Dunedin and New Zealand's 70th Jubilee Rhododendron Conference

摘要

Dunedin is a city of about 120,000 on the southeast coast of New Zealand's South Island. Its first organised European settlement was by "Free Kirk" Presbyterian Scots, and after Mark Twain visited it in 1895, he wrote "They stopped here on the way toheaven, thinking they had arrived." Dunedin has a temperate climate devoid of extremes of hot or cold, and an acid soil on a clay base that allows culture of a wide variety of rhododendrons, from large-leaved Grandia and Fakonera to alpine dwarfs. Its main disadvantage is that it has is a rather low average annual rainfall (about 30 in).