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Highlights of the Spring 2008 Issue of the Journal ARS

  • More Variegated Rhododendrons
     BY WALTER SCHMALSCHEIDT
    A full array of variegation in foliage of rhododendrons
  • Mapping Rhododendron Planting Zones Across North America - You Can Help
     BY WILLEM MORSINK
    Members can help create more refined planting maps
  • Mealybugs: A Threat to Azaleas
     BY ELEANOR GURAL
    A sorting out of the mealybug problem
  • The Word: Truss
      BY BRUCE PALMER
    A biologist’s explanation of this gardener’s term
  • Rhododendron colemanii: A New Species of Deciduous Azalea from the Coastal Plain of Alabama and Georgia
     BY WENYU ZHOU, TAYLOR GIBBONS, LORETTA GOETSCH AND BENJAMIN HALL
    Discovery of a new azalea species using DNA technology
  • Rhododendron colemanii: A Detective Story
     BY RON MILLER
    Field exploration led to the discovery of a new azalea species
  • Why Is it Pink, Daddy?
     BY PAUL ROGERS
    How chemistry and genetics produce flower color
  • Spruce Reach Island: The Oregon Coast’s Secret Rhododendron Garden, Part III
     BY JOHN M. HAMMOND AND GORDON WYLIE
    Garden visits, discussions, progress and the future at the Hinsdale Estate
  • Sudden Oak Death Website: A Resource for Updates on a Deadly Disease
     BY SONJA NELSON
    How you can use the internet to follow progress on SOD
  • Let’s Talk Hybridizing: Four and A Half Seconds of Fame
     BY CHRIS TRAUTMANN
    How a microwave oven produced interesting new rhododendrons
  • The Wild Rhododendrons of Mount Elphinstone
     BY RON KNIGHT
    A recently discovered stand on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast
  • Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens Turn Dreams into Reality
     BY KRISTI O'DONNELL
    New gatehouse inspires volunteers at this Whidbey Island garden
  • Photo Gallery
     BY JOHN DOPPEL
    A rhododendron poster features a private garden

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