Find Out About Vireya Rhododendrons, a Superb Type of Rhododendron For Our Area

Submitted by the Event Organizer

There is a type of rhododendron which grows superbly in our area and has a rich history.

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v32n1/v32n1-leach.htm

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/history.htm

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/archive/CallardRSF2011.pdf

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/archive/StevensNRBGE85.pdf

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/archive/ArgentSRS08.pdf

These are the vireyas.

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/gallery-sp.htm

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/gallery-hyb.htm

Vireyas mainly range from the Malay Peninsula to northern Australia.

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/dbsearchform.htm

In the rhododendron world, Strybing Arboretum is probably best known for introducing vireyas into California horticulture.

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v45n1/v45n1-morebeck.htm

The Strybing Arboretum is not the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

Jock Brydon and Peter Sullivan at the San Francisco Botanical Garden when it was known as the Strybing Arboretum are responsible for bringing many Vireya Series rhododendrons to the United States.

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v23n4/v23n4-osborn.htm

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v23n4/v23n4-brydon.htm

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v30n2/v30n2-brydon.htm

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v44n3/v44n3-brydon.htm

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v49n3/v49n3-sullivan.htm

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/archive/VV/VV75-0505.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20170622022704/https://rhodygarden.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/VV90.pdf

At the yearly plant sales at the San Francisco Botanical Garden vireyas are featured.

It is surprising that places which sell orchids do not also sell vireyas since many vireya species were introduced at the Strybing Arboretum, and many vireyas were hybridized in California.

Vireyas can be seen in San Francisco at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, The Conservatory of Flowers, and at Peter Sullivan’s Vireya Garden, at St. John the Evangelist Church,  65 St. Marys Avenue, San Francisco.

Also in the Bay Area vireyas can be seen at the Gardens at Lake Merritt in Oakland, and at the University of California Botanical Garden.

If you would like to find out more about vireyas please come to the next meeting of the De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society which shall be on the nineteenth of February, at 4 PM, at the Legallet Residence,  88 Selby Lane, Atherton 94027, where Christy Hartsell shall give a program on vireyas.

Christy Hartsell is an authority on vireyas and is growing several hundred vireyas in containers in Palo Alto.

https://eurekarhody.org/newsletters/2023/2023%20Eureka%20Chapter%20Newsletter%20-%20January.pdf

Please come and see a program about an outstanding type of plant which can grow superbly in our area .

For further information please go to https://www.deanza-ars.com/

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