Rhododendrons 2014

[Maggi Young]

 Again from the RBGE twitter page :
Rhododendron kaempferi and lichens combining to beautiful effect



 A  spring garden view



 Rhododendron loderi opening

[Steve Garvie]

Rhododendron forrestii repens



Not a floriferous species.   

[Roma]

Some flowers on Rhododendron augustinii this year.  Sometimes I wonder why I keep it but it's a lovely blue.  It got badly damaged in the 2010-2011 winter.  I waited till the new growth started then cut it back to make a tidier shape.  It made a lot of long growths in the damp summers of 2011 and 2012.  Some got broken and some eaten by deer.
   

[Thorkild Godsk]

Rhododendron
4 picture of Rhododendron in bloom.
1 Cephalantum ssp platyphyllum
2 hanceanum
3 wightii
4 makinoi x pachysanthum

Thorkild DK

[johnralphcarpenter]

Rhododendron yakushimanum 'Golden Torch'

[johnw]

Rhododendron
4 picture of Rhododendron in bloom.
1 Cephalantum ssp platyphyllum
2 hanceanum
3 wightii
4 makinoi x pachysanthum
Thorkild DK

Thor  - Tell us about the R. wightii.  Was it grown from c.w. seed?  I understand the wightii of bygone days with the floppy truss was a hybrid.  A friend told me it was so floppy that folks often wired the truss up straight to enter it in the big UK shows.

Like that platy and neat flowered makpach.

johnw

[Philip Walker]

A bit one sided as it had to have some remedial work.
R. 'Curlew'

[Robert]

All the rhododendrons look great.

Years ago I was foolish enough to try R. forrestii repans. Needless to say it is long gone, and if for some reason it did survive it never would have looked as nice as the one posted by Steve. It looks great!

'Curlew' is gone from our garden now, but it did manage to survive for 10 plus years. However, it never really looked good or seemed happy.

Thorkild,

Once again your rhododendrons look very nice. I hope you can follow up with the story of your R. wrightii.

[Thorkild Godsk]

Rhododendron Wighthii
The seeds I have from Dublin's Botanic Gardens.
W. H. 65-92
Thorkild-DK

[fermi de Sousa]

I can't grow Rhodies here (another thing you can grow that I can't, Maggi!) but there were a lot od Vireyas at the FCHS Show today - I've posted pics of them here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11751.0
Enjoy!
cheers
fermi

 (Edit by maggi - new thread link made)

[johnralphcarpenter]

Rhododendron 'Graziella'

[johnw]

re: Graziela

John  - How will Graziela fare under the new EU regulations concerning "ponticum" and it's hybrids?  I always thought it would be interesting to cross it with makinoi.

johnw

[johnralphcarpenter]

re: Graziela

John  - How will Graziela fare under the new EU regulations concerning "ponticum" and it's hybrids?  I always thought it would be interesting to cross it with makinoi.

johnw

That's anybody's guess!

[Robert]

We are getting into our late season with our rhododendrons and azaleas.

#1 This is the first of the R. calendulaceum up at the farm.

#2  This old calendulaceum x atlanticum hybrid is interesting. Some years the flowers are white with only a small yellowish rim, other years they are as in the photograph.

#3 R. quinquefilium - I also enjoy is foliage.

#4 Up at the farm, this old R. decorum is from wild seed. Very fragrant!

#5 One of my ancient hybrids, fortunei x ririei. A giant, and perhaps nothing special; it stays in the garden as it is appreciated with all the other plants in the garden.

[ian mcenery]

This one is doing well this year and the scent is wonderful. Unfortunately a frost is predicted for tomorrow night

R loderi King George