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A new project - how to collect so many fine photographs
of rhododendrons and azaleas from several computers and external hard
disks.... I could just let them be where they are and take a nap... But
then it would be a waste fo so many interesting images for lovers of
rhododendrons. You would not know, but I would... I would feel guilty. A
hell of a job anyway. It took me hundreds of hours just to collect them,
retouch if needed - mostly needed to get a good image - to put them in
albums with the wonderful Jalbum sotware. And to integrate them into my
website with links, keywords etc. And now, I am not even mentioning the
trips and journeys to see the plants at nurseries, parks and gardens. In
the USA, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium etc. And all this for YOU, my
dearest visitors. |
Photography of flowers and plants How is it possible that same flowers and/or plants look so different when you see some on the internet or in books. Or with your own images. Same flower - different color. Modern digital cameras have an automatic white balance that works well mostly. If you know your camera well and how to work with the settings, you can change many things. For instance cloudy, rainy, etc. But you can hardly change the weather
conditions and not always your position towards the plant. The following
conditions have influence on the quality and look of the photo: |
22 Albums with photos of Rhododendron-Species, rhododendrons in the wild
23 albums with photos of deciduous azaleas (az = deciduous azalea)
Comment Also in the following albums I use photos of freinds and\or azalea lovers in the USA. Unfortunately they are not always sharp and good, because the jphotos were taken before 2006. Besides I enlarged them from a resolution of 800 X 600 px to the size of the other photos 1024 X 768. Photo copyright of these photos does not count for me, although in batch change they are indicated as such. Many thanks for Don Hyatt for his cooperation.
37 Albums with
Japanese azaleas (jaz (Jaz) = Japanese
or evergreen azalea
Same comment as with the deciduous azaleas
ZI
say thanks to Joe Klimavicz, Don Hyatt, Sandra MC
Donald and others
Albums with photos of my own new crosses - hybrids of rhododendrons and azaleas. (Z. means Dutch: zaailing = seedling)
Comment: Almost 25 years hybridizing
rhododendrons and azaleas
'delivers' ten thousands of seedlings and at the end plants with
flowers. From seedling on this takes about 3 to 4 years. Making strict
selectlions is very important to do, because my space for planting them out was
limited to about 5 acrres. Not so few, I know....On creteria like flowering
richness, coldhardiness, strong flowers, not fading in bright sun light etc. And
health and good looking plants with leaves remaining at least 3 to 4 years.
In these 25 years I made about 800 crosses with tens of plants. And out of
all these ten thousands of flowering and selected plants there remain 'only' 800
to 1.000 rhododendrons and azaleas that seem to be good for further testing. At
a rhododendron-nursery in Northern Germany. I am lucky to have these nursery man
to give me the opportunity to test my new introductions. We are still testing
some new hybrids for introductions in the years to come. Numbering and naming
these new plants was as follows - in the first years after 1983 I gave numbers
up to about 700; later I used the year of first flowering to name them, f.i. Z.
98-10 is the year 1998 number 10, and Z. 06-41 is the year 2006, number 41. Etc.
Z. means 'zaailing' = seedling. For further information about hybridizing see
the page with 'articles'.
Photography: photographing plants or flowers is
not so easy. You need a good camera and some knowledge about what to do. Example
- waht to do with bright sunllight? Use at least a polarising filter. Light
cloudy weather is the best. Red colours are also a difficult matter. Take also
some green within the flower to avoid wrong colours.
A special way of taking photos is with a very
smal aperture of about 22 till even 36 on some lenses. Also use infillflash. The
result you see is a dark to black background and a very large depth of field.
Result a pin sharp flower with details you will not see on a normal close-up
photo. Well, enjoy my photos and new introductions!!
You will understand the meaning : eigen kruisingen = own crosses or hybrids of my hybridizing work.
Albums with photos of own hybrids of deciduous azaleas
Comment: my hybridizing
deciduous azaleas could never exist or be without the work of Fred Minch
from Puyallup in the
state of Washington in the USA. I met him on several
conventions of the ARS; also his wife Jean.
Herewith I want to honor him for his excellent work of
hybridizing the wonderful deciduous azaleas. As far as I know he died around
2010 - I got a message about it from a son of him. He was an avid hybridizer
with so many good results. I ordered several times seeds of his hybrids, also
pollinated by insects. And he sent me also packages with seeds for free. A mix
of 'everything'.Then I continued his work by crossing them
with other, also European hybrids, f.i. azaleas from Hans Hachmann in Germany. Rh.
luteum, calendulaceum and occidentale he
used and I did also. The hybrids I introduced meanwhile are Rh. "Sun Star" en de Rh. "My Reini".
With double flowers and a bit scented. They are Luteum
hybrids. Many of the other hybrids are 'parentless' meaning that I don't know
(anymore) the parentage. And there are some other hybrids coming in the years
ahead, I hope. Also with Rh. flammeum "Double Pleasure"
that I got from Allen Cantrell, USA. Now
I am selecting many of them and their offspring and look for mildew free
varieties. This is very important, because greyish leaves in summer are not very
attractive.
You will understand: eigen kruisingen van bladverliezende azalea's
means: own crosses (hybrids) of deciduous azaleas
Albums with photos of own hybrids of evergreen azaleas
Comment: Evergreen
azaleas are
stepmotherly endowed in
my hybridizing work. There is a a reason for it. Many years long I brought with
me a nice collection of evergreen azaleas to The Netherlands. Hoping that there
would be a good interest for them here in Holland and\or Germany. That was a
disappointing experience. I offered them, these beauties to quite some
nurserists, but most of the time I got the response, that they were not worth
introcucing to the Dutch or German flower market. But take a look at these
wonderful evergreen azaleas in my albums above. Fortunately there were some
exceptions, like the nursery of Piet Jonkers in the Netherlands. And in Germany
the nursery of the Böhlje family in Westerstede. See www.boehlje.de
They introduced one novelty of my new hybrids, Rh. "Groote Blomen". (something
like that...) By the way, besides, at this moment, oct.
11, 2019, I have a nice collection of special new hybrids, from a cross of
Rh. "Purple Pinwheel" X Rh. "Nymph",
both from the USA. "Purple Pinwheel" has cloven
or splitted petals and has a crawling habit or 'pendula'- form. "Nymph"
is a quite upgrowing plant. Most of the offspring, 65 good
looking plants, is also crawling or hanging down. Now I hope for flowers which
are also cloven, and in the colors red, pink, lilac, purple and\or white. And if
there are even double flowers, I am competely happy... Not happy I am with this
year 2019. A hot summer and now, I write Oct. 11, 2019, a wet fall holds back making flower buds. This does not take impatience into account.
My patience... Any ideas for
pushing them....?
Here are 6 new albums:
Album eigen kruisingen Japanse azalea's 1 Album eigen kruisingen Japanse azalea's 2 Album eigen kruisingen Japanse azalea's 3 Album eigen kruisingen Japanse azalea's 4 Album eigen kruisingen Japanse azalea's 5 Album eigen kruisingen Japanse azalea's 6
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