Rhododendron Sir Charles Lemon AGM
- Code: HSIRCL
- Flower Colour: White
- Flowering Month: April
- Height After 10 Years: 150-175cm
- Interesting Foliage: No
- Scent: Not Scented
- Hardiness: To -20 °C
This plant is an absolute must for every woodland garden. It has ivory white flowers in April and makes a wonderful large upright shrub/tree. It has a distinctive cinnamon/rust indumentum on the underside of the leaves. It does need protection from sun. Height 150cm in 10 years.
- Recommended for: one of the best hybrids for foliage.
- Plantsman range.
- Ideal position: Sheltered woodland, dappled shade.
- Habit: Treelike.
- Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
- Parentage: derived from arboreum, perhaps a selection from subsp. cinnamomeum. We think raised from seed sent by Sir Joesph Hooker at Carclew.
- Hybridization date: pre 1950 (before 1918).
- Bred by: J. Hooker. Origin: British.
- Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6.
- RHS Hardiness Rating: H4.
- How we usually propagate this plant: Cutting.
- Awards: RHS Award of Garden Merit.
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