Rhododendron James Burchett AGM
- Code: HJAMES
- Flower Colour: White
- Flowering Month: Summer
- Height After 10 Years: 150-175cm
- Interesting Foliage: No
- Scent: Scented
- Hardiness: To -20 °C
Wonderful large scented white flowers with a slight mauve tinge and prominent green-yellow speckled flare in dense trusses in late June to early July. This plant takes us little longer to propagate but it is certainly one of the best later flowering hybrids. It has lovely long dark foliage on a tough, vigorous plant with a dense habit. Height 150-180cm in 10 years. Best in partial shade to protect the blooms.
- Recommended for: Fregrance and to extend the flowering season.
- Easy to grow.
- Ideal position: Most garden situations.
- Habit: Dense.
- Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
- Parentage: fortunei subsp. discolor (s) X catawbiense hybrid.
- Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1958).
- Bred by: W.C. Slocock. Origin: British.
- Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6.
- RHS Hardiness Rating: H4.
- How we usually propagate this plant: Graft.
- Awards: RHS Award of Garden Merit.
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