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RHODODENDRON:

Below is a rhododendron picture I took the spring of 2008 by an old barn in our area.

I planted two or three small ones in front of where we live now, but the deer killed all of them. We actually had way more

deer at the old house but they never once nibbled a rhododendron so this was unexpected for me here.

Below are pictures fro my old garden. The first one is the top of one of the two very old rhodies that were there when we moved

in in 1989.

I had planted this red one, a Vulcan, where we lived from 86-89 and was able to bring it when we moved. As it got bigger, it kind of grew up

into one of the old rhodies, but that was fine with me.

Below are three sets of pictures. The ones on the left (if your screen is wide enough) show how it looked when I lived there and the

ones on the right show how it looked immediately after I left in 2008. The light pink in the top left picture is a streamer from my huge

musk rose that grew out and into the chestnut tree. I had that chestnut tree in a pot for many years before I put it in the ground and

carried it from house to house when we moved, but as you can see, it was too big to move again. It had finally started blooming in

2007. At least it's still alive...for now. That was a huge bittersweet growing up the side of the porch. I planted that in the spring of '89.

The green at the bottom of the sunrays is part of my little laburnum tree. Be sure and look at the laburnum page.

I did keep this rhododendron along the walkway pruned so that I could walk under the arch of it, but it wasn't enough, obviously.

I liked the way the Vulcan made itself into a belt through the old rhodie. The colors didn't match, but, then, I never really cared about

such things.

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