Weekly Weather Report for Petra, Jordan. Looking at the weather in Petra, Jordan over the next 7 days, the maximum temperature will be 31â (or 89â) on Saturday 22nd April at around 2 pm. In the same week the minimum temperature will be 10â (or 51â) on Sunday 16th April at around 5 am.
70 Years and Blooming: Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival attracts large crowd. Rhododendron bushes on top of Roan Mountain bloom through the months of May and June. Wallace Cole hand paints every bird feeder made from a gourd. Crowds gather around white tents at the Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival.
Rhododendron Rhododendron is a large evergreen shrub (growing up to 8m tall) that was introduced to Ireland as an ornamental plant in the 18th Century from Asia and north-west China. There are more than 900 species of Rhododendron, but only one type, Rhododendron ponticum is invasive in Ireland.lowering occurs in spring and summer with plants capable of producing large quantities of viable seed, which can persist to create a seed-bank in the soil. Rhododendron can also propagate itself by vegetative means, both by suckering from roots and by layering wherever branches touch the ground.