Planting Rhododendron

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Rhododendron are striking evergreen shrubs which add a mass of colour and character to the garden whilst requiring very little pruning. Their flowers are truly spectacular and a great deal are produced in spring and summer with a range of stunning colours available, whilst attractive evergreen foliage ensures your garden has some all year round colour. Our dwarf varieties only grow to around 75cm, offering all these great qualities in an easily manageable plant with a compact habit. You can plant these into your border, use as ground cover or even follow Jeff’s advice and plant up into a container for a patio display.


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0:02 Rhododendrons. now I could talk endlessly about Rhododendrons because I do happen

0:07 to like them but I tell you what there's some some crackers out for the small

0:11 garden, for a patio, again it's changing all the time

0:15 but dwarf rhododendrons are beautiful and they're very very simple. They

0:19 come in a blister pack like this, now as soon as the blister pack arrives open it

0:24 up because they're desperate it's like children on the long journey they want

0:28 to get out and they want to get in the fresh air so open them up and if you can,

0:32 just give them a water; even if you don't get to them for another few hours it

0:36 doesn't matter if you open the packet up and give them a slight water but this is

0:41 how they come. Now these are dwarf rhododendron after about ten years it's

0:45 only gonna be about three foot tall this is called Scarlet Wonder, a beautiful

0:50 thing. Now you can pot them on or put them straight into the border it doesn't

0:54 matter. A few crocks in the bottom as always it

0:59 doesn't like sitting in moisture but they're very shallow rooted dwarf

1:05 rhododendrons or any rhododendrons are very shallow rooted. Now just a

1:10 little bit about the compost, the compost is ericaceous

1:13 Don't let that confuse you too much it just means it's on the acid side of the

1:17 pH level. The pH level being the acid alkaline balance in your soil. You don't

1:24 need to know of them much which was certainly in this area this part of the

1:28 country we have no problem with the soil being neutral. Far down south where

1:34 its chalky, more alkaline, you'd have to add this or grow it in a pot and the

1:39 beauty of growing in a pot is you can actually control what what the compost

1:44 is going to be so ericaceous compost is perfect for the Azaleas and

1:48 Rhododendrons and look at that dwarf rooted Dwarf Rhododendron, a beautiful

1:57 thing ready to go and all you need to do is pop that in there, a little bit more

2:01 compost on the top. Now I'm planting Scarlet Wonder which is a lovely vibrant

2:08 red but there are three in all and more hymies a lovely

2:12 purple blue one or pink drift, that's quite an attractive name but all in a very

2:18 very dwarf in a small garden they'll give you a little splash of colour. Now

2:22 what you can do is because this is going to grow away quite happily you don't

2:27 need too big a pot for something this size but you could put that on the center

2:31 of a table just to watch it. It'll have beautiful flowers, this is going to

2:35 flower this year, it will have a beautiful flower and then slowly you can

2:39 pot it on until it goes out in the border and that's the way to do it and

2:43 it starts off it's not going to be too expensive.

2:45 They really are marvelous the way the way they come like this, we can put a few

2:51 pebbles on the top to dress it up but that is a, you know, if you and the good

2:56 lady wife get a bit bored and don't have anything to talk about you could talk

3:00 about the Scarlet Wonder, how good is that.


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