Saturday, April 5 is the Early Show and Sale at Crystal Springs Rhododendron
Garden, SE 28th across from Reed College in Portland.
For a $3.00 admission you can view the garden (don't miss the new fern wall),
see the juried display of early blooming rhododendron trusses, and attend the
plant sale.
The Plant Sale: Hundreds of rhododendron varieties are offered from Wee Bee to
several Loderi hybrids. That's the tall and short of it. Colors: red, purple,
yellow, white, all shades of the previous plus spotted, blended. A range of
flower shapes, leaf shapes and colors, indumentum - - - - You really have to
see them.
Prices? Have you shopped for rhododendrons lately? I have. These fine plants
are priced, in this writer's opinion, below reasonable.
Hope to see you Saturday.
FRED and CAROL BARRETT
