Tour an Outstanding Aptos Rhododendron Garden

On Sunday, April 9 at 2 PM , the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society will feature a tour of the Monte Toyon Garden of Maury and Fran Sumner, that is located at the Monte Toyon Camp and Conference Center, 220 Cloister Lane, Aptos.
From the parking lot, please walk uphill to the Observation Platform of the Rhododendron Garden, which is located at the top of the trail.
The tour will be led by Mike McCullough, who knew the Sumners from 1975 until they died.
The Sumners lived in San Francisco, but in order to test and display their hybrids such as the Maddenii Series rhododendrons My Lady, My Guy, Mi Amor, Saffron Prince, Martha Wright and Owen Pierce; and to grow other rhododendrons, in the 1950s they established the three acre Monte Toyon Rhododendron Garden in Aptos.
Information on the rhododendrons of Maurie and Fran Sumner can be found here:
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v47n4/v47n4-morebeck.htm
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v53n4/v53n4-steinbruner.htm
http://www.amazon.com/The-Love-Affair-Fran-Maurie/dp/0881971006
Information on what the tour would be like can be found here:
http://www.imagesforrenewal.com/weekly-image/ravishing-rhododendrons/
Hopefully the early blooming Sumner hybrids My Lady, Saffron Prince, Martha Wright, and Owen Pierce, should be in bloom; as well as rhododendrons such as Else Frye, Rhododendron cubittii, and several Grande Series rhododendrons.
There is no charge for admission.