Download Self Tour Early Spring 2015 Enter the courtyard and look to your right where you will see #1 Arisaema sikokianum*, Jack in the Pulpit. This strange-looking plant has a beautiful but unusual flower of dark purple and white. It is easily grown in the shaded garden. From the garden shop walk to […]
Self Tour: Late Winter 2015
Download Late Winter 2015 #1 Rhododendron strigillosum welcomes you to the garden as you enter to the courtyard. This early flowering species puts on a spectacular display every year. It has distinctive bristles on the midrib, petiole, and foliage. R. strigillosum is native to Sichuan and NE Yunnan, China. Turn left on the main […]
Rhododendron Species, Vol 10, 2015
ARTICLES INCLUDE: 2012 Expedition to China Part One: Sichuan Steve Hootman Rhododendrons in Traditional Chinese Medicine Elaine Sedlack Lecture at the Rhododendron Species Foundation and Botanical Garden 50th Year Celebration David Chamberlain Mr. John Bond and Windsor Great Park Gerry Gibbens USC’s Rhododendrons: 50 Years On Douglas Justice Tannock Glen: An Air of Quality […]
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Self Tour Fall 2014
Download the Fall_2014 Self-Tour Please follow the black numbered signsfor this self-guided tour. From the Garden Shop, walk straight to visit #1 Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum (Doublefile Viburnum*) native to China and Japan. This deciduous shrub provides beautiful white blossoms in the spring as well as stunning reddish-bronze fall foliage color. Right behind is […]
Check out our rhododendron portraits
Flower Photography Class – 2014
David Fishman – photographer
RSBG Featured Photographer Unique Botanical Portraits by David H. Fishman David’s Botanical Portraits of flowers and plants are not ordinary garden images both in plant selection and photo technique. Much as you might go to a professional photographer for a portrait sitting, David does the same for plants. His Botanical Portraits exhibit great detail with […]
2014 Spring Plant Sale
Garden Conservancy Northwest Network
Garden Conservancy Northwest Network
Rhododendron Species, Vol 9, 2014
2014 RSF Yearbook ARTICLES INCLUDE: The 1997 Expedition to Yunnan, China (revised from a series of articles previously published in the RSF Newsletter) by Steve Hootman Full Circle: Polo De Lorenzo, Warren Smith, and the Sonoma Horticultural Nursery by Elaine Sedlack Rain, Mud and Rhododendrons: Exploring Arunachal Pradesh (Northeastern India) in the Monsoon Season by […]
Birdlife in the Garden
The Garden hosts a variety of bird life. We’ll be adding to this photo collection as the avians present themselves. BIRD CENSUS FOR RSBG A year-long bird census was conducted at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Gardens from May 1999 though April 2000 at the suggestion of the Nature Mapping Program located at the University of […]
Class: Introduction to Flower Photography
Introduction to Flower Photography Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden Oct. 19 , 2013, during Fall Foliage Festival International Day 10:15 am to 12:15 pm Cost: $40, inclusive of Garden admission Register ONLINE Instructor – Lesli Cohan, Photographer & Owner of Images Through The Door Photography Download Introduction_to_Flower_Photography
Gallery – Evening in the Garden 2013
May Bloom
June Bloom – R. amagianum
