Now Blooming – Late Spring


PEAK BLOOM in the Garden NOW

We are at PEAK BLOOM! Everywhere you turn in the Garden is another beautiful vignette, or wide swath of color! “Where the wild things grow” is the tag line for the RSBG because we are all about the wild i.e. species rhododendrons.

Loads of tropical and subtropical rhododendrons and companion plants are responding to our lengthening days and are flowering in the sheltered conditions of the Rutherford Conservatory. In addition to the plants in the photos below, Rhododendron magnificum and Agapetes smithiana are blooming. It’s a great time to visit and enjoy these tropical beauties!

There’s lots to see in the Garden too!

Rhododendrons – Over 150 species in bloom NOW, this is just a sampling!

FROM CHINA FROM THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS
calophytum var. openshawianum – white and pink forms arboreum – bright pink
coelicum – deep red argipeplum – red
coeloneuron – bright pink barbatum – red
cyanocarpum – white beanianum – watermelon pink
electeum – white, yellow and pink forms ciliatum – white flushed pink
hunnewellianum – white with pink tips erosum – red
lutescens – yellow faucium – pink
moupinense – white and pink forms hirtipes – pink
oreodoxa var. fargesii – rose lanigerum – pink and rose forms
pachytrichum – bright pink leucaspis – white
praestans – pink principis – pink
praevernum – pale pink sherriffii – deep waxy red
ririei – smoky lavender
rothschildii – pink FROM KOREA
strigillosum – scarlet red mucronulatum – pink
sutchuenense – pink
FROM SIBERIA
FROM JAPAN dauricum – pink
lapponicum – pink

 

Companion plants

Camellia ‘Waterlily’
Crocus species
Helleborus – many varieties throughout the Garden
Hepatica nobilis
Narcissus cyclamineus
Primula denticulata
Prunus ‘Accolade’
Several Corylopsis (Winter-Hazel) species
Ypsilandra thibetica