Re: [SG] Rhodies

I can't tell you what happened or why -- but if it's any reassurance, colour
variations from year to year happen to my rhodies too (also planted by a
previous gardener with an enthusiasm for vivid colours.  I quite like
rhodos -- but fluorescent fuscia and beach-wear day-glow pink are tricky
colours to integrate.  Even FRIN the very back of the garden in a woodland
border, that bubble-gum pink reaches out to you!)

The colour differences seem to happen with paler shades.  I have four that
are sometimes white -- 2 are sometimes pale pink, 2 are sometimes pale
mauve.  They don't switch.  (i.e. the sometimes pink is never sometimes
mauve).

If anyone knows the why of this -- I'd be curious to know too! :-)

(BTW -- those kinds gardeners who responded to my query re: care & feeding
of a variegated rhodo may be interested to know that -- I moved it --
sheltered it -- and it's blooming for the first time in 7 years. A lovely
delicate lilac!)

Donna -- Zone 6ish.  In BC's Fraser Valley.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: PRIMROSES [s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of
> V
> Sent: June 1, 1999 7:31 AM
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: [SG] Rhodies
>
>
> I know I am not losing my mind.
> When we moved into this place last spring, I remember remarking to my DH
> that the previous owner had planted three rhodies...all the same colour. A
> lavandar colour.
> Well his tastes were slightly different than mine...and to make a
> long story
> short...I moved one that was three feet tall from the front of
> one border to
> the back of another.
> It's blooming.
> It is now a white rhodie.
> I am certain that it was lavendar.
> Not that I am complaining, because it is surely just as
> pretty....but?!?!?!?!!??
> What happened?
>
> Vickie
> Southern York County,  Pennslyvania
> Zone 6
> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/3009/index.html
> ICQ# 30660126
>
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