We're back at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden for the second half of my visit last June, 2023. If you've read any of my previous posts on the RSBG you know it's not just Rhododendrons—there are a whole lot of ferns there too, including many pyrrosia. This pyrrosia planting in that hollowed out log is one of my favorites.![]()
This one is nearby...
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I can't give you definitive ID on either, which is both frustrating (you'll see a lot of things in this garden that are rare in cultivation and thus hard to find) and fabulous (cool new plants to lust after!)
Speaking of cool, don't we all want a moss-covered fallen tree stump to plant up with treasures?
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Rhododendron calophytum var. calophytum
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Rhododendron glischrum ssp. rude (seriously)
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So fuzzy!
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So colorful...
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Why plant just one scheffflera (maybe S. delavayi) when you can plant three?
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Pyrrosia sheareri in the lower right hand corner.
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This is one of the entrances to the stumpery section of the garden, that's a tree fern (Dicksonia antarctica) on the left.
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Cyrtomium (a genus of about 35 species of ferns), but I'm not sure which ones.
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Cardiocrinum giganteum
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Pretty fantastic aren't they?
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Lonicera crassifolia blooming on the stump.
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Ferns and ferns! (one of them a fabulous pyrrosia)
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Yes, that one...
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Blechnum penna-marina (Austroblechnum penna-marina, alpine water fern)
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Cardiocrinum giganteum on the right now. I might be repeating myself/my photos from the opposite side, but when it's all this beautiful, who cares?
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Onoclea sensibilis, the sensitive fern
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This wall-o-rhododendron is R. williamsianum. Look at that mass of foliage...
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And then consider that I have two of these planted in my small garden. (Oh my!)
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Towards the alpine rock garden now, on my way to the exit.
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And just one more photo, of what might be Adiantum pedatum ‘Imbricatum’. Hope you enjoyed this walk around the RSBG, if you're coming to the Puget Sound Fling in July you'll be visiting the garden yourself!
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Scenes from the stumpery...
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