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| Rhododendron augustinii 'Marion MacDonnell' |
Spring in Vancouver arrives with all those predictable
photographs of cherry blossoms, camellias (usually misspelt with one l) and
about magnolia bushes (which are in reality trees) and are some of the oldest
flowering trees in our planet.
Little is ever mentioned about those dependable and mostly
healthy rhododendrons. In our garden, the first botanical entity to flower besides
the bulbs is my lovely species rhododendron, Rhododendron
racemosum. Today my scan is of the plant about a week past its
prime. The second image is from two years ago in its prime.
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| Rhododendrum racemosum |
The other rhododendron in bloom right now is Rhododenron
augustinii ‘Marion MacDonnell’ which is
almost a startling blue.
Alas we are not in our old Athlone house anymore where
Rhododenron luteum would be not quite
about to flower with its extremely fragrant yellow blooms.
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| Rhododendron racemosum |
