GETTING INSPIRED BY RHODODENDRONS: FINDING FACTS AND MEETING THE FAITHFUL

The Boston Globe | April 16, 2000| | Copyright

Spring gathers momentum. Snowdrops then crocus, daffodils then magnolias, on it rolls to those heady days of lilacs and rhododendrons.

Lilacs I grow. They offer beauty and scent for a few weeks, then recede into the background with their unremarkable foliage.

Rhododendrons I have just dabbled in (mostly trying to remember to whack the big unknown hybrid outside the living room so we can see out the window - the classic experience of most homeowners with rhododendrons).

But there is more, and I and you are remiss if we don't get off our duffs and find room to grow some of the more than 800 ...

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