Ericaceae

I’m very pleased with this photograph. Accurately capturing the blue-green colour on the upper surface of the leaves was the challenge, and I think I was successful.

It’s perhaps the best time of year to see rhododendrons flowering en masse at the garden. I’ll have to check the books in the garden’s reading room, but I presume this rhododendron is named in honour of Peter Kerr, who owned an estate garden in Portland, Oregon. The garden is still open to the public […]