Illustrated with more than 110 striking color photographs and packed with advice on every aspect of rhododendron growing, from soil preparation and landscape design to advanced propagating and hybridizing techniques, this is the most useful book on these spectacular flowering shrubs. Reiley has fully updated his practical, hands-on approach with more of the detailed information that gardeners need to choose and grow these luxuriant, beautifully blossoming plants.
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"This work is a good additon to gardening collections."
—January Adams, American Reference Books Annual, 2005 (American Reference Books Annual )
"I am enthusiastic about this book; it covers a range of topics not collected together elsewhere and all rhodoholics should have a copy."
—M. J. Harvey, Victoria Rhododendron Society Newsletter, March 2005 (Victoria Rhododendron Society )
—January Adams, American Reference Books Annual, 2005 (American Reference Books Annual )
"I am enthusiastic about this book; it covers a range of topics not collected together elsewhere and all rhodoholics should have a copy."
—M. J. Harvey, Victoria Rhododendron Society Newsletter, March 2005 (Victoria Rhododendron Society )
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Illustrated with more than 110 striking color photographs and packed with advice on every aspect of rhododendron growing, from soil preparation and landscape design to advanced propagating and hybridizing techniques, this is the most useful book on these spectacular flowering shrubs.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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Tricks of the trade by an American Rododendron grower,
This review is from: Success with Rhododendrons and Azaleas (Paperback)
Reiley is without doubt an eminent and successfull Rododendron grower. His whole approach to to subject shows that he knows what he is speaking about from life experience; he doesn't repeat without comment the commonplaces to be found in so many gardening manuals and he has the ability to present data in a context which is easy to understand. However, this book is rather for a professional gardener who wants to set up his own nursery for Rhododendra and Azaleas. This does not have to be a weakness of this book; Reiley presents his chapters about growing requirements, selection of varieties, use in the landscape, propagation, nursery growing and hybridisation in a very convincing but scientific way and view. His auditory seems to be preeminently US-American. For the USA he gives good overviews about the growth conditions in many states and recommends good varieties there. Readers from other countries will feel sorry that they get much less here. Thanks to its thoroughly research and convincing conclusions every reader will understand more about these plants and will take useful new information out of this book, but for the professional grower or landscaper -especially in the US- this could become the bible for his job!
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This review is from: Success With Rhododendrons and Azaleas, Revised Edition (Paperback)
This is an great book on growing rhododendrons/etc overall. It has far more and better information on how to propogate (cuttings, layering, seeds, etc) than most other books, and the lists of "good-doers" are an excellent guide to someone starting out. Many Rhododendron books are to a large degree picture books - listing hybrids with pretty pictures. This book concentrates on the culturing, diseases, planting, propogation, hardiness, soil, how acidity affects nutrients, etc.
The strongest recommendation for me: My father, who's a 30+ year rhododendron and azalea collector, looked at the 12 or so books I'd picked up last year after getting bitten with the rhodie bug last year, and said this one was the one book he'd like to get a copy of for Christmas.
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Great Text, Weak Photography,
By Kevin (San Rafael, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Success With Rhododendrons and Azaleas, Revised Edition (Paperback)
The text of this book is great for the rhody enthusiast and gardener. Very readable and informative. It is probably below that necessary for rhody breeders. Mr. Reiley should hire a professional photographer or locate photographs that are at the level of his writing. Only the rare author is able to take his/her own photographs. I can't believe that Timber Press actually printed some of the photos.
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The genus Rhododendron belongs to the family Ericaceae, commonly called the heath family. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coarse sphagnum peat moss, good plant habit, deciduous azalea species, deciduous azalea hybrids, existing soil level, plant food elements, azalea cuttings, lepidote rhododendrons, rhododendron cuttings, saddle graft, frilled flowers, open growth habit, azalea cultivars, late midseason, ericaceous plants, rhododendron hybrids, deciduous azaleas, evergreen azaleas, compact growth habit, native azaleas, rhododendron species, upright growth habit, hybridizing program, upright grower, transplanted plants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Edward Reiley Plate, North America, United States, Carolinianum Group, Delp Hybrid, North Carolina, Pacific Northwest, Good Doer Lists, South Carolina, Eleanor Philp Plate, Exbury Hybrids, Paul James Plate, Washington State, Rhododendrons of the World, Specific Uses, Appalachian Mountains, Don Hyatt Plate, New York, Vancouver Island, White Section, Wayne Mezitt Plate New!
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The genus Rhododendron belongs to the family Ericaceae, commonly called the heath family. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coarse sphagnum peat moss, good plant habit, deciduous azalea species, deciduous azalea hybrids, existing soil level, plant food elements, azalea cuttings, lepidote rhododendrons, rhododendron cuttings, saddle graft, frilled flowers, open growth habit, azalea cultivars, late midseason, ericaceous plants, rhododendron hybrids, deciduous azaleas, evergreen azaleas, compact growth habit, native azaleas, rhododendron species, upright growth habit, hybridizing program, upright grower, transplanted plants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Edward Reiley Plate, North America, United States, Carolinianum Group, Delp Hybrid, North Carolina, Pacific Northwest, Good Doer Lists, South Carolina, Eleanor Philp Plate, Exbury Hybrids, Paul James Plate, Washington State, Rhododendrons of the World, Specific Uses, Appalachian Mountains, Don Hyatt Plate, New York, Vancouver Island, White Section, Wayne Mezitt Plate New!
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- Rhododendrons of the World by David G. Leach on 4 pages
- Rhododendron Hybrids (Includes Selected, Named Forms of Rhododendron Species) by Homer E. Salley on page 7, page 9, and Back Matter
- Color Your Garden: The Royal Horticultural Society (Rhs) by Jill Billington on page 17, and Back Matter
- Crater Lake: The Story Behind the Scenery (Discover America: National Parks: The Story Behind the Scenery) by Ronald G. Warfield on page 9
- Compendium of Rhododendron and Azalea Diseases (Disease Compendium Series of the American Phytopathological Society) by Duane L. Coyier in Back Matter
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- Rhododendrons in the Landscape by Sonja Nelson on page 57, and Back Matter
- Breeding Ornamental Plants by Dorothy J. Callaway on page 213, and Back Matter
- Rhododendrons & Azaleas: A Colour Guide by Kenneth Cox in Back Matter
- Winter-flowering Shrubs by Michael W. Buffin in Back Matter
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