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Help identifying rhododendron please!

--Duncan----Duncan-- Posts: 19
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Good morning all :) I bought what I thought was a Gomer Waterer a couple of weeks ago but now that it's flowered it's clearly something else (see pic attached). 

Before I relocate it, would anyone be able to give me an idea of what it might be? I chose the Gomer for a particular spot based on eventual height / width and colour, so it would be good to know what to expect from this mystery rhodie!

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    There are hundreds of varieties, if not thousands, so it would be almost impossible to ID accurately unless you were a real expert, and even then - colour in photos can distort the real thing, so you'd only be narrowing down the likely ones. 
    If it gets too big, it can be pruned anyway, so it's not likely to be a huge problem if it gets too large for the space you site it in  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • --Duncan----Duncan-- Posts: 19
    Ah thanks Fairygirl! I've always loved rhodies but am new to planting them and it's good to know they can be pruned back easily enough.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It'll be fine - if it has the right conditions, it'll be happy  :)

    Did you go back to wherever you got it though? If it's not 'what it says on the tin', you're entitled to a refund or replacement. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • --Duncan----Duncan-- Posts: 19
    Did you go back to wherever you got it though? If it's not 'what it says on the tin', you're entitled to a refund or replacement. 
    I emailed the nursery yesterday with pics and luckily I'd left the label on the stem so I'll see what they come back with.  Seems a bit of a fankle to dig it up and take it back as it's a fair drive away so I'll probably just move it somewhere else and hope for a gift voucher in my email  :D
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    It might be Rhododendron Karl Naue INKARHO.

  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    I love the word "fankle." Haven't heard that in years!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Fankle is a great word isn't it? I use it quite often, although there are alternatives which may not be so polite  ;)

    I didn't actually mean digging it up - sorry, but a photo with the label in situ would definitely be the way to go, especially if you also have the receipt. Hope you get a good outcome @--Duncan-- :)
    Check out @steephill's suggestion too though. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • --Duncan----Duncan-- Posts: 19
    steephill said:
    It might be Rhododendron Karl Naue INKARHO.

    Thanks I'll check it out!  :)
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited May 2023
    A nursery in Germany commercialised a group of rhododendrons grafted on a lime tolerant rootstock.  They are bought by people on limey soil who must have rhododendrons.  They are called Inkarho and are priced for the higher production costs and the willingness of customers to pay.  You are unlikely to have one of these unknowingly.  "Karl Naue" ungepfropft maybe.

    BTW.  The place you bought it from are probably the best people to recognise the variety.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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