#Rhododendron "Yaku Princess"🎌
This is another garden dazzler (I highly recommend this one) with Japanese species yakushimanum in its parentage. Bright Barbie pink florets, fully open to pure white! April 24, 2024
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#Rhododendron "Sassy"
Caught her during a brief late evening burst of sunlight, on an otherwise overcast day.
Photo taken in the front garden. April 23, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "Flaming Star"
This show-off is in my front garden where everyone walking or driving by can gawk. 😂
Photo taken April 25, 2024.
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"White English Bluebells"
These petite sweeties are actually albino, rendering them white. They are a protected flower in the UK. 🙄In my yard, they are invasive and spread like wildfire.
Photo taken April 21, 2024, by my mailbox.
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#Rhododendron "Kiwi Magic"
This New Zealand hybrid in gorgeous! Gobs of luscious long-lasting flowers, every spring.
Photo taken April 24, 2024, in my inner back yard garden.
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#Rhododendron "Baden Baden"
This dwarf cutie has has deep red flowers, and deep green leaves. it grows wider than taller, and is attractive in any garden setting. Photo taken April 25, 2024, in my front yard garden.
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"Hino Crimson Azalea" 🎏
This hybrid, which is covered with small crimson flowers, comes from Kurume, Japan. It is a legacy plant, likely planted by the former owner in the early 1980s.
Photo taken April 24, 2024, by my back yard driveway.
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"My Private Volcano"
When I first moved to San Francisco, my new coworkers mistakenly believe that Mount Rainier was named after one of my ancestors (my family name is extremely similar).
Photo taken September 28, 2018 from Point Ruston.
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" #Bonsai Pear Tree"
Photo taken April 12, 2018, at the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington.
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A single flower, so far. Been ill since I took that picture so maybe there are more now. #signsofspring
" #Bonsai Apple Tree"
Photo taken April 10, 2024, at the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington.
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#Bonsai
Photo taken April 8, 2016, at the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington.
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#Rhododendron "Pretty Baby"
This one always recalls the great song standard, which was popular from the rag time era, through the 1950s.
Photos taken April 9-10 2024, in my backyard garden.
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#Rhododendron "Flaming Star"
She is blooming earlier than usual this year, with her calypso pinwheel pattern.
I planted her where everyone who passes by can see her. 👀
Shot on April 6, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "Top Banana"
Being the first bright yellow rhododendron of spring, makes this a unique and most welcome addition to any garden. I planted her where everyone who passes by can see her. 👀
Shot on April 2, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "Malahat"
This early spring treasure has big fat ball trusses made up of bright red bell shaped flowers. I planted her where I see the blooms every morning when I open my bedroom blinds. Shot on April 2, 2024. 1/x
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"The Dillodaff Twins"
April 8, 2024, from my front walkway.
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"Midnight's Red Tulip"
Shot at midnight using a fill flash, as I was going to bed, off my front porch. April 3, 2024.
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"Midnight's Red Tulip"
Shot at midnight as I was going to bed off my front porch, on April 3, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "Scintillation"
This late spring blooming crown jewel came with my home. Taken on June 2, 2011, in golden evening light. It is now 16 feet tall and reaches up to my kitchen corner window sink.
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#Rhododendron "Lord Roberts"
Taken in the bright early evening summer light on June 4, 2011. This super late bloomer is planted by my mail box along the front sidewalk.
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'Follow the Pink Road'
June 4, 2011. This pink "Rosebud" Azalea highway, leads you to my front door.
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"Cherry Baby"
Photos taken April 15, 2010, while on a walk in my neighborhood.
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#Rhododendron "Pretty Baby"
This one is perfectly named. True Barbie pink!
Photo taken April 4, 2024 in my backyard garden.
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#Bonsai
Photo taken April 8, 2016, at the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington.
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#Rhododendron unknown species
Photo taken April 8, 2016, at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden in Federal Way, Washington.
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#Rhododendron unknown species
Photo taken April 8, 2016, at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden in Federal Way, Washington.
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#Rhododendron unknown species
Photo taken April 8, 2016, at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden in Federal Way, Washington.
🧐Web site rhodygarden.org
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#Rhododendron "niveum"
Rhododendron niveum is native to northeastern India, Bhutan, and southern Tibet in China, where it grows at altitudes of 2,600–3,500 m (8,500–11,500 ft). Photo taken April 8, 2016, at the Rhododendron Species 1/x
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#Rhododendron "Patty Bee"
One of the "Bee" family of hybrids. They grow very slowly and remain très petit. Delicate palest of yellow and cream.
Photo taken April 6, 2024 in my front garden. I have a second one in the back yard.
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"Lollypop"
It is opening!
Photo taken April 6, 2024, in the tulip garden.
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🤍"The Return of the White Emperor"🤍
Taken before sundown tonight in the tulip bed. April 6, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "Taurus" 👑
This one (brother sibling to Grace Seabrook) is the undisputed king of early spring. Red buds open to large trusses of "Slam on the Brakes" RED, RED, RED.
Photos taken April 6, 2024, in my inner back yard garden.
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#Rhododendron "Top Banana"
This one is a replacement that I planted last October, for the one that perished due to lack last fall. This one of the earliest "yellow" ones.
Photo taken April 6, 2024, in my front yard garden.
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#Rhododendron "Grace Seabrook"
Photos taken in 2007 and 2009 from my front yard. This one is a sibling of the more famous Taurus, but does not have the🔴reddish buds like Taurus.
Notice the half moon visible in the foto on the right.
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