Dog-Path Garden Rhododendrons

The Moosey Rhododendron Festival continues into late spring as more new rhododendrons start to flower. In the middle of the Dog-Path Garden a few of these colourful shrubs shelter, snug underneath the limbed-up Pittosporum trees.

The soil in this garden is very good quality, and the shrubs planted here are really thriving. Since the trees were pruned I can see the Dog-Path Garden rhododendrons from the house-side of the water race. In early years I missed some flowering altogether.

In the spring of 2004 I faithfully photographed all ther Dog-Path rhododendrons in flower - it’s a pity that I didn't find any plant labels! The reason was that they'd been anonymously abandoned in the nursery bargain bin. Honestly!

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!

Update - 2010

Apart from the yellow and white rhododendrons in the photographs, plus an early scarlet and a beauty called Blue Jay, no more rhododendrons have arrived to grace this garden. Pity - I'm sure there's space for more...