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Dec 4, 2024 6:01 PM CST
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Name: Keith
Invercargill, New Zealand (Zone 9a)
Garden Photography Region: New Zealand Japanese Maples Roses
Rhododendron macabeanum

Macabeanum's spring growth reaches for the sky.

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Dec 4, 2024 6:36 PM CST
Name: Rj
Just S of the twin cities of M (Zone 4b)
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Spectacular banner Keith!
As Yogi Berra said, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
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Dec 4, 2024 6:42 PM CST
Name: Donna
West Jefferson, North Carolina (Zone 7a)
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crawgarden said: Spectacular banner Keith!


I agree
“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”
~Rod Serling
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Dec 4, 2024 9:07 PM CST
Name: Valerie
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)
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That's such a cool banner Keith I tip my hat to you. Wish that rhodo came dwarf and really hardy!
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Dec 4, 2024 10:13 PM CST
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Name: Keith
Invercargill, New Zealand (Zone 9a)
Garden Photography Region: New Zealand Japanese Maples Roses
Thanks Rj, Donna and Valerie. Well, it did start as a dwarf! Here it is in January 2008, not too long after it was planted, maybe in its second year. In need of a bit of work! *Blush*
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But we gardeners don't need to be optimists. We just know that, with time, our trees and shrubs will fulfill their promise. 17 years later and it's towering over my head and still in its childhood. Here's the photo the banner came from - mid October this year.
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