Rhododendron Praecox AGM
- Code: HPRAE
- Flower Colour: Purple
- Flowering Month: Jan-Mar
- Height After 10 Years: 75-100cm
- Interesting Foliage: No
- Scent: Not Scented
- Hardiness: To -20 °C
Early rosy lilac flowers liven up the garden during February - March. A lovely historic plant with dark green shiny leaves and an upright habit. Height 80-100cm in 10 years.
Flower buds open well if cut and brought inside for indoor decoration.
A tough plant with flowers which can tolerate a few degrees of frost, so it's well worth a place within the garden, but find some shelter for best flowering. Looks stunning when planted next to Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata', which flowers at a similar time.
- Recommended for lovely early flowers.
- Easy to grow.
- Ideal position: most garden situations but needs some shelter.
- Habit: Upright.
- Group: Rhododendron hybrid.
- Parentage: ciliatum (s) X dauricum.
- Hybridization date: pre 1900 (c. 1855).
- Bred by: I. Davies. 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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