| | Articles about rhododendrons and azaleas |
 | | They were mostly named for rivers in the ‘Sauerland’ in Germany, where he lived. |
 | | We saw the beautiful castle of Pilnitz on the bank of the river Elbe, and tried to find the research station, where these azaleas were released, but it was closed and it does not exist any more. |
 | | They were introduced under numbers and most of them got their names in 1950; names of rivers in a region in Germany called “Bergisches Land”, such as ‘Agger’; ‘Bever’; ‘Bigge’; ‘Diemel’; ‘Eder’; ‘Ennepe’; Glor’; ‘Kerspe’ and many others. |
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