Author Topic: Rhododendron 2011 (Read 21061 times)

Onion · « **Reply #75 on:** May 07, 2011, 06:49:59 PM »

John,

very fine species of R. mucronulatum. The ones I know are all less flowering species with a bad habit.

johnw · « **Reply #76 on:** May 07, 2011, 08:10:02 PM »

Uli - This mucronulatum was very bushy and heavy flowering until the Nootka shaded it badly. It is now filling out slowly with a mass of shoots at the base. Actually this is rather sparse bloom for it normally. This was the first rhodo I bought in the mid-70's along with kaempferi and PJM and is now 3-4m high. I can self it if you'd like seed. In fact I was going to cross it with the dwarf pink dauricum v. nanum Compactum Roseum too.

I saw the white form at our sale today and only a few sold. Have to pick one up.

johnw

johnw · « **Reply #77 on:** May 07, 2011, 10:40:37 PM »

Bud set on Spellbinder, they're huge. And the pink Pieris japonica 'Shojo'.

johnw

Maggi Young · « **Reply #78 on:** May 08, 2011, 12:27:36 PM »

That pink Pieris is showy.

Graham Catlow · « **Reply #79 on:** May 08, 2011, 06:51:03 PM »

Some recent ones from me.

Rhododendron Wine and Roses that has finished now.
'Creamy Chiffon' and 'Arctic Tern'
Azalea 'Persil'
Azalea 'Purpur Traum'

TC · « **Reply #80 on:** May 08, 2011, 09:37:47 PM »

It is interesting to see Persil flowering so well. I had this one 30 years ago and it refused to grow. It was about 2 feet high when I got it and it flowered quite well but refused to get any bigger. After 10 years I chucked it out. Then a few years ago I was reading Cox's catalogue and it said that Persil did not do well in the West of Scotland. I could have saved myself some grief if I had known that at the time I planted it. !

Onion · « **Reply #81 on:** May 10, 2011, 08:51:33 PM »

Quote from: johnw on May 07, 2011, 08:10:02 PM

Uli - This mucronulatum was very bushy and heavy flowering until the Nootka shaded it badly. It is now filling out slowly with a mass of shoots at the base. Actually this is rather sparse bloom for it normally. This was the first rhodo I bought in the mid-70's along with kaempferi and PJM and is now 3-4m high. I can self it if you'd like seed. In fact I was going to cross it with the dwarf pink dauricum v. nanum Compactum Roseum too.

I saw the white form at our sale today and only a few sold. Have to pick one up.

johnw

Thanks John for the offer. But the flowers of R. mucornulatum a killed by the frost in 9 of 10 years.
So it is better to have Mezitt-cultivars here. The are good growers and flower very well here.

johnw · « **Reply #82 on:** May 10, 2011, 10:49:14 PM »

Uli - I was very surpised to hear you only flower mucronulatum 1 out of 10 years. I got this mucronulatum in about 1974 and it has never once been frosted, not even in the memorable freeze of April 1981 when it was several weeks ahead.

A few rhododendrons in flower here.

Does anyone know the name of the last one which is weel ahead of Taurus & Grace Seabrook but blooming with fargesii? It has a tiny red blotch dead centre.

When will these torrential rain stop? Low pressure system stalled south of Halifax. We will soon throw out the 5cm rain guage and use a 160L drum instead.

johnw

thomsonii L&S DSCN0680.JPG.jpg
rex Berkley x rex Quartz DSCN0661.JPG.jpg
Goldstrike DSCN0651.JPG.jpg
fulvum or fulvoides DSCN0672.JPG.jpg
fargesii DSCN0646.JPG.jpg
DSCN0741

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arisaema · « **Reply #83 on:** May 11, 2011, 08:43:53 AM »

Oh my, that Rh fargesii is stunning!

David Nicholson · « **Reply #84 on:** May 11, 2011, 09:37:08 AM »

You have some lovely stuff John.

Hoy · « **Reply #85 on:** May 11, 2011, 09:53:26 AM »

John, I can only quote David!

Here are one of my plants in flower now, Rh cinnabarinum xanthocodon

Hoy · « **Reply #86 on:** May 11, 2011, 09:36:37 PM »

And some more.

The first is 'Lem's Monarch'. A very handsome plant.

The second I thought was named 'Moonshine Girl' but I can't verify it.

The third is unnamed - I have forgotten it (and I loose the tags).

ian mcenery · « **Reply #87 on:** May 16, 2011, 11:09:07 PM »

Quote from: johnw on May 10, 2011, 10:49:14 PM

Uli - I was very surpised to hear you only flower mucronulatum 1 out of 10 years. I got this mucronulatum in about 1974 and it has never once been frosted, not even in the memorable freeze of April 1981 when it was several weeks ahead.

A few rhododendrons in flower here.

Does anyone know the name of the last one which is weel ahead of Taurus & Grace Seabrook but blooming with fargesii? It has a tiny red blotch dead centre.

When will these torrential rain stop? Low pressure system stalled south of Halifax. We will soon throw out the 5cm rain guage and use a 160L drum instead.

johnw

thomsonii L&S DSCN0680.JPG.jpg
rex Berkley x rex Quartz DSCN0661.JPG.jpg
Goldstrike DSCN0651.JPG.jpg
fulvum or fulvoides DSCN0672.JPG.jpg
fargesii DSCN0646.JPG.jpg
DSCN0741 ?.jpg

Looks like Cynthia to me

Knud · « **Reply #88 on:** May 16, 2011, 11:09:47 PM »

I have enjoyed all the beautiful picures on these rhododendron pages, - thank you all. My little contribution is a North-American threesome, first R. tomentosum v. subarcticum, second R. canadense, and third R. vaseyi. The last two were grown from seed 12-14 years ago, seeds from Gardens North, I think. They must have liked the cold winter we had, they have never bloomed so well before.

Knud

johnw · « **Reply #89 on:** May 17, 2011, 01:12:28 AM »

Quote from: Hoy on May 11, 2011, 09:36:37 PM

The third is unnamed - I have forgotten it (and I loose the tags).

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Hoy - I wonder if this might be Horizon Monarch.

johnw

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