Dwarf Rhododendron for ID

[Graham Catlow]

Hi,
I wonder if anyone could ID this Dwarf Rhododendron for me please.
I think the photos describe it well enough without any text from me.
Graham

[johnw]

Perhpas 'Arctic Tern' from Glendoick.

johnw

[Graham Catlow]

Perhpas 'Arctic Tern' from Glendoick.

johnw

John
You are absolutely correct. I remember it now.
And I bought it from Glendoick

Two requests for ID's in two weeks and both answered. What a great forum this is
Though I think I may have some more difficult ones, (not Rhodos.), to come in future weeks when they flower.

Many thanks John!
Graham

[Maggi Young]

I agree with John... it's an 'Arctic Tern'.

This is a slightly unusual plant, being thought to be a hybrid between a Ledum ( now subsumed into Rhododendron) and R. trichostomum.... thus the taxonomists turned it from a bi-generic hybrid into a "plain" hybrid at one fell swoop.

You can  see that the foliage is very "ledum-ish" while the flowers are sort of half way between the  ledum style and the daphne -like flowers of the trichostomum... nice thing! 

[Graham Catlow]

Maggi,
You are a mine of information on so many subjects.
All I wanted was a name but your further information is really interesting. I will have to go and have a good look at it tomorow instead of just admiring it.
Many thanks.

Graham

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Graham.... I thought such a snippet of info would be of interest to a few folks.... nice to have more than the name, I think, when there is a wee tale to tell.

[johnw]

While were sort of on the subject of Pogonantha Rhododendrons, here are a few in flower here earlier this week...

trichostomum (Jens Birck selection)

primuliflorum 'Doker La'

Sarled  - a cross between sargentianum and trichostomum

Schneeflöcken  - a cross between a Pogo species and my mind's gone blank. Maggi  

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Great plants, John, but I don't know the 'Schneeflöcken' .... don't even know it as Snowflake.... al the Schnee------   ones I can think of are larger hybrids, of catawbiense etc.......

[johnw]

Great plants, John, but I don't know the 'Schneeflöcken' .... don't even know it as Snowflake.... al the Schnee------   ones I can think of are larger hybrids, of catawbiense etc.......

Maggi - I found an old Glendoick catalogue where Scheeflöcken is simply listed as a x trichostomum.  

A couple more Pogonantha  pix - this one may be 'Bridal Bucket Bouquet'.


johnw

[Maggi Young]

Thanks John... the BD in a fit of tidying, threw out my Glendoick archive  

[johnw]

the BD in a fit of tidying, threw out my Glendoick archive

Maggi - I had no idea men did such things indoors, the garage or toolshed perhaps, but never indoors.  Hang on to that one unless more valuable things go missing - chocolates etc.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Heavens to Murgatroyd! There is more chance of me returning to svelte beauty than there is of the Boss tidying the garage  (his woodworking place) or any of the several sheds on the premises.

It is simply that on occasion, in an attempt "to show me how it's done", he blitzes some innocent part of the house.... sadly only achieving the destruction of one of my old hoards of ephemera... the swine! The man is a despot in more ways than one, I tell you.

And this behaviour in spite of my agrement to remove/pass on some of my Erics to make  more room for his bulbs...... can't remember when we last sacrificed one of his rhodos.....I should "gift" them all to his ownership, it might protct them better.

[David Nicholson]

........ it's a man thing, the garage and the sheds are his territories. When will you women ever learn