Hi Jim: As per collections Don Craig who was the Director of Agriculture Canada Research Program for ornamental plants at Kentville, NS 25 years ago has a...
Jim, Clifton knew a lot of people in the green trade and at various arboretia, including Arnold Arboretum and perhaps Tyler too. He also knew nurserymen in...
Hello - I have 3 azaleas whose leaves are turning brown & dropping off. They are in a well -drained bed, but I have been hand watering this bed daily due to...
Rich Simmons
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Jul 1, 2008 1:39 pm
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Hi Rich, Watering daily sounds like too much water to me. Water thoroughly but not frequently. I'd also stop with the peat moss dressing. Peat moss makes a...
The Exbury Sun Charriot and the azalea Yellow Cloud which is listed as a Knaphill in Fred Galle's book but is really a hybrid by Don Hyatt a member of this...
Bruce, While your 'Sun Chariot' is very nice, it might not be 'Sun Chariot' - see http://www.pbase.com/azaleasociety/sunchariot for a bunch of pictures of what...
I have grown White Throat for years. It does not have bronze foliage. I doubt Cecile descended from Whitethroat. Harold Greer ________________________________...
Jim: We're just leaving mid and moving into late quickly with a bit of heat that we're having. In North American species: R. arborescens buds are expanding and...
Hi Bob: I will be the first to admit that 'label creep' is possible. This bed of 20+ azaleas came from an operation that was run by a girl who attended a local...
Bruce, Bob, et al, Before Bruce falls on his sword, it might be useful to remind the assembled multitude that there is usually acceptable variability in ...
Bruce Some History 1) Sally and I have for several years been attempting to cross good deciduous azaleas onto each other with the goal of producing late season...
Bruce For whatever reason our late bloomers are earlier this year than ever before. We started off the season later than the norm and remained that way for...
John: Thanks for the summary, a good read. Here' a plant of the reverse cross to your atlanticum X calendulaceum. The picture is a few years old; plant is much...
John: As of this morning and brachycarpum v. Tigerstedii and Red River are exactly 2 weeks earlier than 2007 bloom. R. maximum, Russell Harmon, Maximum Roseum...
Bruce We have not been successful enough at growing on the seedlings to know whether D X T produces fertile offspring. It takes us longer than 8 years to bloom...
Bruce Unless the winter has caused bud damage, I see very little evidence that the differences in bloom time from year to year are effected by anything but...
Bruce I want to make clear I have no knowledge of what a viable T X D or a D X T cross will normally do as parent. I will be happy knowing the answer to what...
With all the recent interest in polyploidy, I would like to recommend the article that Mike reported. Most of the papers that I have read, have determined...
Does anyone on this forum have access to R. colemanii pollen they would be willing to send to Salem, NH? I lack a local source of pollen for the following...
John--- I have eastmanii blooming right now. How do I send the pollen? Paul Lightfoot E. central Indiana ________________________________ From:...
Lightfoot, Paul
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Jul 2, 2008 4:39 pm
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Paul I collect it in a drug capsule and then place the capsule in a drug bottle than has dried milk in it. Keep the pollen in the frig until shipment. I know...
John: Collection: I have a few suggestions but will put forward at a later time; I wouldn't want this thread to become intimidating to Paul, which it might....
John, I cut a black shoe lace into pieces that will fit into a capsule. The cheapest thin shoe lace is the one that works best. Rub one end of each piece of...
Bruce, I would suggest that your diploid cumberlandense X tetraploid luteum is pure cumberlandense, no luteum involved, Your atlanticum X calendulaceum, both...
Mike In the past 4 years only cumberlandense has produced a normal seed pod when crossed with a species of a different ploidy. It has done this at least 3...
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