0 a large evergreen bush (= one that never loses its leaves) with large, usually bright pink, purple, or white flowers: --
a rhododendron bush
1 a large evergreen bush with flat, shiny leaves and bright pink, purple, or white flowers --
Therefore, the rhododendron must be controlled.
It also said that the plant material destroyed was not trees but mainly rhododendrons, which clearly has a bearing on any approach that might be taken to protect such copses.
My noble friend mentioned rhododendrons, azaleas, laburnums, cherries and any ornamental shrubs which do not grow in the wild.
None the less, in recent years, we have begun to move against them—the rhododendron is becoming overgrown.
When rhododendrons are young and fresh, and flower in the spring, we are all attracted to them like bees to the honeypot.
It has been endemic in rhododendrons for years.
You can see hydrangeas, myrtle, azaleas and rhododendrons of a kind and a size unequalled.
In each of the cases on trees, there had already been findings of the disease nearby on plants of the rhododendron family.
