{"id":8138,"date":"2015-05-08T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T23:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2020-05-21T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:55:45","slug":"exbury-azalea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8138","title":{"rendered":"Exbury Azalea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8140\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150508_105529.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8140\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150508_105529-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Exbury Azalea\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8140\" data-wp-pid=\"8140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150508_105529-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150508_105529-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150508_105529-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150508_105529-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150508_105529.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exbury Azalea<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy called me today from Home Depot asking if I wanted her to buy this Exbury azalea. I&#8217;ve been meaning to get a few of these for the yard and this one was reasonably priced and it good shape, so I said yes. What is an Exbury azalea, you might ask? They have a fairly complicated makeup and many of the early records don&#8217;t exist. But in the late 18th century, hybrids were made between North American azalea species <em>Rhododendron calendulaceum<\/em>, <em>nudiflorum<\/em>, <em>arborescens<\/em>, and <em>viscosum<\/em>, and the bright yellow flowered, European <em>R. luteum<\/em>, producing what are generally referred to as Ghent azaleas. The addition of <em>R. molle<\/em> and <em>japonicum<\/em> took the azaleas to the next stage, the Mollis and then <em>R. occidentale<\/em> was added, giving us the Knaphill azaleas. Starting in the 1920s Lionel de Rothschild made hundreds of thousands of hybrids and brought us the Exbury azalea. Well, that&#8217;s a rather simplified history. You can read more here: <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.lib.vt.edu\/ejournals\/JARS\/v40n1\/v40n1-cash1.htm\" target=\"_VTedu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/scholar.lib.vt.edu\/ejournals\/JARS\/v40n1\/v40n1-cash1.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy called me today from Home Depot asking if I wanted her to buy this Exbury azalea. I&#8217;ve been meaning to get a few of these for the yard and this one was reasonably priced and it good shape, so I said yes. What is an Exbury azalea, you might ask? They have a fairly &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8138\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1658,87,29,1657,1659,28,58,1631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18948,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions\/18948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}