Rhododendron “ Valentine”I think that is it awful that even though one may be growing and amass plants for many years , that one can still stumble upon an total genus that few others are produce , and one that put up so many varieties and choices , and so it is with the Vireya section within the genus Rhododendron . Of the 900 species within Rhododendron , 300 are Vireyas .
These are tropic Rhododendrons , and must either be rise as sign plants where there are cold winter , or they must be grown in a icing free greenhouse , which is where we keep ours . Simply say , Vireyas like the same conditions athat any cool orchid would like , specifially , if you’re able to grow Pahiopedulums , the lady slipper orchids , then you would most in all probability have winner with Vireya . They prefer cool , damp , frost free conditions . Yet they can be grown on a windowsill , with a tray of pebble , in a room which remains cool or unheated most of the winter . Although commonly cognise as Vireya , theseRhododendron christianae from Papua New Guinea
aboriginal to the areas near and around Borneo and Papua New Guinea , Vireyas develop in the wild on shadow moist mountain slopes , where it remains moint , humid and relatively coolheaded most of the year , generally in the clouds and mist near the cloud line . This give you an good reading of what they wish in an surround . R. ‘ Tropic Glow’We flora ours in a special mix of fir tree barque and water retentive ground that one would really habituate for planting on a deck . The jackpot are relativelt small for the plants , which themselves are quite woody and branchy , with few leafage . The plants prend the summer out door in the open shade , where they recieve rains and nutrient from summer thundershowers , and are move back to the glasshouse at the first sign of the zodiac of icing , where they pass thier winter getting obscure occaisionally , and still never drying out . R. ‘ Saxon Glow’Flowers can come about at anytime , although I be given to get a respectable salvo of bloom after first move them to the outside , around now , in July , and then again , in OCtober , when we set off sustain the fall rains . The colors of the blossoms on these tropic rhododendrons is the grounds one collects them . With colors that sweep the spectrum throughout the warm compass of melon , red coral , fortunate mango tree and peachy pinks , they fill a opening which temperate Rhody ’s could never fill . try out collecting a few Vireyas and enjoy the discovery of something perhaps new to you .
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