Rhododendron... every garden should have some

[johnw]

Here a photo of my nikko foliage together with a brachycarpum v. roseum( the smaller one) birck

Nice looking peat block that the leaves are sitting on!

johnw

[Hoy]

Just a note that there are rhodos in this Bulb Log thread.....http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8819.0

enjoy!

I have enjoyed myself, Maggi! Especially the one (yours?) from ACE seed

[Maggi Young]

That's good!
We were lucky with the rhodos from ACE seed... some very nice plants.

Sadly, the Bulb Despot no longer approves of growing more rhodos from seed ... mutters about lack of space for bulbs.......

[Hoy]

I feel with you, Maggi! But I have the problem myself - i want to grow more rhodos, more other shrubs and a lot of other plants, notably rock garden plants. But space is limited (and so is my time)
However, the authority has given up her part of the garden - and that is not my fault

[Diane Whitehead]

I have grown many rhododendrons from seed even though I have
only a half acre.  One brother has forty acres and his son has ten.
They are both willing to receive as many of my rhodos as I want
to give them.  Then I can visit my plants when they are in flower.

[Hoy]

I have grown many rhododendrons from seed even though I have
only a half acre.  One brother has forty acres and his son has ten.
They are both willing to receive as many of my rhodos as I want
to give them.  Then I can visit my plants when they are in flower.

Hope they don't live too far away!
I have 50 acres of forestland but it is 500km away from me and I have to walk several hours from the nearest road to reach it! I have not carried rhodos up there but that was a thought though However it is a lot of European elks and roe deer there . . . .

[Maggi Young]

I have grown many rhododendrons from seed even though I have
only a half acre.  One brother has forty acres and his son has ten.
They are both willing to receive as many of my rhodos as I want
to give them.  Then I can visit my plants when they are in flower.

A perfect system, Diane!

[TC]

Diane, An acre of land here would cost the earth and no doubt have about 8 houses built on it.  My house built in 1971 has a back garden of 60 x 30 feet,  The front is 60 x 15 feet with a space of about 8 feet up to the boundary with my neighbour's house. This equates to approx. 1/12 of an acre including the house !
You can see from this, even medium sized Rhododendrons are hard to fit.
  The average modern house build has no garden worth speaking of.  The gable ends of the houses are about 8 feet apart -you have just enough room to push the"wheelie bin" round the side.
We can only dream of having large gardens anywhere near our towns or else a lottery win to fulfill our dreams.

[TC]

I had a good look round the garden this morning to find that the -1c frost and strong N. winds had trashed most of the Rhododendron and Camellia flowers.  The Magnolia stellata and loebneri "Leonard Messel" flowers were undamaged.  Rh. Elizabeth, Augustinii, Patty Bee and Albrechtii will have to wait until next year for undamaged flowers;
We had a walk round Culzean Country Park this afternoon and the same result was seen there.  From a distance I saw an attractive large leaved Rh. with salmon pink flowers.
When I got closer, I realised it was a Macabeanum with frost damage.  All the Magnolias that were open two weeks ago were off the trees.  Any plants in tight bud looked OK unless we get more of the same.
In the nursery beds, I came across some small plants of Rh.Lochinch Spinburn.  I had to look this up on the web and traced it to Quinish Garden Nursery on Mull.  It would appear to be a Hirsutum cross.  I will have to keep my eye on it when it is planted out in the woods. In the Camellia house they had 4  Rh.edgeworthii hybrids planted in pots.  The scent was wonderfull.
The Rh. picture and the Magnolia campbellii were taken on 25 March as the weather was warming up.

[zvone]

Hi!
   
Azalea already is blooming in my garden:



More pictures: http://zvonem.blogspot.news/

Best Regards!  zvone

[zvone]

Hi!

Blooming Rhododendron from My Garden:



Someone wishes for him in his garden. Recommend.

Best regards!  Zvone

[David Nicholson]

A couple of pictures here of a deciduous Azalia I've had for a few years now. It's a shy flowerer but this year it's excelled itself. It's very prone to catching a white mould during the summer!!!!!? months. It has a slight scent. The thing is I don't have a label and I've forgotten what it is, can anyone ID it please?

[Maggi Young]

Rhododendron luteum, David - I can smell it from here, even through the rain!

[David Nicholson]

Thanks Maggi, and thanks too for not telling me I'd spelt it wrong.  Azalea. Azalea. Azalea. Azalea

Now, do I take it that it's not an Azalea at all even though it's deciduous?

[Maggi Young]

All Azaleas are rhododenrons... but not all rhodos are azaleas   

It is usual to call the deciduous types "azaleas"  and some of the evergreen types sold as houseplants, too.... but they are all Rhododendrons.

(I didn't tell you about the spelling, cos I was debating  drawing Susan S' attention to it, so she could tell you...... )