Rhododendron 2011

[ian mcenery]

Lovely garden Ian - looks more like a park !

Thanks Tom. The garden is not that big it is the selective use of the camera lens

[David Nicholson]

Some Rhododendron shots from a visit to Lanhydrock House and garden yesterday. Some shots of Magnolias are in the Trees in Parks and Gardens thread; some general garden shots in the Visits to Gardens thread, and maybe a couple of Daffs in the Daffs thread.

Rhododendron 'Luderi Venus'
R. 'Robert Keir'
Two flowers, one plant
A Rhodos that took my eye, and a close up of same
Another that took my eye

[David Nicholson]

More from Lanhydrock.

I don't have names for these but have simply classified them as 'Rhododendron vistas'

[David Nicholson]

More Rhododendron vistas:-

[christian pfalz]

hello, here a rhododendron wildform in a through, grows very well in full sun....anyone know his name ? his colour is creme/yellow

thanks
chris

[johnw]

Chris - It could very well be Rhododendron keiskei.  Seems a tad late for your area though.

johnw

[christian pfalz]

thanks john, many rhodos here are now in or begins to flower.....
cheers
chris

[Maggi Young]

Chris - It could very well be Rhododendron keiskei.  Seems a tad late for your area though.

johnw

Early for here.... so when I see the paeonias that Chris also has flowering now, then I'd bet on keiskei too... got that funny colouring at the leaf margins that it often has, too.  

[Lesley Cox]

Chris - It could very well be Rhododendron keiskei.  Seems a tad late for your area though.

johnw

I'd agree with John Chris, maybe the subspecies cordifolia which is smaller, tighter. Those leaves are very typical of the reddish winter foliage turning back to green.

[johnw]

Chris - It could very well be Rhododendron keiskei.  Seems a tad late for your area though.
johnw

I'd agree with John Chris, maybe the subspecies cordifolia which is smaller, tighter. Those leaves are very typical of the reddish winter foliage turning back to green.

Lesley - I suppose it might be too early to make a precise determination if Chris' keiskei is a young plant.  However you're probably quite right.  Your v. cordifolia is certainly the smallest I've seen.  The next size up would be Yaku Fairy which is also a v. cordifolia.  I have another here which is now about 1m wide x 35cm high after 33 years (which is YF x regular keiskei) and yet another which is over .75m high after about 10 years. The latter is borderline here while the others are extremely hardy.  One would presume the taller one is from a lower altitude.

johnw - blowing and pelting rain at 3c; lucky as others are getting sn.....

[Hoy]

Here are some of my rhodos that are in flower now.

R thomsonii and 'Jacksonii' in the woodland among other shrubs and trees.

   

R pentaphyllum - or is it something else?

[Pascal B]

R pentaphyllum - or is it something else?

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Maybe R. vaseyi? Although that generally has more dense clusters of flowers. Other related species I can think of is R. albrechtii but that has much darker flowers, the one I had in flower had almost unnatural deep cerise flowers. Pentaphyllum as I know it has the very characteristic red rimmed leaves, why do you think it is not that species?.

[johnw]

R pentaphyllum - or is it something else?

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Maybe R. vaseyi?

Blooming with thomsonii it might be a pale R. schlippenbachii.  These Japanese deciduous azalea species are a minefield for the identifier.  Photos here attached for comparison.

johnw

[Hoy]

Thanks for suggestions.

R pentaphyllum - or is it something else?

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Maybe R. vaseyi? Although that generally has more dense clusters of flowers. Other related species I can think of is R. albrechtii but that has much darker flowers, the one I had in flower had almost unnatural deep cerise flowers. Pentaphyllum as I know it has the very characteristic red rimmed leaves, why do you think it is not that species?.

It is definitely neither vaseyi nor albrechtii or schlippenbachii.

I have come to the conclusion that it is pentaphyllum, thinking of the leaves! Thanks for reminding me!

I

[Michael J Campbell]

Azalea Satan in my front garden.