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Lem's Original Point Defiance Rhododendron Plant

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This is Lem's original plant
      of Point Defiance Rhododendron, now close to forty years old.
      Lem made the cross in the 1960s, and it was registered by the
      Metropolitian Park District in 1970.

      
Point Defiance is a cross
      between Anna, a 1952 Lem hybrid named after his wife; and Marinus
      Koster, a 1937 Koster cross.


The original
      Point Defiance is now fifteen feet tall. It has grown thin and
      rangey because of heavy shade, but should fill out as the canopy
      is opened up. It does still flower, but not as fully as it should
      in more open shade.