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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Trees and Shrubs => Topic started by: Hilary on February 11, 2020, 08:23:49 AM

Title: Rhododendron
Post by: Hilary on February 11, 2020, 08:23:49 AM

Rhododendron x obtusum

A Rhododendron bush we saw flowering in Royal Botanic Garden Madrid at the beginning of April 2018

I despaired of coming across an article which mentions Rhododendron which I had already not ‘used’ then I came across this one.

MYCORRHIZAL PREPARATIONS
by THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN SOCIETY SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 64, April 2011
In the article I read

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“ However, the following acid-loving plants are not recommended for treatment: rhododendrons, azaleas, heathers, cranberries and blueberries”

Title: Re: Rododendron
Post by: Hilary on April 01, 2020, 06:02:18 AM

Since we are not going on our planned trip to Madrid, I will be posting yet more photos taken in the Royal Botanic Garden Madrid, April 2018

Rhododendron hippophaeoides ‘Inshriach’

Inshriach House is near the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.
I would have liked to find some interesting information about how this Rhododendron got its name but was not able to find anything

I was pleased to come across an article I had not ‘used’ before mentioning Rhododendron
ENCHANTED BY SERRALVES by Ann Semaan Beisch in
 THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 90, October 2017
There is a website for this garden

Title: Re: Rododendron
Post by: Charithea on April 01, 2020, 02:55:33 PM

They are such lovely flowers Hilary. I remember seeing  lots in Yorkshire years ago. They were most impressive.

Title: Re: Rhododendron
Post by: Alisdair on April 03, 2020, 10:21:45 AM

Hilary, Rhododendron hippophaeoides is flowering at the moment in our Sussex garden, a paler form than that one of yours in Madrid. And always flowers on bare branches for us.

Title: Re: Rhododendron
Post by: Hilary on April 03, 2020, 11:34:00 AM

I like the colour of the Rhododendron and the view of your garden

Title: Re: Rhododendron
Post by: Hilary on April 28, 2020, 07:22:08 AM

Rhododendron macrophyllum

Another Rhododendron in the Royal Botanic Garden Madrid, April 2018

Rhododendrons are mentioned in A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA. PART 2:
PRIVATE AND COMMUNITY GARDENS by Valerie Whittington
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 89, July 2017