Rhododendrons 2017

[GordonT]

David, a local nursery brought in "Gartendirektor Glocker" the other year, and found that some had been mislabelled. Instead of Gartendirektor Glocker, they received "Gartendirektor Rieger", perhaps our favourite Rhododendron to date.

[GordonT]

A walk about the garden today with Rhododendrons in mind and i-phone in hand.

[johnw]

Rhododendron keiskei flowering with a bit of pink, not uncommon in springs like this with such very depressed temperatures.

john

[johnw]

At Jens Birck's this morning. 

138  Baby Dane
827  (Tessa Dane x yellow campylogynum)
844  heliolepis

'Baby Dane' is Jens' own evergreen azalea hybrid and the 'Tessa Dane' cross is his own lepidote hybrid. R. heliolepsis likely his own Chinese collection.

john

[johnw]

"Gartendirektor Rieger"

Gordon

Odd a local nursery would be bringing Glocker in as it's not really suited to most of the province.  Nevertheless Rieger is very easy to root and one of the fastest.  It is the most compatible for grafting the likes of the difficult ones - the Taliensia spp. and yellows.  Jens has used this extensively with the gothic window graft.

john

[Roma]

Deciduous azaleas and evergreen japanese azalea - Rhododendron 'Rosebud'

[David Nicholson]

Cracking display Roma.

[David Nicholson]

David, a local nursery brought in "Gartendirektor Glocker" the other year, and found that some had been mislabelled. Instead of Gartendirektor Glocker, they received "Gartendirektor Rieger", perhaps our favourite Rhododendron to date.

Sorry Gordon, I missed your post. Yes, I do like your 'GR' (too many letters for me ) and I have to say that the flower colour and shape on 'GD' improved with age.

[johnw]

Another stunner from Jens in Copenhagen yesterday, pink R. campylogynum.

Rhodos here in Halifax are almost at peak and I'm hoping the cool weather continues as Société des rhododendrons du Québec are here for a tour on Sunday.

john

[johnw]

From Jens Birck's Copenhagen garden this morning, the first two a surprise as they're two of my own hybrids  - 1. 'Scotian Rosebud', 2. 'Scotian Breeze' and lastly 3. a very good R. thayerianum with R. heliopis to its right.

johnw - cloudy, rains at times torrential - presently +11.5, yesterday we were in full summer mode at 23c.

[johnw]

I was at a friend's in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia yesterday. The heat was an insufferable 30.5c but spied two shockers.

1. a rather large R. pronum

2. a R. proteoides apparently with a good set of seed

A hot drive home but the temp plunged to 9c overnight.

johnw - 15.5c & sunny.

[johnralphcarpenter]

A very late one here, Rhododendron dichroanthum subsp. apodectum.

[ian mcdonald]

Dundock gardens at Coldstream should have a good display now, unless it is already finished.

[johnw]

A few pix from Jens in Copenhagen yesterday.

Rhododendron 'Lem's Stormcloud' x rex  with 30cm of new growth,  too big for his garden but he says he wants to see if the red of Stormcloud is inheritable.

a self-seeded R. rex

R. 'Scotian Rosebud'

john

[ashley]

Here's an interesting article from Kew on rhododendron grayanotoxins & 'mad honey'.