The Tremeer Cup for the best rhododendron in the show was awarded to Barry Starling for his fine spray of Rhododendron luteiflorum, a yellow flowered species in the subsection Glauca, and closely related to the better known R. [...] The data comprises, where this information is known to the Dictionary compilers, not only parentages, but the names of raisers and the identity of individuals who have registered these names with one of the local Satsuki societies in Japan, together with the relevant dates. [...] Several of these (such as the purplish pink ‘Stina’ and the purplish pink, fading to white ‘Kyllikki’) have curious curved hooks at the top of the stamens, derived from growth of the connective tissue between the anthers; the filaments in ‘Kyllikki’ are also broadly winged, which give the flowers a distinctive appearance, and this is a character the breeder is seeking to develop further in new cul. [...] (Þorsteinn Tómasson has an article on red birches in Garðyrkjuritið 2017, the Yearbook of the Horticultural Society of Iceland.) In the evening I gave my talk to the members of the Horticultural Society. [...] (Ólafur Njálsson has an article on cultivation of rhododendrons in Garðyrkjuritið 2017, the Yearbook of the Horticultural Society of Iceland.) Next, we drove to the summer place of Pétur Jonasson, the current president of the Horticultural Society.
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