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Variegated Rhododendron are an odd group. It is difficult to consider any of them as beautiful.
Even without flowers they are too complicated. I appreciate this one, but I couldn't claim to love it. It is a German selection of either R.ponticum or R.catawbiense (opinion is divided and I couldn't care less). Currently growing under a Eucalyptus, I think it will have to be found a new space shortly. Up it came, trundled up the garden in a wheelbarrow and plonked in where the plan dictated (if you were to suggest that the plan is determined by how far up the hill I am prepared to push a wheelbarrow you would not be far wrong). It has established and flowered without a hitch. Oregon State University Dept of Horticulture say: "Developed (found?) by Dietrich G. Hobbie,Westerstede/Linswege, Germany, 1955. Its origin is unclear, it is variously reported as a chance seedling or sport of either R. catawbiense or R. ponticum. |
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| 19th June 2011 | ||
