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A story of beauty, tempestuous weather and tragedy. All in a season’s growth for an otherwise hardy stalwart of the living plant collection. Rhododendron lanigerum (see 2/2/2009 for…
Braw; a late 16th century Scottish word, a variant of brave. Nowadays meaning fine, excellent, attractive. Words that describe the developing flower buds of Rhododendron lanigerum. At this…
The International Rhododendron Conference is taking place from 7 – 11 May 2008 at the Garden. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh grows and has long been involved with…
Rhododendron praevurnum is a huge evergreen species reaching 4 metres across and 3 metres high and is characterised by the distinctive blotch of wine-red colour on the inner…
Rhododendron auriculatum: A native to Central China, growing in F15, a focal position at the top of the stove brae. Large trusses of pure white flowers with a…
Rhododendron maddenii ssp. crassum Growing and flowering profusely in the east gate lodge garden, a sheltered microclimate. Collected by Keith Rushforth in 1995, Found in the Himalayas to…
A selection of Rhododendron from the sub section Ponticum: Rhododendron catawbiense: a mass of plants growing in the copse covered in purple flowers. Inside on the top petal…
Aquilegia formosa: W.N.America. Reflexed red petals form 5 perfect circles with yellow throat, extended flower parts Paeonia mascula ssp. russi: Big pink blousy blooms Ceanothus dentatus: mass of…
The alpine wall and scree in the rock garden are full of colour: Hypericum cerastioides, carpet of yellow with spicy scent exuding from the plant View from the…
Morea spathulata, a Hilliard and Burtt collection from Temperate South Africa in 1976. Bright yellow blooms on strong stems, to 1metre Ceanothus sorediatus, USA, California, corner of lecture…
Rhododendron ‘Loderi’ and Rhododendron ‘Loderi King George’: A 1926 introduced hybrid between R. fortunei x griffithianum. These are both from the Leonardslee crosses of the early 1900’s by…
Exochorda x macrantha on the north side of the pond. Spikes of white flowers Sophora microphylla A New Zealand legume, towering out of the sunken courtyard North of…
Lathraea clandestina – a parasitic perennial on the roots of Salix. Purple flowers, native to SW Europe Pulsatilla sp. through the Rock Garden and on the alpine wall…
Trio of Magnolia cylindrica on the Chinese Hillside and two M. kobus at the view point Prunus ‘Spire’ on the Birch Lawn, centre road Lysichiton americanus – yellow…
The magnolias continue to impress. The following three white-flowered species are on the east side of the Copse: M. stellata from Japan, Honshu M. denudata from Eastern China…
M. campbellii: large pink flowers at the top of the tree, H10 M. ‘Charles Raffill’: an improved hybrid between M. campbellii and M. campbellii ssp mollicomata, F30 M….
Recommend the view to the Pentlands, with a dusting of snow and clear sky the hills stand out today Forsythia x intermedia ‘Lynwood’, D44 Mahonia polyodonta, SBEC collection,…
Rhododendron x praecox: various locations, will continue to bloom providing early morning sun occurs and there is no frost Rhododendron nobleanum, F05 Primula marginata, alpine wall
Crocus cultivars at the East Ggate and on the slope down from the Terrace Café Camellia species from an AGS trip, R24 Prunus hirtipes, south-west quarter of the…