2020 The Rhododendron Vol 60

• Date: 18th April 2021
• author: Andrew Rouse
• tags: New Introductions,Rhododendron,Vireyas

EDITORIAL
Australia has a rich heritage of hybridising rhododendron with our hybridisers producing over 800 hybrids suitable for our climatic conditions. In his contribution to the journal, Graham Price rightly asks the question “where have all the hybrids gone?” Whilst some of these plants would not have stood the test of time, we are at risk of losing many of the good ones, with fewer being held in private collections and even less offered by nurseries. Whilst gardening is as popular as ever, we seem to be losing plant diversity; if my neighbourhood is any indication, garden upgrades entails a small fortune being spent on hard landscaping with what little space is left for narrow beds stocked with multiple specimens of up to 10 cultivars.Will this be enough to spark sufficient interest so that we have the next generation of specialist plant enthusiasts?... excerpt from editorial

CONTENTS
Editorial · Andrew Rouse 
President’s Report · Jeff Jenkinson
Reports – Australian rhododendron groups
National Council, 1976 to 2020 · Lesley Eaton

Articles
Diversity of Rhododendron species in Lake Habbema, Papua · Yasper Michael Mambrasar and Deby Arifiani
What happened to all the hybrids? · Dr Graham Price
Notes on hybridising in Subgenus Choniastrum · Andrew Rouse
The Vireya collection and conservation at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh · Dr Alan Elliott
The adventures of three “highly intelligent” people · Denby Browning
ARS members and their rhododendron journey · Prue Crome

New Registrations 
2019–2020 · Lesley Eaton

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