COLOR YOUR OWN RHODODENDRON
Ever Wish that you could have a real Blue Rhododendron in your collection?
How about a brilliant red - yellow-orange tricolor? Well, NOW YOU CAN!
Download a line drawing and let the younger ones color it.
Later you can compare it to the photograph and see what the original flowers
looked like.
Most of the files are less than 50K in size, and are 800 pixels wide
This section will continue to expand over time as more photographs get converted.
Click on an image to download the larger version
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you color this one..........the original looks like this
any color you like. it's a one-of-a-kind hybrid in any case |
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The flowers on this vireya are white with a pink tinge. Beter not try
to reproduce the original colors |
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Malta is an old-fashioned early bloomer. If you get a frost on the flower,
color it a yucky slimy brown |
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Taurus is an impossibly rich deep red. Fortunately the color is not as
intense when the bud first opens |
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the azalea Daybreak is great for warm pastel colors |
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A truss from one of the rhododendron shows |
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R. viscosum azalea. There is a mitsuma spider on it too! Viscosum is fragrant,
bloons in June. |
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an unnamed hybrid with possibilities |
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another grex from the same pod |
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a mitsuma spider on a mole plant |
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a rare single 4 inch late blooming floret on a usually double flowered
azalea |
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unknown warrior |
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As a bonus picture, here is what you might accomlish with creative coloration
(this is the Taurus bud from the coloring picture) -click here to see it-