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(Written March, 2012 and placed on the Rhodo Chat room) For a long time now I have been interested in using Jean Marie in hybridizing East Coast plants. Jean Marie has been the parent of many special West Coast hybrids:…
An old, dear friend of mine, Sid Burns, taught me how to make my own rhododendron rooting hormone. I normally use a 2% IBA hormone and these instructions are for that concentration. On some cultivars I use 1% and on…
ORNAMENTALITY (Originally published in the ARS NY Chapter Newsletter around 1990. It is somewhat dated.) Ornamentality is what we are looking for, or at least should be looking for as rhododendron hybridizers. Not just new rhododendrons, ones that are tough,…
The Ironclad Rhododendrons Lest we forget—the Past is Prelude RICHARD MURCOTT the New York Chapter Published in the NY Chapter newsletter about 1990. Updated 3 We now hear very little about a group of hybrid rhododendrons that, when I started…
Further regarding Whitestone: I have attached five pictures: Whitestone itself (in case you are not familiar with it), Whitestone open pollinated, Whitestone x (Dumper Yellow x Phipps 32), Whitestone x yakushimanum (not my cross) and Whitestone x Dexter’s Spice. Note the mauve color…
I have noticed in the past that many rhododendron enthusiasts have heard the words “polyploid”, “triploid” and “tetraploid” but are not really sure what the words mean and how the plants with this dscription came about. So here is an…
I recently returned from the Northeast Regional Conference held in New Jersey in November 2005. It was a terrific meeting with everything done beautifully. There are, though, some comments I’d like to make. The theme of the meeting, the “Species…
Written in September, 2010 This summer has been murder on Long Island (just outside of New York City). We started off with a very wet spring and the rhododendrons looked great, even though we didn’t have a great bud set…
Fifth Generation Glass White was in Sid Burns’ garden in 1965 and I don’t remember anything about it except it was white (I don’t remember anything about a blotch) and that Sid and Paul Vossburg valued it greatly. Paul developed…
The following article first appeared in the New York Chapter newsletter, The Rhodora, Winter 1995. Richard Murcott East Norwich, New York During the last 15 to 20 years, the nursery industry has changed the way they grow and ship rhododendrons.…