Rhododendron Polar Bear AGM
- Code: HPOLAR
- Flower Colour: White
- Flowering Month: Summer
- Height After 10 Years: 175-200cm
- Interesting Foliage: No
- Scent: Scented
- Hardiness: To -15 °C
Icy white and strongly fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers with a light green throat. Flowering in July it has large veined foliage on a fast growing sturdy shrub. It does need some shelter and a warm position. Height 180 cm or more, in 10 years. Rarely available elsewhere, and highly sought-after.
- Recommended for: Later flowering and scent.
- Plantsman range.
- Ideal position: Sheltered woodland, dappled shade.
- Habit: Treelike.
- Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
- Parentage: decorum subsp. diaprepes (s) X auriculatum.
- Hybridization date: pre 1950 (1926).
- Bred by: J.B. Stevenson (Tower Court). Origin: British.
- Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6.
- RHS Hardiness Rating: H3-4.
- How we usually propagate this plant: Graft.
- Awards: RHS Award of Garden Merit.
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