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.

 Sensibly planted in the shade.
The Last of the Rhododendrons

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.

 Happily growing in the Dog Path Garden.
Yellow Rhododendron

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!

 Flowering in the Dog-Path Garden by one of my new paths.
Early White Rhododendron

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

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

 Near a red Maple and a variegated Weigela.
Red Rhododendron in the Dog-Path Garden