Sunday 17 May 2015

The Photographic Gardening Diary: Rhododendron and Azalea

When the spring flowers and Helleborus have gone, Rhododendrons take over. All year round they build a useful, quiet dark green backbone to other plants, but in May and June they - together with Azaleas - have their heyday. They start in March with the early Rhododendron praecox, followed by Rhododendron impeditum in violet-blue. 



At the beginning of May the white Rhododendron "Cunningham's White" is dominant, with yellow markings in its face, followed by every other colour, yellow, orange, reds and pinks ...


                                         yellow Rhododendron luteum, the only one with a strong sweet scent


                                                                              opening azalea...

...with a visitor ....












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