Join us as we tour the Hendricks Park Rhododendron Garden in the height of its springtime glory. Head-gardener Emily Aune leads us through the garden, highlighting not only it’s stunning diversity of rhododendrons, but also some of the deer-tolerant and beautiful trees, shrubs, and ground-covers of Eugene, Oregon’s most prestigious garden.
Located in zone 8.
Filmed in Early May.
Hendricks Park Rhododendron Garden was created in 1951, thanks to a collaboration between the city of Eugene and the Eugene Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society. As the famous quote goes: “You [city] provide the site and irrigation, we’ll [ARS] provide the plants!”
Head-gardener Emily Aune works diligently to manage the azalea lacebug infestation currently present in the garden without the use of neonicotinoids. Her ultimate long-term goal for the garden is to replace susceptible varieties with resistant ones, which means discovering what those resistant varieties are. For those of you interested in a more in-depth dive into this subject, as well as a list of the resistant varieties she had discovered up until its release date, please check out the April 2021 issue of the ARS Newsletter’s article by Aune entitled “Meeting the Challenge of Lacebugs” I’ll put a link to it in the top pinned comment.
And as always, thank you for coming with us Over the Fence!