Rhododendron... every garden should have some

[johnw]

Especially keen on that big red with the huge leaves Hoy!

Here Bridal Bouquet, another Pogonantha.


johnw

[Hoy]

Some lovely rhodos Trond, and looking very at home.
A new angle for the Norwegian Tourist Board?

Thanks ashley, I feel very much at home too -and I get a busload of "tourists" in 2 weeks

Especially keen on that big red with the huge leaves Hoy!

johnw

johnw, the leaves look very similar to calophytum or sutchuenense but the flowers don't! And it is much later.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Rhododendron rigidum, bought from Linn Botanic Garden, Argyll.

[ian mcenery]

Quite a collection you have Trond

Some cinnabarinum and types from me

cinnabarinum and close up

"cinnkeys" a hybrid between cinnabarinum and keysii and close up

Lady chamberlain

[johnw]

Hoy - Yes sutchuenense immediately came to mind but as you say the flowers, where on earth did they come from?

Today I almost drove down the coast 3.5 hours to see this flower.  I took this shot on the 21st of May and have been dying with curiosity ever since.  A friend is going by to take pictures and hopefully collect pollen.  The flower count is somewhere between 43-45 and I suspect lanigerum is the culprit.  First flowering as you may have guessed; I'm particularly keen on the bud scales.

johnw

[johnw]

My that Cinnkeys is spiffy Ian.

Here are a pair from last week.  I should send you cuttings of Sir Nigel in August.

johnw

[ian mcenery]

My that Cinnkeys is spiffy Ian.

Here are a pair from last week.  I should send you cuttings of Sir Nigel in August.

johnw

Thanks John Yes cinnkeys is nice and the flowers seem to last longer than most. I have too many rhodos -if you can have such a thing -and over the last couple of years I have made the situation worse by buying new ones  mostly species with interesting foliage. I am now looking at the plants wondering what will happen if the all grow well

[Hoy]

 Hi Ian, seems you have some yourself!

Here are some more flowering now.
Rh cinnabarinum, cinnabarinum xanthocodon, sherriffii cerasinum and 'Tree Creeper'. The last one grows in no soil but the moss on a great rock. Although the flowers of sherriffii cerasinum hang down and are partly hidden by the leaves I like the colour and the elegant hanging bells.
Sorry, sherriffii was wrong, it is cerasinum Kingdon-Ward 11011 'Coals of Fire'. I found the label

[johnralphcarpenter]

Rhododendron 'Ruby Hart', a good red, and Rhododendron spinuliferum, an oddity.

[Hoy]

Some more rhodos in my garden. Some are unnamed seedlings or I have lost the labels. Rh 'Karin' by the main door (and a hose just used for watering the pots).

[Hoy]

...and some more. My woodland is getting too crowded by the rhododendrons.

[Hoy]

...even more. The first picture shows the step by the garden entrance to the house. The next ones close-ups of the rhodos there.

[Hoy]

The last ones for now. Rh orbiculare - it is the last branch of a large shrub which died of unknown reasons. One of the best for all an all year show is Rh bureavii.

[johnw]

Trond  - Rhodo 1 could be wardii itself or what was once puralbum.

Can you take a look at this rhodo which I discovered on a campusa few weeks ago?  We think it may be Karin, it's a bit rosier than the photos show.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Certainly some wardii influence on Trond's  #1 unknown - but there is a lot of cream in the colour  if the pic is true to shade     My puralbum is just that - whiter than white.

John, Karin has a sister, Linda - just that bit more pink and looking very like the campus plant -  yours may be Linda......


So many lovely rhodos here- I hope it might be inspiring some of the rhodo-doubters