Garden Joltings: Re: your beautiful garden

» Marge_Talt - Re: your beautiful garden

In response to message posted by Gay_Klok:

Hi Gay again:-)

I really have no clue which rhodies my hedge are. Bought them off the back of a truck around 10 years or so ago. There are so many with that same lavenderish flower out there and the foliage isn't distinctive in any way. I somehow doubt they are R. ponticum. I have R. catawbiense, which is native to the mountains west of me and have often thought these might be one of the many cultivars of same, but that is pure conjecture.

You're right - the flower colors can vary quite a bit. I have them from deep red to champagne beige, but am lacking whites and yellows at this point. Some even come in blue..had a couple of those, but lost them..can't think of the species - they are the small ones with the small leaves.

I have never actually smelled skunk cabbage; might be that you have to crush the leaves for them to release their scent, but have read that they can live up to their name. Could also be the flower that smells as I think, like many aroids, they are pollinated by flies.

Be interested to find out what yours smell like and what part has a scent...if any.

-- posted by Marge_Talt