Yellow Rhododendron

The Moosey Rhododendron Festival continues into late spring as more new rhododendrons start to flower. This yellow shrub is sheltered in the middle of the Dog-Path Garden, underneath some limbed-up Pittosporum trees.

The soil in this garden is very good quality, and the shrubs planted here are really thriving. Several Pittosporums got the chop last year to make space. I like to see the Dog-Path Garden rhododendrons from the house-side of the water race (otherwise I might miss their flowering altogether, like I did last year).

This spring (in 2004) I've been faithfully photographing all my rhododendrons in flower - it’s a pity that I didn't find out their names when they first arrived! Trouble is that many plants (including this beauty) had been anonymously abandoned in the nursery bargain bin.

Actually I’m lucky that I have any surviving rhododendrons at all in the Moosey garden - I have been known to plant these majestic shrubs in ridiculously inappropriate locations. Enough said!