Rhododendrons 2014

[Robert]

The colour picture is reasonably accurate.  It is described as peachy amber on the label but it seems to fade to cream pink and is described as hardy.  It has a cinnabarinum in it's parentage and was obtained from Glendoick.  The web site below gives the full details.
 
. http://www.rhododendron.org/descriptionH_new.asp?ID=996

Tom,

Thanks for the information!

Thorkild,

Great photos! and your garden looks fabulous!

[Thorkild Godsk]

Rhododendron.
 Rhododendron Diandi (Viscy)
Rhododendron schlippenbachii
Rhododendron anthopogon lapponicum
Thorkild - DK

[Tomasz Cyba]

Thorkild, I beg to disagree. The way I see it, the first one is 'Viscy'.

[Thorkild Godsk]

Rhododendron
Hello Tomasz
I understand you well,
I bought it many years ago as Rh. goldika, so I owe you an answer because I've never bought Viscy.
Thorkild - DK

[Tomasz Cyba]

Hello Thorkild,

Below are photo galleries of 'Goldika' and 'Viscy' from the Deutsche Genbank Rhododendron site. I guess the pictures posted there are legit. You can also find there descriptions of these varieties, with flower and foliage characteristics (click 'Allgemeine Daten').

R. 'Goldika' photo gallery
R. 'Viscy' photo gallery

[Thorkild Godsk]

Thanks Tomasz, I have fixed it to Diandi Viscy
Thorkild-DK

[TC]

We took a chance on the good weather to visit Logan Gardens on Sunday.  At this time of year most of the scented varieties are in flower except Crassum, Maddenii and Dalhousii.
My favourite  "Roylemadd" was looking the best I have ever seen it.  It is a cross between Cinnabarinum roylei x Madennii  with the cinnabarinum tubular flowers and the beautiful scent of the Madennii.  As far as I know, Logan is it's only home.
Another one that was new to me was an Edgeworthii named Logan Dream - beautiful marked blooms and a really strong perfumed scent.  If they could have made ice cream from it, I would have eaten it.
Not all pictures of Rh. but I can't be bothered separating them !

    SRGC-logan-gardens- Rh.Roylemadd 008.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- Rh Roylemadd bush 010.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens-Rh.edgeworthii 011.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- Rh. Logan dream 023.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- bluebell path 034.jpg

[TC]

Part 2
    SRGC-logan-gardens- Echium 016.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- sophora golden rain tree 036.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- gunnera leaf 032.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- Rh crassum bud 018.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- Rh Horlickianum 012.jpg

[TC]

part 3

    SRGC-logan-gardens- Echium 016.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- sophora golden rain tree 036.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- gunnera leaf 032.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- Rh crassum bud 018.jpg
    SRGC-logan-gardens- Rh Horlickianum 012.jpg

[Maggi Young]

You were taking a risk letting Cindy get that close to the Gunnera, Tom - they might have been hungry and she'd have been gone in an instant!
Roylemadd is very lovely ( well, they ALL are, to my eyes 

[Robert]

It is nice to see everything lush and nice. The big heat is here, and with the third year of drought it has not taken long for many of the rhododendron flowers to fade quickly. I liked it when it rained into June.

Thanks for sharing the photos Tom!

[TC]

The scary thing about the gunnera is that it is this size already.  By July it will be twice this size...about 3 metres.  I always half expect some carniverous dinosaur to be lurking about in the depths of the planting.

[TC]

Expecting rain by the afternoon so I have taken a few more in the garden in case of flower damage.
Winsome does not photograph well.  The shine off the flower masks the delicate pink and comes out as white in the picture.  I should have used a polaroid filter to cut out the reflection

Maggi
Tried to show the plant names in the text but failed !

[David Nicholson]

Your garden must be an absolute joy at this time of year Tom. I take it you have a large garden or do you just get a lot of plants in a small one?

[TC]

Actually it is rather small.  The back garden is about 63' x 30' and 50' x 12' at the front.  I just keep stuffing plants in until the ground disappears.  However, I always fail to note how big rhododendrons can get - even the "small"varieties.  Winsome was round the back garden a year ago.  After a few years it has grown to about 4 feet high by 3 feet in diameter.   The Loderi is now 9 feet.  An apple tree I planted from a seedling is now 20 feet high with a similar spread and I am still putting in plants.  Now it is meconopsis.