pictures and parentage
http://www.hirsutum.info/hybridizers/plants-hybridizer.php?hyb=26&order= (http://www.hirsutum.info/hybridizers/plants-hybridizer.php?hyb=26&order=)
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At last - the flowers open up! A gale two days ago broke several flowers but the trusses are not that full anyway.
Rhododendron sutchuenense.
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A few more pictures from Culzean taken last week. The Rh. arboreums are at their best now. It always surprises me looking at the flowers 14 metres/45 feet in the air. I had never noticed the name of Rh. subarinsiense before although the plant is about 40 years old. The pictures will have to remain unnamed as when I add the name to them it changed the format and the web site will not accept the postings. The red flower is Rh.subarinsiense and the rest are Rh.arboreum and a Magnolia flower
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Hoy - A lovely pink form of sutchuenense!
And Tom thanks for the posting of those magical arboreums. Also good to see R. subanseriense which has only been a name till now and a nasty one to spell. Are the Magnolia campbelliis late there this year?
johnw
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Not really. Spring has a way of catching up quickly after a cold winter. The Campbelliis have been coming out for the past 2 weeks. The last time we were at Benmore they were in full bud and at Logan we will have to go shortly or we will miss them. In my own tiny garden, the stellata is in full flower, the loebneri is starting to drop its petals and my yellow flowered variety (label lost!) will be out in a few days.called Butterflies and purchased from Burncoose nursery about 4 years ago
A cinnabarinum I bought 10 years ago has produced its first flowers. All that I could read on the label was that it has blue-plum coloured flowers. What do I get? Butterscotch colours !!!. Too late to complain.
Forty years ago I bought 5 cinnabarinums from Bodnant Gardens and nurtured them until they died off on a yearly basis. I thought that it was solely my fault but I found out years later that it was the dreaded powdery milldew. I still imagine what the plants would look like now if they had survived.
At Cox's nursery at Glendoick on Saturday, they actually had several specimens of subansiriense for sale, so I buy a Lady Alice Fitzwilliam because I could not resist the scent. They are fully hardy at Logan gardens, Culzean, 12 miles south of me, have some very large Crassums which have fat healthy buds after the worst winter for ages. My problem is to plant or keep in a pot ----no decision yet.
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Lovely arboreums Tom just love the conical shape and overall look. I have one which has suffered badly in the last winter all flower buds were frosted :(
Just a few shots around my cabbage patch
R Endsleigh Pink
R Unique
R campanulatum shots 173 and 174. I think it is Knap Hill but not sure and I'm sorry can't get the camera to show the correct lavender pink colour which sounds awful but is in fact quite lovely)
A general shot showing Magnolia Caerhays Surprise and a closeup of the flower and the last 2 general shots today
R camplocarpum (I think)
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Lovely garden Ian - looks more like a park !
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Lovely garden Ian - looks more like a park !
Thanks Tom. The garden is not that big it is the selective use of the camera lens ;)
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Some Rhododendron shots from a visit to Lanhydrock House and garden yesterday. Some shots of Magnolias are in the Trees in Parks and Gardens thread; some general garden shots in the Visits to Gardens thread, and maybe a couple of Daffs in the Daffs thread.
Rhododendron 'Luderi Venus'
R. 'Robert Keir'
Two flowers, one plant
A Rhodos that took my eye, and a close up of same
Another that took my eye
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More from Lanhydrock.
I don't have names for these but have simply classified them as 'Rhododendron vistas'
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More Rhododendron vistas:-
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hello, here a rhododendron wildform in a through, grows very well in full sun....anyone know his name ???? his colour is creme/yellow
(http://i610.photobucket.com/albums/tt188/yuccajoe/garten%201/ysa005.jpg?t=1303240805)
thanks
chris
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Chris - It could very well be Rhododendron keiskei. Seems a tad late for your area though.
johnw
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thanks john, many rhodos here are now in or begins to flower.....
cheers
chris
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Chris - It could very well be Rhododendron keiskei. Seems a tad late for your area though.
johnw
Early for here.... so when I see the paeonias that Chris also has flowering now, then I'd bet on keiskei too... got that funny colouring at the leaf margins that it often has, too.
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Chris - It could very well be Rhododendron keiskei. Seems a tad late for your area though.
johnw
I'd agree with John Chris, maybe the subspecies cordifolia which is smaller, tighter. Those leaves are very typical of the reddish winter foliage turning back to green.
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Chris - It could very well be Rhododendron keiskei. Seems a tad late for your area though.
johnw
I'd agree with John Chris, maybe the subspecies cordifolia which is smaller, tighter. Those leaves are very typical of the reddish winter foliage turning back to green.
Lesley - I suppose it might be too early to make a precise determination if Chris' keiskei is a young plant. However you're probably quite right. Your v. cordifolia is certainly the smallest I've seen. The next size up would be Yaku Fairy which is also a v. cordifolia. I have another here which is now about 1m wide x 35cm high after 33 years (which is YF x regular keiskei) and yet another which is over .75m high after about 10 years. The latter is borderline here while the others are extremely hardy. One would presume the taller one is from a lower altitude.
johnw - blowing and pelting rain at 3c; lucky as others are getting sn.....
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Here are some of my rhodos that are in flower now.
R thomsonii and 'Jacksonii' in the woodland among other shrubs and trees.
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R pentaphyllum - or is it something else?
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R pentaphyllum - or is it something else?
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Maybe R. vaseyi? Although that generally has more dense clusters of flowers. Other related species I can think of is R. albrechtii but that has much darker flowers, the one I had in flower had almost unnatural deep cerise flowers. Pentaphyllum as I know it has the very characteristic red rimmed leaves, why do you think it is not that species?.
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R pentaphyllum - or is it something else?
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Maybe R. vaseyi?
Blooming with thomsonii it might be a pale R. schlippenbachii. These Japanese deciduous azalea species are a minefield for the identifier. Photos here attached for comparison.
johnw
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Thanks for suggestions.
R pentaphyllum - or is it something else?
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Maybe R. vaseyi? Although that generally has more dense clusters of flowers. Other related species I can think of is R. albrechtii but that has much darker flowers, the one I had in flower had almost unnatural deep cerise flowers. Pentaphyllum as I know it has the very characteristic red rimmed leaves, why do you think it is not that species?.
It is definitely neither vaseyi nor albrechtii or schlippenbachii.
I have come to the conclusion that it is pentaphyllum, thinking of the leaves! Thanks for reminding me!
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Azalea Satan in my front garden.
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It is definitely neither vaseyi nor albrechtii or schlippenbachii.
I have come to the conclusion that it is pentaphyllum, thinking of the leaves! Thanks for reminding me!
Hoy - Here are a few shots of pentaphyllum done by others. I am pretty sure the foliage shot I attach is var. nikoense, almost identical to the var. nikoense 'Chichibu' I had. Agreed there's of course no mistaking the foliage of schlippenbachiii once it unfurls and all the albrechtiis here are a unique shade of cerise red (posted for others, WGP form) to plum purple, most very very dark. According to Cox re: pentaphyllum "shoots arising from below rather than within the terminal bud" & "in whorls of five"; style should be glabrous, stamen count 10. I count 9 on yours so maybe count some others as the main flower may be breaking the rules.
I suppose many of these are easy for some to identify by gestalt, hard for me by gestalt if I've never owned a species. ;)
Michael - devilishly good Satan there.
johnw
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John, the reason why I think it is pentaphyllum is that I know I have planted one (if correctly named) once! I also have a schlippenbachii and it is different. vaseyii is very different and I never had albrechtii.
Here is a pic taken today: How many stamens do you count ;)
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Hoy - It's a beauty! I'm afraid I can't count the stamens from that distance though. It will be interesting to see the leaves.
At a conference in Bergen Hideo Suzuki showed pix of these Japanese azalea species in the wild, they were huge and looked like Cornus kousa from a distance. I was stunned.
Hoy - Is that one of the Hobbies in the rear?
johnw
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Rhododendron dauricum v. nanum 'Compactum Roseum' has been in flower here for several days but the rains have been too heavy to photograph. Seems to have the cleanest pink flowers of all the dauricums and extremely restrained growth.
johnw
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R. christianae x jasminiflorum still in flower.
Tropic Glow x saxifragoides has been in flower a few weeks.
To the outdoors R. primuliflorum Glendoick deep pink form is already showing colour. Fabulous foliage scented of crushed strawberries.
johnw
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Hoy - It's a beauty! I'm afraid I can't count the stamens from that distance though. It will be interesting to see the leaves.
At a conference in Bergen Hideo Suzuki showed pix of these Japanese azalea species in the wild, they were huge and looked like Cornus kousa from a distance. I was stunned.
Hoy - Is that one of the Hobbies in the rear?
johnw
I was kidding, John ;) I had counted several flowers and they all have 10 stamens (of different length and in some flowers one or two were very short).
I couldn't attain that conference in Bergen, was sorry for that!
Ad Hobbie; I am not sure what it is. I have had this shrub for several years and it takes cold winters better than mild ones. The flowerbuds are destroyed if it is too mild in the winter!
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You certainly have some nice rhodos! I especially liked christianae x jasminiflorum!
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Hoy - Is that one of the Hobbies in the rear?
You certainly have some nice rhodos! I especially liked christianae x jasminiflorum!
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Hoy - That one looks very much like Hobbie's 'Baden Baden' with the typical twist of the leaves. These really early ones can move buds in the autumn especially if the autumn is very long and mild, then they get zapped. Excuse the photo here as I cannot capture reds with the Nikon Coolpix 8700. The red is very close to your plant. How did you capture the red so well, any tips?
I can always send you a few cuttings of the christianae x jasminiflorum. It's an old Vireya hybrid and very easy to root as long as drainage is extremely sharp. They take in stride drought but not wetness or over-watering.
johnw
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Hoy - That one looks very much like Hobbie's 'Baden Baden' with the typical twist of the leaves. These really early ones can move buds in the autumn especially if the autumn is very long and mild, then they get zapped. Excuse the photo here as I cannot capture reds with the Nikon Coolpix 8700. The red is very close to your plant. How did you capture the red so well, any tips?
I can always send you a few cuttings of the christianae x jasminiflorum. It's an old Vireya hybrid and very easy to root as long as drainage is extremely sharp. They take in stride drought but not wetness or over-watering.
johnw
From your description I think it can be 'Baden Baden'. I know that bred has been for sale here years ago. We often have long mild falls and many rhodos flower then, thisone too.
Regarding capture of the red, I haven't done anything special. I use a Nicon coolpix S8000.
I say yes please and thank you for your offer of cuttings ;D ;D
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Regarding capture of the red, I haven't done anything special. I use a Nicon coolpix S8000.
What settings are you using?
johnw
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Regarding capture of the red, I haven't done anything special. I use a Nicon coolpix S8000.
What settings are you using?
johnw
I bought the camera some months ago and I haven't changed any settings so it is as I got it. I usually use automatic exposure time and aperture and closeup to take flower pictures and that's that ;)
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Rhododendron calostrotum 'Gigha' one of my favourites. The foliage is as good as the flowers. Flowering cut short by frost this year.
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Rhododendron calostrotum 'Gigha' one of my favourites. The foliage is as good as the flowers. Flowering cut short by frost this year.
'Gigha' was one of my favorits too till I lost it may years ago!
Here are three of the 50+ rhodos flowering in my garden now.
Rh. lanatum Muncaster Castle (has it got its own species name?)
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Rh. cinnabarinum Roylei group I think. It is not very floriferous but has a lot of flowers this year. Unharmed of the cold winter.
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The last I can't remember the name of!
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Lovely rhodos, Trond... is the last R. wardii?
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Lovely rhodos, Trond... is the last R. wardii?
Thank you Maggie.
I think you maybe right, I know I have planted a wardii or wardii hybrid some time. I didn't recall it was there though ;D
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One of the early rhododendrons today.
R. mucronulatum ('Cornell Pink x 'Woodland Pink') listing to starboard due to a huge Chamaecyparis nootkatenseis (since removed) to its south.
johnw
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John,
very fine species of R. mucronulatum. The ones I know are all less flowering species with a bad habit.
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Uli - This mucronulatum was very bushy and heavy flowering until the Nootka shaded it badly. It is now filling out slowly with a mass of shoots at the base. Actually this is rather sparse bloom for it normally. This was the first rhodo I bought in the mid-70's along with kaempferi and PJM and is now 3-4m high. I can self it if you'd like seed. In fact I was going to cross it with the dwarf pink dauricum v. nanum Compactum Roseum too.
I saw the white form at our sale today and only a few sold. Have to pick one up.
johnw
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Bud set on Spellbinder, they're huge. And the pink Pieris japonica 'Shojo'.
johnw
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That pink Pieris is showy. 8)
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Some recent ones from me.
Rhododendron Wine and Roses that has finished now.
'Creamy Chiffon' and 'Arctic Tern'
Azalea 'Persil'
Azalea 'Purpur Traum'
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It is interesting to see Persil flowering so well. I had this one 30 years ago and it refused to grow. It was about 2 feet high when I got it and it flowered quite well but refused to get any bigger. After 10 years I chucked it out. Then a few years ago I was reading Cox's catalogue and it said that Persil did not do well in the West of Scotland. I could have saved myself some grief if I had known that at the time I planted it. !
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Uli - This mucronulatum was very bushy and heavy flowering until the Nootka shaded it badly. It is now filling out slowly with a mass of shoots at the base. Actually this is rather sparse bloom for it normally. This was the first rhodo I bought in the mid-70's along with kaempferi and PJM and is now 3-4m high. I can self it if you'd like seed. In fact I was going to cross it with the dwarf pink dauricum v. nanum Compactum Roseum too.
I saw the white form at our sale today and only a few sold. Have to pick one up.
johnw
Thanks John for the offer. But the flowers of R. mucornulatum a killed by the frost in 9 of 10 years.
So it is better to have Mezitt-cultivars here. The are good growers and flower very well here.
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Uli - I was very surpised to hear you only flower mucronulatum 1 out of 10 years. I got this mucronulatum in about 1974 and it has never once been frosted, not even in the memorable freeze of April 1981 when it was several weeks ahead.
A few rhododendrons in flower here.
Does anyone know the name of the last one which is weel ahead of Taurus & Grace Seabrook but blooming with fargesii? It has a tiny red blotch dead centre.
When will these torrential rain stop? Low pressure system stalled south of Halifax. We will soon throw out the 5cm rain guage and use a 160L drum instead.
johnw
thomsonii L&S DSCN0680.JPG.jpg
rex Berkley x rex Quartz DSCN0661.JPG.jpg
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Oh my, that Rh fargesii is stunning!
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You have some lovely stuff John.
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John, I can only quote David!
Here are one of my plants in flower now, Rh cinnabarinum xanthocodon
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And some more.
The first is 'Lem's Monarch'. A very handsome plant.
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The second I thought was named 'Moonshine Girl' but I can't verify it.
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The third is unnamed - I have forgotten it (and I loose the tags).
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Uli - I was very surpised to hear you only flower mucronulatum 1 out of 10 years. I got this mucronulatum in about 1974 and it has never once been frosted, not even in the memorable freeze of April 1981 when it was several weeks ahead.
A few rhododendrons in flower here.
Does anyone know the name of the last one which is weel ahead of Taurus & Grace Seabrook but blooming with fargesii? It has a tiny red blotch dead centre.
When will these torrential rain stop? Low pressure system stalled south of Halifax. We will soon throw out the 5cm rain guage and use a 160L drum instead.
johnw
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Looks like Cynthia to me
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I have enjoyed all the beautiful picures on these rhododendron pages, - thank you all. My little contribution is a North-American threesome, first R. tomentosum v. subarcticum, second R. canadense, and third R. vaseyi. The last two were grown from seed 12-14 years ago, seeds from Gardens North, I think. They must have liked the cold winter we had, they have never bloomed so well before.
Knud
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The third is unnamed - I have forgotten it (and I loose the tags).
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Hoy - I wonder if this might be Horizon Monarch. ::)
johnw
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Looks like Cynthia to me
Ian - It's far too early for Cynthia and the leaves say a strigillosum hybrid. Someone mentioned it may be another Grace Seabrook that is farther along, sounded reasonable to me.
johnw
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The third is unnamed - I have forgotten it (and I loose the tags).
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Hoy - I wonder if this might be Horizon Monarch. ::)
johnw
That's possible, John, but as I said I have lost all tags (or actually removed them when they are illegible).
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Looks like Cynthia to me
Ian - It's far too early for Cynthia and the leaves say a strigillosum hybrid. Someone mentioned it may be another Grace Seabrook that is farther along, sounded reasonable to me.
johnw
John can't really see the foliage well enough in the photo though on close inspection the leaves are different. Grace Seabroook in the ones I have seen seems much deeper in colour than the one you show. Strange how the seasons differ my Cynthia (below) is almost at an end and has faded.
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'Spellbinder' is on the move. Yesterday's brief bout of sun and 18c seems to have speeded this otherwise early flowerer up, we haven't seen the sun for a month.
johnw
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Rhododendron Spellbinder today.
johnw - the clouds and gloom continue.
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Not a large one this in fact one if not the smallest
R lowndesii
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Not a large one this in fact one if not the smallest
R lowndesii
And if not one of the most difficult to grow. Bravo Ian! What a delight. :o :o :o :o :o Tell us more about growing it.
I have the first bud on a 2 or 3 year old seedling but my plants in a trough are not as pristine as yours.
(Have you been picking the flowers? ;))
johnw - 20mm last night
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Not a large one this in fact one if not the smallest
R lowndesii
And if not one of the most difficult to grow. Bravo Ian! What a delight. :o :o :o :o :o Tell us more about growing it.
I have the first bud on a 2 or 3 year old seedling but my plants in a trough are not as pristine as yours.
(Have you been picking the flowers? ;))
johnw - 20mm last night
I'm afraid I can take little credit . I got it only this year and the flower buds and pristine growth are down to someone else. It is planted in a half shady humus bed and time will tell if I can keep it in the good condition I received it :-\
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A few flowers from today.
johnw
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I'm afraid I can take little credit . I got it only this year and the flower buds and pristine growth are down to someone else. It is planted in a half shady humus bed and time will tell if I can keep it in the good condition I received it :-\
Ian - You're very lucky to have found this one. Mine came from seed ex Devon. Not one you'd readily find in North America.
johnw
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Not a large one this in fact one if not the smallest
R lowndesii
Would someone kindly pass Lesley the smelling salts?
johnw
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Lesley is trying to struggle up from the floor, and gasping for breath. :o :o :o Ian that little gem is pure gold and you must treasure it with your life. Well of course, you will. Just such a thrill to see the real thing and in such perfect condition. My little bit of seed didn't germinate but I have hopes of a small seedling from 'Pipit,' which is just about prostrate. No bud yet though.
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Lesley is trying to struggle up from the floor, and gasping for breath. :o :o :o Ian that little gem is pure gold and you must treasure it with your life. Well of course, you will. Just such a thrill to see the real thing and in such perfect condition. My little bit of seed didn't germinate but I have hopes of a small seedling from 'Pipit,' which is just about prostrate. No bud yet though.
Lesley thank you but all credit must go to its previous owner a very expert grower indeed.
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Azalea "Home Bush" 3 years old
Wolfgang
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Today I went for a stroll in the garden. About 100 specimens in flower now. Here are a few.
Two named ones: Lem's Monarch and Midnight Mystique
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Rhododendron Schneeflöckchen from Glendoick, a Wofgang Reich hybrid and probably growable in extremely cold areas. (Originally posted as frosthexe, apologies)
johnw
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R. chryseum Fred Robins form and another of June's Bride. There is pink in many whites due to the cold spring, even Fragrantissimum which has always been a pristine white has pink outers this year.
johnw
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One of the best native North American azalea species one can grow, Rhododendron vaseyi. There's a pure white form called 'White Find' that is especially delicious. Good pink ones crop up every so often in a sowing.
johnw
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R. oreotrephes can have exceptional foliage in good forms.
johnw
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You do have some very fine specimens, John!
Where are the foliage of oreotrephes? I can't see anything but flowers!
One of the first rhodos I acquired was 'Tidbt'. It is still with me but I have to reduce some branches after flowering now. It grows too wide!
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You do have some very fine specimens, John!
Where are the foliage of oreotrephes? I can't see anything but flowers!
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but the color of the bayport oreotrephes is extremely good - I think
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You do have some very fine specimens, John!
Where are the foliage of oreotrephes? I can't see anything but flowers!
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but the color of the bayport oreotrephes is extremely good - I think
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Jens - I don't think the foliage on the Bayport form is a smashing as the one you show, superb.
By the way, I got caught posting a shot of Frosthexe when in fact it was Reich's "Schneeflöckchen", now corrected. The forumist are a sharp bunch, thanks Jens.
johnw
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Rhododendron Schneeflöcken from Glendoick, a Wofgang Reich hybrid and probably growable in extremely cold areas. (Originally posted as frosthexe, apologies)
johnw
John,
I must correct the name a second time. Rhododendron 'SCHNEEFLÖCKCHEN'. Some small type are lost between the continents. ;D
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Thanks Uli.
johnw
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Another must-have rhododendron is R. albrechtii. The colour is a bit darker than it appears in the photos. it seems to be quite late this year.
johnw
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An old standby that flowers heavily every year R. 'Goldfort'. The night air is filled with the scent of melons.
johnw
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A couple of rather tender plants at Logan Gardens which did not enjoy our long, cold Winter but have managed to survive and flower. These were very recent plantings and the varieties were new to me. Looking round the gardens, of the tender varieties, it was Egeworthii which seemed to be the most damaged. The leaves do not seem to be tough enough to take frost and heavy winds. The Maddenii and Crassums seem to have come through virtually unscathed. The Crassums seem to be flowering about 2 weeks later then usual which is bucking the trend as everything else is 2 weeks earlier. The wait is worth it for the wonderful scent.
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Touring another friend's garden it is clear Rhododendron prefer to grow in rocky soil than in heavy soils. The first shots show 2 true yakushimanums growing in the cracks of rocks along with many self-sown Callunas and Ericas.
When Jens Birck visited this garden the owners were distraught as the previous night their garden was devastated in Hurricane Juan. They lost countless trees but I can't recall a single damaged rhodo. Jens calmy told them not to worry as they would have more flowers than ever before with a sunny garden - and so it has come to pass.
johnw
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Yet another friend's garden. Rhododendron fortunei that I grew from seed, the flowers are about as large as you will see in a fortunei. It was interesting to hear others trying to describe the fragrance, the consensus was of melons though a good number said of rootbeer froth!
As the blackflies were out everyone was given a sprig of sweet woodruf to ward them off. I'm afraid it didn't work so well.
johnw
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Just the type of garden I really enjoy 8)
That fortunei is a bosker..... I love her! She is absolutely gorgeous.
I don't know what root beer froth smells like, so a bit of research needed there..... :P
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Sorry here are the self-sown Callunas & Ericas in the foreground.
BTW the paths and woods were in this garden had hundreds if not thousands of self-sown rhodos. Even primulas were coming up in the gravelly and mulched pathways.
johnw
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johnW:When Jens Birck visited this garden the owners were distraught as the previous night their garden was devastated in Hurricane Juan. They lost countless trees but I can't recall a single damaged rhodo. Jens calmy told them not to worry as they would have more flowers than ever before with a sunny garden - and so it has come to pass.
Yes-Strangely no rhododendron was damaged.
All the stumps look like this shown in the photo.
Snaped of 2 meters above the ground!!!!(461)
And here a good example what light can do to a rhododendron , here in Nova Scotia
-before in the shade of a tree , and seldom any flowers - note tree stump - now in full light .
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jens
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johnW:When Jens Birck visited this garden the owners were distraught as the previous night their garden was devastated in Hurricane Juan. They lost countless trees but I can't recall a single damaged rhodo. Jens calmy told them not to worry as they would have more flowers than ever before with a sunny garden - and so it has come to pass.
Yes-Strangely no rhododendron was damaged.
All the stumps look like this shown in the photo.
Snaped of 2 meters above the ground!!!!(461)
jens
And here is that same rhodo a few years later. The pine stump has disappeared but is still in the middle of the plant.
johnw
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What luxury to have that much space.......... :)
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What luxury to have that much space.......... :)
Maggi - That's only half the plant. The septic truck backed over the other half more than 20 years ago. The owner stuck the broken half in the ground and it last for several months before collapsing!
I've lost track but I think we're in the 8th week of rain and heavy fog.
johnw
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Rhododendron kiusianum can take as much wind as you can throw at it. This one is using a rock to hold itself up. Here's one growing right at the coast with a self-seeded camtschaticum.
johnw.
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......a self-seeded camtschaticum
I should be so lucky :-X
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......a self-seeded camtschaticum
I should be so lucky :-X
Happy as a clam here as a R. camtschaticum (white form) from Jens Nielsen in 2001 has indeed flowered white. one flower. As it grew slowly I suspected it might be be a white but then as it was still alive a couple of years later I suspected it was not white. Ten years later finally a flower and it's a white. I wouldn't care to say how many times I've tried to get one tamed.
johnw - now cloudy and a big rain predicted for this afternoon.
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John I'm delighted to see your white because, God forgive me, your seed is still sitting on the table, in packet, waiting to be posted. Don't know why I haven't done it. It will go tomorrow. (Monday)
Mine took a few years to flower too (not 10 though) but has grown MUCH MUCH quicker than the tiny plant which, judging from the foliage colour, will be pink or red.
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No rush Lesley. Canada Post has been on strike since last weekend and Air Canada - the postal carrier - as well. Both were legislated back to work. Chances are NZ would not have sent them along anyway.
Teeming here yet again. The camtschaticums are loving this weather.
johnw
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At one time this plant considered to be the height of fashion - now we would call it garish, and yet who could not be bowled over by R. dalhousiae var.rhabdotum with its candy-stripes?
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At one time this plant considered to be the height of fashion - now we would call it garish, and yet who could not be bowled over by R. dalhousiae var.rhabdotum with its candy-stripes?
Completely bowled over here! Well done.
johnw
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This Forum is still in sad lack of a scent button.... lovely dalhousiae, Frazer!
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Truly gorgeous. 8)
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Rhododendron 'St. Valentine' in flower today.
johnw
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I did some crossing with R. spinuliferum this year. Exactly how big does this species get? I recall one in Port Ludlow, Wa. that was about 2 meters x maybe 2.5 meters. No doubt in Scotland it would get huge. I crossed it with a dwarf but the seedlings are growing at a very alarming rate.
johnw
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Rhododendron 'St. Valentine' in flower today.
johnw
Very nice John.
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I did some crossing with R. spinuliferum this year. Exactly how big does this species get? I recall one in Port Ludlow, Wa. that was about 2 meters x maybe 2.5 meters. No doubt in Scotland it would get huge. I crossed it with a dwarf but the seedlings are growing at a very alarming rate.
johnw
One I saw in inland NSW Australia a couple of years ago was 3 metres I would say. Hard to tell the width as it was among maples which could have forced it up I suppose.
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One I saw in inland NSW Australia a couple of years ago was 3 metres I would say. Hard to tell the width as it was among maples which could have forced it up I suppose.
Lesley - Then I'm happy I crossed it with a dwarf. Still the seedlings are already a foot tall. ::)
johnw