Hey folks, As July ends and August begins, the grove here at Rhododendron State Park is just about finished with this year’s flowers. A few blossoms here and there may be seen still, but any of this season’s flower buds (even the latest ones) have opened up. There won’t be any more new blooms until […]
Author: Ted Lenk
Ted Lenk is an NH State Park Volunteer who checks in regularly at Rhododendron State Park.
Rhododendron Bloom Report: July 25, 2017
Hey folks, Although the main blooming event of 2017 is almost over, there are still plenty of flowers to be seen at the grove this week. Some of you may have seen in this posting from last week how I mentioned how unlikely it would be to get some cold rainy days in July? Well, […]
Rhododendron Bloom Report: July 10, 2017
Hi folks- Sorry about the lack of a bloom report last week – it was a busy week for all of us, what with the Fourth of July landing on a Tuesday this year. As the photos all show, there’s a lot of range within the grove at Rhododendron State Park as far as the […]
Rhododendron Bloom Report: June 26, 2017
Hi folks – What with the weather being more typical (cooler at night) for a New England June (whatever that means), the rhododendrons at Rhododendron State Park in Fitzwilliam, NH are still on track for the middle of July being the greatest amount of flowers in full bloom for the season. There are quite a […]
Rhododendron Bloom Report: June 20, 2017
Hey folks, The flower buds at Rhododendron State Park in Fitzwilliam, NH are beginning to expand a bit in some places. In the shadier spots you may see some buds that have not visibly “woken up,” but in other lighter locations some buds might show some pink color or even be opening up a little. […]
Rhododendron Bloom Report: June 12, 2017
I was horrified to see that the word “specie” that I used in last week’s bloom report to refer to the rhododendrons growing at Rhododendron State Park was the wrong word – it should have been “species” (the word refers to both singular and plural). “Specie” is a somewhat archaic term for money among other […]
Rhododendron Bloom Report: June 8, 2017
Hey folks, Perhaps some of you are wondering about the conditions at Rhododendron State Park. The hybridized and “improved” rhododendron bushes that can be seen in landscaped plantings are in full bloom in southwestern NH, but they are all very different from the rhododendron species found at the park in Fitzwilliam. It is a native […]
Rhododendron Bloom Report: August 5, 2016
Welcome to this year’s last posting of the Rhododendron State Park bloom report: Last week I posted a fuzzy picture of an orchid (Epipactis helleborine – an exotic plant but not terribly invasive) currently in bloom at the grove. I took a much better quality photo this week. A close-up view reveals a pretty flower, […]
Rhododendron Bloom Report: July 29, 2016
Well, folks – the 2016 blossom show is over at Rhododendron State Park. I did not see a single bloom this week. There is lots of evidence of a very dry spell – is it a drought? Not really, but dry enough to affect all those plants with shallow root systems. But wait a minute […]
Rhododendron Bloom Report: July 22, 2016
Although there are a few blooms left here and there (look above eye level along the path), most of the blossoms in the Rhododendron State Park grove are past and gone. A number of the dropped flowers can now be seen on the ground. It seems that the warm temperatures and dry conditions may have […]