Rhododendron... every garden should have some

[Maggi Young]

How do I get to:
http://www.glendoick.com/content.php?page=redfoliage

Both clicking and 'copy and paste' redirects me to Glendoick.com

Good question, Wallace!   It seems there have been recent changes to the Glendoick website... it  used to be more easy to navigate and I remember a 'red-foliage section' in the past but it seems impossible to find now. 

Perhaps an emailed query to them would get help?

[Maggi Young]

'Everred' and  'Wine and Roses' are two of the red leaved types, as well as Red Elizabeth Lockhart and Red Walloper, if I recall, tho' how many of these are listed meantime I don't know.   

[johnw]

The Enkianthus campanulatus are having a bumper crop of flowers this year. This one was bought as 'Red Bells' but I see no difference from straight campanulatus.

Also Starling's Menzesia 'Spring Morn'.

johnw

[johnw]

Pix 1 & 2 Another superb Rhododendron species to grow is R. fortunei.  Very big flowers with a superb fragrance, long lasting as well. Hardy where winters are not too hard.

Pix 3  A hardier sub is a locally developed hybrid nad not quite so fragrant, fortunei x smirnowii, called 'Bellefontaine'.  We were surprised to see it offered in Germany.

Both get monsterously big in time = more fragrance.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

we are also enjoying fortunei and smirnowii at the moment ...... so I am interested to see your Canadian hybrid, which is very pretty, in a pink fashion........I doubt I would have been able to discern the smirnowii connection for the look of it, but the hardiness gene will be very helpful and lead to commercial success .....well, it's already gone to Germany so the proof is there.....

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Gorgeous flowers John !! 

[Ragged Robin]

Your garden must smell heavenly, John, what a great time of year, anymore Rhodendrons flowering?

[Diane Whitehead]

At the other end of the country from John, Rhododendron occidentale
is currently scenting the air all around, just like it does down in the
Siskiyous (southern Oregon, northern California).

I grew these from seed.  The pink one is way over my head, but the
white one is much shorter.

[birck]

I try to wait and see what happened with my cinnabarinums.
And it paid off.
In 08 this cinnabarinum roylei lost 90% of foliage.
In 09 was not looking very well but hanging on.
Then, this spring every thing was change, looking very well
and put on "some" flowers.
After a winter with 70 days of at least one foot of snow cover
and 90 days of nightfrost.
jens   

[Diane Whitehead]

Wonderful!  I noticed recently that some plants have managed to
overcome the diseases that afflicted them.  Not just rhododendrons
with powdery mildew, either.  Dogwoods seem to have recovered
from anthracnose.  About 20 years after I thought it was dead, a
Cornus florida has revealed itself by flowering.

Crest seems healthier this year, which is good because I haven't
found another with such luminous yellow flowers.

Unfortunately, all of my cinnabarinums died long ago. This year  I looked
for seeds of them on seedlists, thinking that if I sow enough, some seedlings
might have genes for resistance.  However, there were none on the
ARS seedlist.

[Graham Catlow]

Every garden should indeed have some and here are some of mine 

Rhododendron 'Creamy Chiffon'
R. occidentale
R. 'Persil'
R 'Wren'
A pair of R. 'Madame van Hecke'

Graham

[Graham Catlow]

And some more!

R. myrtilloides
R. campylogynum - should have a name but I have lost the label.
R. 'Egret'
R. 'Arctic Tern'
Un-named???
Another un-named but I'm sure this is from Glendoik and I have lost the label. It looks quite blue in the photo but is really purple. Anyone have any ideas (Magggi???).

Graham

[Maggi Young]

Lovley selection, Graham.

edited.......
Your  myrtilloides is another sort of  campylogynum, posibly ssp. charopeum, your campylogynum isn't that... it's a calostrotum of some sort...
I don't know the name of the pink azalea probably either Lemur or Wombat..... and the last one could be one of several...maybe Intrifast..... I'll try to get my brain in gear, or John might ride to the rescue  
Listening to the Beechgrove Potting Shed live from Gardening Scotland at the minute!!

[Graham Catlow]

Lovley selection, Graham.

edited.......
Your  myrtilloides is another sort of  campylogynum, posibly ssp. charopeum, your campylogynum isn't that... it's a calostrotum of some sort...
I don't know the name of the pink azalea probably either Lemur or Wombat..... and the last one could be one of several...maybe Intrifast..... I'll try to get my brain in gear, or John might ride to the rescue  
Listening to the Beechgrove Potting Shed live from Gardening Scotland at the minute!!

Hmmmm Thanks Maggi.
What a mix up!!!!!
I have to admit I lost the labels on what I though were myrtilloides and campylogynum and in my investigations 'best guessed' them, and thought I recognised the names but apparently not.
I will await your brain getting into gear or John on his trusty steed 

Graham

[Graham Catlow]

Hi again,

I forgot to add this one to the last two groups. I should perhaps now put this into the 'plants for ID now as I got some of the others wrong. However, I haven't put a name to this one just in case I get it wrong also, and I've added a couple of close ups.
Maggi I feel sure you will know this.

Rhodo white; unsure of the name

Graham