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Chimacum Woods A RHODODENDRON NURSERY |
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High -quality, exciting species rhododendrons
available here!
Call
us about an exciting opportunity to live in a bright, airy semi-furnished
two-bedroom apartment at Chimacum Woods in exchange for 75 hours of
horticultural and forestry work per month (or $800 rent). We’d love to talk
with you about this (206-383-2713). Live among several hundred species
rhododendrons in the 6-7 acre cultivated garden!
Chimacum Woods is now accepting orders for shipping.
Call us at 206-383-2713 for more information. We have a wide variety of
species available.
FALL OPEN GARDEN EVENT!!! we are opening for tours of the five-acre woodland rhododendron garden and propagation areas. Saturday, September 11 (10am - 6pm) and Sunday, September 12 (1pm - 5pm) 2722 Thorndyke Road, Port Ludlow, 98363 (see the location map) Wander or take a guided tour through the wooded rhdodendron garden; see bigleaf rhodies over twenty years old. The plants, whose forebears come from all over the world, are grown here from seed on the Olympic Peninsula. Call 206-383-2713 for more information. Click here for location map. No entry charge. open to the public. Plants available for sale, as September is the ideal month to plant rhodies.
Garden writer Ciscoe Morris (Seattle Times, May 12, 2010): “If your yard can accommodate a big plant, Ciscoe suggests R. fulvum, R. rex, ssp. fictolacteum or R. sinogrande rhododendrons….”
His article continues:
“Rhododendron royalty”
“If you've got room, add a majestic
flair to your garden by planting one of the big species Rhododendrons.
“Species rhodies come in a wide
variety of growth habit, size and flower color, but the most magnificent ones
feature huge leaves, spectacular flowers and colorful indumentum (felt-like
covering under the leaf) that make them a year-round attraction.
“One of the showiest of the species
Rhododendrons is R. fulvum. Reaching 12 feet, the name fulvum means tawny and
the indumentum on the almost foot-long leaves is flaming orange. The flowers
are pink with a crimson throat.
“Another massive beauty is R. rex
ssp. fictolacteum. The footlong leaves are undercoated with rusty brown, and
the huge pure white, purple throated flower trusses can contain up to 30
individual flowers in a truss!
“If you've got room for a real
honker, R. sinogrande is your plant. Growing to more than 50 feet tall in its
native Tibet, this mammoth rhody features heavily textured dark-green leaves
that can reach 3 feet in length with undersides covered in beautiful
silver-gray indumentum. The flowers are huge and vary from creamy-white to
pale-yellow with red spotting. These big species rhodies sometimes show up at
local nurseries, or they're available on line at
www.chimacumwoods.com.”
Our Mission: to produce and provide quality species rhododendron plants
Chimacum Woods welcomes you to visit the nursery and gardens. We enjoy meeting with wholesale nursery buyers who are eager to offer beautiful, healthy and unusual plants to their customers. We like to talk about the value of helping preserve the gene pool of plants which are endangered because of slash-and-burn agriculture and road-building in their native lands. We like walking the garden to help landscape artists acquire mature plants for shows and gardens. Occasional visits from garden clubs and other interested groups give us a chance to show how species rhododendrons look "planted out" in a woodland setting.Come visit us. Please call 206-383-2713 or 609-506-5865 first to set up a convenient time. We are located between Port Ludlow and Shine, on a hill overlooking the Hood Canal, just a few miles south of the Hood Canal Bridge. Click on Location map for directions.
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