Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden
Federal Way, WA
Yearbook Volumes
(Members receive our annual yearbook as a benefit)

All yearbooks, except 2011 and 2006, are currently for sale for the low price of $10.00 USD, plus shipping (and tax for Washington State residents)

2011    2010     2009     2008     2007     2006

 

No longer available

Rhododendron Species, Volume 6, 2011 
(No longer available for sale.)


ARTICLES INCLUDE:

Rhododendrons at the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden by Doug Justice

The First Gardens by Charles Lyte

Some People Associated with VireyaPlant Names, by George Argent

Construction of the Rutherford Conservatory at the RSBG by Dennis Bottemiller

Rhododendron catawbienseand R. maximum: The Elepidote Species of Eastern North America by Donald W. Hyatt

Conserving Tropical Rhododendrons by Keith Rushforth

University of British Columbia Botanical Garden: Early Years by Roy L. Taylor

Scottish Rhododendron Society 2009 Expedition to Sichuan, Chinaby Keith White

Taxonomy, Phylogeography, and the DNA Variation within Rhododendron Subsection Arborea by Michelle Stitzer, Ngan Hoang and Benjamin Hall

An Early History of Vireya: The People, Places, and Plants of the Nineteenth Century by Chris Callard

On the Hunt for Rhododendron pachysanthum by Philip MacDougall

Species Profile: Rhododendron edgeworthii by Peter Cox

The RSBG 2011 Spring Distribution Catalog by Steve Hootman

 

 

Rhododendron Species, Volume 5, 2010 
Prudence Holliger, Editor
Steve Hootman, Scientific Editor

Joe Ronsley, Associate Editor

Cover Photo, Steve Hootman

Contributors: RSF Staff and Board of Directors

Foreword, by Chip Muller

Mike Robinson (1941-2009) 

The cultivation of Rhododendron species introduced in the modern era of plant collecting, by Steve Hootman 

How northern hemisphere geologic history and paleoclimate shaped the populations of Rhododendron macrophyllum and Rhododendron catawbiense, by Michelle Stitzer, Chuan Cao, and Benjamin Hall 

People, plants, and places: Standish & Noble and James P.C.Russell, by John Hammond 

Growing Rhododendron species in Norway, by Ole Jonny Larsen 

Memories of Rosemoor, by The Lady Anne Berry 

An extraordinary adventure: Joseph Dalton Hooker’s travels in Sikkim and Eastern Nepal—1848, 1849, and 1850, by Clive L. Justice 

Rhododendron decorum—a profile, by Peter Cox 

Yunnan—plants, people, and culture: an exploration with Peter and Sarah Wharton, April 2008, by Dana Cromie 

The Rhododendron Species Foundation and Botanical Garden 

2010 Spring plant Distribution

 

 

Rhododendron Species, Vol 4, 2009

Prudence Holliger, Editor
Steve Hootman, Associate Editor
Proof Readers:  Donald E. King and Wnifred Adams

Cover photo: Don Hyatt
RSF Staff and Board of Directors
Foreword, by Joe Ronsley

Letters - Dr. M. L. A. Robinson and Philippe de Spoelberch

1997 Plant Hunting Expedition to West Bengal and Sikkim, India, by Steve Hootman

Sunningdale Nurseries in the 1950s: A view From the Bottom, by Alleyne Cook

A genetic comparison of eight Rhododendron macrophyllum populations in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, by Wenyu Zhou, et al

The Kurume Azalea, by Akihide Okamoto

The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of Rhododendrons at Rowallane, by Mike Snowden

'Species Hybrids" - A simple man's view, by Mike Robinson

Peter Wharton (1950-2008)

Book Reviews

2009 Spring distribution list

 

Rhododendron Species, Vol 3, 2008

Prudence Holliger, Editor
Steve Hootman, Associate Editor

Cover photo by Don Hyatt
RSF Staff and Board of Directors
Foreword, by Joe Ronsley
 
Rhododendron vaseyi in the Southern Appalachians, by Donald W. Hyatt and George Keen McLellan 
 
Some Thoughts on High Altitude Rhododendron Species, by P. L. Cunnington
 
The Story of the Rhododendron Species Collection in Windsor Great Park, by Mark Flanagan

The Back Roads of South-central Sichuan China - Spring 2007, by Garratt Richardson

From the Tsunami to the Kora: Plant Hunting in Sri Lanka and the Indian Himalaya, by Steve Hootman
 
Rhododendron excellens in Cultivation on the North Island of New Zealand, by Lindsay Davies
 
Species Profile: Rhododendron campylogynum, by Peter A. Cox
 
New Temperate Rhododendron SPecies Cultivated in the UK,  by Mike Robinson
  
Inventory of the Rhododendron Collection at the RSF, compiled by Steve Hootman
 

 

 

RhododendronSpecies, Vol 2, 2007
(Dedicated to the Memory of Warren Berg) 

RSF Staff and Board of Directors Foreword, by Joe Ronsley
Introduction by Steve Hootman and Rick Peterson

Warren Berg—A Personal Remembrance, by Henry Schannen
 
Warren Berg’s Explorations in Asia, by Garratt Richardson
 
The Gorge of the Dulong, by Steve Hootman
 
Rhododendrons of the Philipines, by G.C.G. Argent
 
Rhododendron mendumiae and Some Other Philippine Introductions, by Bill Moyles
 
Growing Rhododendrons in Denmark, by Carl Adam Lehmann
 
Vietnamese Rhododendrons in Cultivation in the UK, by Keith Rushforth
 
The NessHolt Hybrid Rhododendrons—an Occidental Birth! by Peter Cunnington
 
Species Profile: Rhododendron maddenii Hooker, by Steve Hootman
 
Cheju, Another Yakushima, by Warren Berg
 
Yunnanand Sichuan: ChinaTour 2006, by Brenda Macdonald
 
Species Profile: Rhododendron calophytum Franchet 1886, by Steve Hootman
 
Contributors
Plant Catalog--2007
 
 
 

No longer available

Rhododendron Species, Vol 1, 2006
(No longer available for sale.)

Introduction by Steve Hootman and Rick Peterson
 
The Seven Sisters of India, by Steve Hootman
 
Rhododendron calendulaceum: Variations in the Wild, by Don Hyatt and
George Maclellan
 
Rhododendron Cultivars, Their Nomenclature and International
Registration, by Chris Brickell
 
Japanese Azaleas, by Hideo Suzuki
 
Growing Subsection Fortunea Rhododendrons in Belgium, by Philippe de Spoelberch
 
The Taxonomy of Subsection Pseudovireya, by Benjamin Hall, by Lyn Craven
and Loretta Goetsch
 
Species Profile: Rhododendron arboretum, by Peter Cox
 
Yunnan, China Garth WedemireTour, 2005, by
 
List of Contributors
Species in the RSF Collection
RSF Board of Directors and Staff
2006 Spring Plant Catalog