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      <image:caption>Rhododendron ‘Jim Barlup’ hybridized by Marc Colombel of France</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.cowichanrhodos.ca/newsletters/message-from-the-president-april-2026</loc>
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      <image:caption>Rhododendron augustinii ‘Marine’ with Rhododendron ‘Horizon Lakeside’ in front</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.cowichanrhodos.ca/newsletters/cvrs-april-meeting</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - CVRS April Meeting - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rhododendron cinnabarinum</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Rhododendrons in Bloom in April - Rhododendron ‘Biskra’ is a slender, upright rhododendron with R. cinnabarinum and R. ambiguum parentage.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Rhododendrons in Bloom in April - Rhododendron ‘Biskra’ leaves are slender, elliptic, glossy green. Its waxy, bright, pendant, bell-shaped flowers are stunning.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Rhododendron augustinii‍ Ken Cox’s form</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rhododendron augustinii</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Rhododendrons in Bloom in April</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rhododendron ‘Viscy’ is an eye-catching rhododendron when in bloom and has often been selected as the ‘People’s Choice” award at rhododendron truss shows</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Rhododendrons in Bloom in April - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rhododendron ‘Viscy’ grows to be a large plant with strong, waxy foliage and flowers</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Rhododendrons in Bloom in April - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rhododendron ‘Blue Baron’ is a compact, upright lepidote (small-leaved) rhododendron smothered in electric blue-violet flowers</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Rhododendrons in Bloom in April - Rhododendron ‘Blue Baron’</image:title>
      <image:caption>A close-up of ‘Blue Baron’ shows the tight clusters of small blue flowers. An eye-catching small rhododendron</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Rhododendrons in Bloom in April - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rhododendron ‘PJM’ is one of the most dependable, earliest and brightest rhododendrons to bloom in late March and early April. PJM is an acronym for Peter J. Mezzitt who hybridized a number of siblings often referred to as the PJM Group.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Rhododendrons in Bloom in April - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This delicate and cheery rhododendron is blooming in Carrie Nelson’s garden and unfortunately the label has been lost. She welcomes identification, if you recognize it.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Rhododendrons in Bloom in April - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Rhododendrons in Bloom in April - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.cowichanrhodos.ca/newsletters/april-magic</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - April Magic - Hyacinths</image:title>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - April Magic - Trillium in white</image:title>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - April Magic - Anemone in white</image:title>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - April Magic - Anemone in blue clusters</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.cowichanrhodos.ca/newsletters/differing-opinions-species-or-hybrids</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-03-30</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Rhododendron ‘Princess Abkhazi’</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Differing Opinions: Species or Hybrids - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The close inspection of foliage and the indumentum, that some rhododendron shoppers value, that determines their purchase choices.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.cowichanrhodos.ca/newsletters/hybrid-rhodos</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-03-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Outstanding Hybrid Rhododendrons and their Hybridizers - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jim Barlup’s Rhododendron ‘Sun Silk’ and Frank Fujioka’s Rhododendron ‘Starbright Champagne’ in bud behind. These rhododendrons were selected and planted by the home owners as prize features on both sides of the front entrance to their home.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Outstanding Hybrid Rhododendrons and their Hybridizers - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Barlup’s hybrid, Rhododendron ‘Moe’s Journey’</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Outstanding Hybrid Rhododendrons and their Hybridizers - Moe Massa, proudly lifts the leaf of a big leaf rhododendron that he had grown from seed.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Outstanding Hybrid Rhododendrons and their Hybridizers - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jim Barlup with his rhododendron hybrid ‘Laramie’.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Outstanding Hybrid Rhododendrons and their Hybridizers - Rhododendron ‘Laramie’</image:title>
      <image:caption>R. ‘Laramie’ has lovely dark green mature foliage and fuzzy, silver-grey new growth.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d6ac58317b1c6082666372/0a386fa8-58e7-43c8-951c-515ada4d1244/Leaf-39.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Newsletters - Outstanding Hybrid Rhododendrons and their Hybridizers - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Outstanding Hybrid Rhododendrons and their Hybridizers - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Outstanding Hybrid Rhododendrons and their Hybridizers - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Frank's garden is a hybridizer's working garden containing most of his own hybrid rhododendrons.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rhododendron ‘Glowing Gold’</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rhododendron ‘Glowing Gold’</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.cowichanrhodos.ca/newsletters/companion-plant-april-2026</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Companion Plants for the Woodland Garden — Hostas — - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hosta with a variety of foliage textures (Photo: Giboshi Hill Hostas)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Companion Plants for the Woodland Garden — Hostas — - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Two of my favourite Hosta enhancing one another’s rich blue tones</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d6ac58317b1c6082666372/60479c9b-5519-41c4-b73d-acbd3ac5ed86/Sip+of+Wine+2+web+pic.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Newsletters - Companion Plants for the Woodland Garden — Hostas — - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hosta ‘Sip of Wine’ The dusky, purple in the petioles saturates the base of the milky, moss-green leaves, and continues in the veins throughout the full length of the leaves. The purple pigmentation apparently stays all season; in Fall, lavender flowers complete the picture.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d6ac58317b1c6082666372/2df735ce-4dcd-486c-bf4a-86d908da9ac1/Alligator-Rock+Bob+or+Don+Rawson+web+2026.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Newsletters - Companion Plants for the Woodland Garden — Hostas — - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hosta ‘Alligator Rock’: ‘Alligator Rock’ is a 2026 introduction with foliage of thick substance with perfectly aligned rows of alligator-like corrugation. (Photo is courtesy is Don Rawson)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Companion Plants for the Woodland Garden — Hostas — - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hosta ‘Midnight Oil’: This hosta will need to be meticulously sited in the garden so as to fully augment its unique features. Thick, extremely dark-green leaves grow upright, are cupped and corrugated, and so shiny that they appear oiled. Purple flowers are a lovely contrast to the foliage.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Companion Plants for the Woodland Garden — Hostas — - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hosta ‘Beet Salad’: Beautiful, deep red petioles lift bright-green, distinctly-veined leaves displaying a red vein visible on the border until July. Purple flowers held on 36” scapes turn to red seed pods in fall, and, as a bonus, are viable. Photos: Giboshi Hill</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.cowichanrhodos.ca/newsletters/acer-palmatum-shishisgashira</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-03-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’ - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’ - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>‘Shishigashira’ in Spring</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>‘Shishigashira’ in Fall</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.cowichanrhodos.ca/newsletters/beamish-garden-on-the-ars-convention-tour</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-03-30</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d6ac58317b1c6082666372/f217179a-382d-4ee4-ad86-be176f2a6766/Shogun.JPG</image:loc>
      <image:title>Newsletters - Beamish Garden on the ARS Convention Tour - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Beamish garden is perhaps the only garden growing this rarely-seen, stunning Rhododendron ‘Shogun’. (Photo: Al Cambell)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Newsletters - Beamish Garden on the ARS Convention Tour - Dr. Richard Beamish is, by any standards, an accomplished individual.</image:title>
      <image:caption>He has a PhD in Zoology. Significantly, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as a member of the International Panel on Climate Change</image:caption>
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  <url>
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      <image:caption>x moupinense is more compact than its parents. The leaves are oval elliptic, persistent glossy green. Its flowers are pure white with chocolate anthers.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>R. caucasicum (seed parent) hybrid. Lovely frilly flowers are pink in bud, opening pale pink, and fading to white blush. The foliage is medium green with light brown indumentum and slightly shorter leaves than ‘Rosa Mundi’. It has a very early bloom time; in some areas, it blooms as early as January and February. At maturity, it may grow to a six-foot rounded plant.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>(syn ‘Rosamundi’)  R. caucasicum is also the seed parent of ‘Rosa Mundi’ with an unknown pollen parent. Its flowers are lighter pink in colour than ‘Christmas Cheer’, and the foliage is a darker green. R. ‘Rosa Mundi’ flowers several weeks later than ‘Christmas Cheer’. It is slightly shorter growing, to approximately four feet.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Both Rhododendron ‘Christmas Cheer’ and ‘Rosa Mundi’ trusses fade from pink to lovely, near white as they age, depicted in the photo of R. ‘Rosa Mundi’ on the right.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hepatica nobilis, as well.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hosted by the Vancouver Island chapters of the American Rhododendron Society:  Mount Arrowsmith – Nanaimo – Cowichan Valley  – Victoria – North Island; along with the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden</image:caption>
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