Re: Variegated Halls honeysuckle--now climates

Cindy, I believe the comparison point (rhododendrons and azaleas) was
illustrated by the great showing of evergreen azaleas on the east coast.  In
the same area, rhododendrons are perhaps not at their best.  Japan has
difficulty (in the lower areas where people live)growing rhododendrons that
can take the heat.  Perhaps a better way of looking at the notion is that a
great number of plants that we grow from China are not from the high heat
and humidity areas.  Japanese plants often are from areas with a climate
similar to Washington DC and on south. On the west coast, especially
northern California and the Pacific Northwest areas, rhododendrons really
come into their own.  English ivy can be a real pest here as the birds seed
it into the forested areas and the trees get covered with it.  It thrives
here.  Another plant that does well here is Astrantia.  It really needs our
cool summers.

> Now I'm very interested in this generalization about the climate in the
> Pacific NW being more like China's (what part of that huge
> country?) and the
> east coast is more like Japan's.  I thought Azaleas and Rhodies loved the
> west coast (as well as hostas, most of which came from Japan??)  That's a
> good reminder about how a plant's "behavior" is not the same in
> all parts of
> the country.

Louis
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