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Conrad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:38 pm Posts: 429 Location: NE Ireland
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Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
This is its second year flowering and is currently buzzing with bees. Looking back I see that I got it in 2008, shifting it when we moved in January 2017, with a tiny rootball. It's now about 7ft high, those lovely leaves have decreased slightly in size but whether that's down to being moved or the advent of flowering I'm not sure. A lovely thing.
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Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:37 am |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
That's a great looking plant. Rhodo's go great with exotic gardening..big leaves,some pleated, make a nice mix.
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Mon Apr 30, 2018 4:23 pm |
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themes
Joined: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:42 am Posts: 2148 Location: birmingham, UK
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
You don't post enough. Such a great looking flower. When it's not in flower you have those fantastic leaves. Rex ssp fictolacteum has the most fantastic indumentum. I wish my garden was bigger as I want every sub section falconera and grandia going.
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Mo
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Tue May 01, 2018 12:00 am |
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Adam D
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:17 pm Posts: 1074 Location: Scotland
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
Good stuff Conrad!
I am still waiting for mine to flower.
I bought it in 2010 and it went in the ground in 2011.
The lady up at Glendoick said that I would have to wait 10 years for it to flower!
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Tue May 01, 2018 11:35 am |
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johnw
Joined: Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:37 pm Posts: 240 Location: Halifax, NS
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
Wonderful Conrad! A marvelous species.
One seed grown rex ssp. fictolacteum took 25 years to flower here. Another R. rex ssp. rex from RSBG I planted and it flowered 3 years later, why I know not.
We also like (first picture) Jens Birck's Great Dane, yak x rex which flowers young though much hardier than rex; it gets big in time.
R. calophytum in flower here just now, huge trusses (photos 2 & 3).
johnw - +9c, damp, overcast and about to rain.
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Tue May 01, 2018 4:13 pm |
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Conrad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:38 pm Posts: 429 Location: NE Ireland
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
The do indeed Stan, big leaves and spring flowers providing colour before many of the other exotics are even thinking about waking up. I know Mo, I know, I'm a very bad forum member. I think it might be my favourite Rhodo, it really has everything going for it, well scent would be nice but maybe that's asking too much. Maybe next year will be the one Adam There is an extreme measure you can take to initiate flowering in Rhododendrons but it's not for everyone, it takes nerves of steel!! A lovely selection there John, they just work on their own time scale don't they? It seems like there's no rhyme or reason to when they decide they're going to grace us with their flowers.
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Wed May 02, 2018 8:25 am |
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johnw
Joined: Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:37 pm Posts: 240 Location: Halifax, NS
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
Through the grapevine there are quite a few reports of cw seed grown rex budded & flowering on our coast for the very first time. Why that should be iss hard to fathom? It was a reasonable winter, a long extended autumn into mid December and no extended cold periods. As you say Conrad, they call the shots.
john 15c & sunny
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Wed May 02, 2018 7:16 pm |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
This is on the Hardy Palm Board. How could that not fit in a exotic plant garden with a tropical look? Any idea the ID? The post is a little past. http://i65.tinypic.com/iy0tvn.jpghttp://i63.tinypic.com/rk5zmg.jpg
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Wed May 02, 2018 9:45 pm |
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johnw
Joined: Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:37 pm Posts: 240 Location: Halifax, NS
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
Camellia japonica cw Daechong Do as seed by Philip McD has buds that survived the winter, they're starting to move. Has to be a first for coastal Nova Scotia.
john 17c, sunny, rain imminent.
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Wed May 02, 2018 10:55 pm |
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themes
Joined: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:42 am Posts: 2148 Location: birmingham, UK
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
Looks like macabeanum or basilicum, Stan
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Mo
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Wed May 02, 2018 11:49 pm |
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johnw
Joined: Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:37 pm Posts: 240 Location: Halifax, NS
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
I think basilicum should have winged petioles.
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Thu May 03, 2018 12:12 pm |
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themes
Joined: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:42 am Posts: 2148 Location: birmingham, UK
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8561&start=15 basilicum . The growing conditions in Stans link look drier . Just that coating of tomentum basilicum tends to have more often then not
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Mo
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Thu May 03, 2018 10:36 pm |
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johnw
Joined: Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:37 pm Posts: 240 Location: Halifax, NS
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
Here's a shot of Birck's basilicum and you can just see the wings on the petiole (lowest leaf fore centre) and the one to the left with 3 pistils on it..
johnw
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Sun May 06, 2018 12:39 pm |
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themes
Joined: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:42 am Posts: 2148 Location: birmingham, UK
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
_________________ Regards,
Mo
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Sun May 06, 2018 8:41 pm |
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Conrad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:38 pm Posts: 429 Location: NE Ireland
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Re: Rhododendron rex subsp. fictolacteum flowering
Rhododendon 'Lady Alice Fitzwilliam' is well underway now too, a beautifully scented hybrid. Edit: I've been reliably informed that it's actually edgeworthii X formosum and not edgeworthii X ciliatum.
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Tue May 08, 2018 10:21 am |
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