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Robert - The lutescens x dendrocharis is a remarkable colour. Do the flowers have a white exterior base as so many dendrocharis hybrids do?johnw
John, your edgeworthii hybrid looks simply amazing! You've made all the edgeworthii/Maddenia fans from colder climates giddy by posting its photos (it should be much hardier than edgeworthii itself, ain't it?). Hope it will somehow make its way over the pond (maybe through Glendoick?).
Robert - I meant the spinuliferum seems to produce white based flowers in great numbers. R. dendrocharis seems to be a very good parent. It always seems to give fine foliage. Here's one of my 'Cheju' x dendrocharis.johnw
How big are the ochraceum trusses? I saw one of the very first trusses to flower in the west circa 2000 at Glendoick. The truss was quite small but ever so red; it was in a greenhouse and in a pot.johnw
Robert - I can't tell you red Barry S.'s sopinuliferum is but he is one of the five best rhododendron eyes in the UK so that's enough for me.Glendoick was working on red lepidotes years ago and at that time told me leaf-spotting seemed to be linked to red. They are likely to have made great headway since those bygone days.Here are a couple of tantalizngly close-to-red hybrids from Japan again, very far out crosses. The foliage looks remarkably clean.Scarlet Wonder x dauricumCarmen x dauricum or the reversejohnw