I'm So Excited!!

I was just out to pick up my daughter from a friends house, and on the way home we found a Rhododendron 'Graf Zepelin' put out with the trash!! It was still in it's gallon pot, with the store tags and its name tag with planting instructions and everything!! I don't know why anyone would throw it out, it looks healthy!! I can hardly wait to get it in the ground!!

Wow! Isn't that sumthin! Just can't figure people out sometimes.

Y'know, around here, Rhododendron are considered 'weeds'... GREAT find, though!

Darius, you just beat me to the punch on that one.

It always amuses me to hear people going so crazy about rhody's. Well, they're certainly welcome to come clear out some our rhody hells, ain't they.

The deal is, folks, that you have to take _all_ the plants in the patch, or none at all. Line forms to the left.

I have two Rodo's in my front garden, were then when we bought the house last year, they are planted in a concrete bunker, built by the previous owners!

They are going, going, gone this year. Hate them!! Everyone here on the West Coast thinks they are the best thing since sliced bread. As I also hate that mush they call sliced bread, these Rodos are gone this summer, to make way for my 'berm' to cover over the concrete bunker. Have not decided yet what to plant on the berm but one of my favourite plants is Californa Tree Poppy. Difficult to transplant, but will try.

Brook
If any of your rhody are fat and short, I'll do the digging! Must have trunks of 6+ dia., and no more than 3' tall. Make great bonsai!!

They come in all sizes, Tim,

But the deal is take 'em all or take none. But be fairly warned, we're talking about patches of rhody that are numbered in the multiple acres.

There's another problem. Many of these rhody hells end at a cliff edge. Which you can't see because the foliage is so thick. That first step is a doozy---2-300 foot drop, oft times.

Of course, it isn't the fall that gets you. It's the catastrophic negative acceleration at the bottom.

So I take it some of you do not want to come up north for our annual Rhody festival!

Roaring with laughter, Brook!

Dave

Oops!! Have a small lot, can't handle that many plants!

You got that right, Zanymuse.

Dave: While we're talking about native, as opposed to those pale domesticated plants, will you monitor the fire azeleas and keep us up to date when they are blooming? Appreciate it.