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Rhododendron Mrs A .T. de la Mare AGM
This is a super plant with blush pink buds that open to fragrant white frilled flowers with green spotting. Flowering in May with good glossy foliage Mrs A T de la Mare is an excellent hardy plant with an upright spreading habit. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Pure white scented flower on a tough plant.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Can become tree-like.
Group:...
Rhododendron Old Port
PLEASE NOTE THESE PLANTS ARE REDUCED DUE TO BEING EITHER A LITTLE ON THE SMALL SIDE OR HAVING FEW TO NO FLOWER BUDS.
Extremely attractive medium reddish purple flowers with a deep blotch flowering in late May. This is a vigorous old hybrid with good glossy leaves. Height 150-180 cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Striking flower and great foliage.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit:...
Evergreen Azalea Flower Arranger
Large, soft lilac semi-double flowers with a fluted edge in May up to 40mm. This is an excellent plant with a compact neat habit. Height 50-65cm in 10 years. It does like a sheltered position.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (Hyde hybrid).
Parentage: Unknown.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (late 1960's).
Bred by: W.G.T. Hyde. Origin: British.
Habit:...
Rhododendron Tibet
Tibet is a gorgeous compact neat growing plant with pink buds that open into pure sparkling white bell-shaped flowers in April. A williamsianum hybrid with attractive rounded foliage with deep-green leaves. Height 80-100cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group: williamsianum.
Parentage: 'Bismarck' (s) X williamsianum.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1966)
Bred...
Rhododendron Caruso
(H5) Large vibrant pink full trusses made of 12 flowers, approximatley 15cm across. Richer pink towards the edges and on the back of each flower, they also contain darker red markings which turn orange in the throat. Flowering in early May. This plant has lovely dark glossy green foliage on a compact habit. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
• Recommended for: Tough variety.• Ideal position:...
Evergreen Azalea Martha Hitchcock
(H6) Distinctive huge deep pink-purple flowers with a prominent paler pink centre and darker spotting on the upper lobes. Really striking 75mm wide flowers during May, sometimes only magenta, and with or without the darker spotting. This azalea has an open spreading habit, and can be a little shy in flowering when young. Given warmer summer conditions, it is an excellent performer and well worth growing....
Magnolia stellata 'Waterlily' AGM
A selected form of Magnolia stellata with large pure white star-shaped scented flowers March and April. A slow growing shrub which rarely exceeds 3m in height. Protect from late spring frosts when young.
Rhododendron Midnight Beauty
(H6) Almost black buds open to dark burgundy red flowers with a darker blotch and wavy edges. Cream coloured anthers add extra interest. Height 150-175cm in 10 years.
• Recommended for: Tough variety and stunning colour.• Easy to grow.• Ideal position: Dappled shade in most garden situations.• Habit: Can be thin so plant with other Rhododendrons.• Group: Hardy Hybrid.•...
Pieris japonica Little Heath
(H5) Pink flowers in spring on a neat compact growing plant with small variegated leaves, cream edging, pink new growth.
Flowers best in a light airey position.
Ideal for patio pots.
Height 100-125cm in 10 years.
Requires moist acid soil.
Rhododendron Blue Print
(H6) An interesting two tone purple and white flower from mid May - early June. The main bulk of the flower is purple with a white star shaped centre which darks to purple as the flowers age. Each individual flower has faint speckling in the upper lobe. This plant grows to form a dense mound of bottle green foliage. The new stems and leaf petioles open a dark purplish red before turning green over...
Rhododendron Silbervelours
**** Launched at Chelsea Flower Show 2019****
(H5) Rounded trusses of pale pink, fading to cream with yellow green spotting in a truss of 14-16. Late April-May. A wonderful foliage plant with beautiful silvery white new growth for most of the season, with yellowy thick wooly indumentum on the undersides all summer, especially in full sun. Excellent habit. Height 100-125cm in 10 years.
• Compact...
Rhododendron campanulatum aeruginosum
A rare, low growing form with purple pink flowers in April. Chiefly remarkable for its intense shiny green foliage with a bluish metallic bloom and an interesting silky buff indumentum on the underside. This is a choice plant that is slow to flower, but well worth the wait! Height 50-60cm in 10 years.
The lithograph is by Walter Hood Fitch. It is based on a sketch by Joseph Dalton Hooker whilst in...
Rhododendron Apricot Belle
(H5) Another interesting hybrid raised by the late Ted Millais who succeeded in breeding this R. cinnabarinum xanthocodon hybrid which is resistant to the powdery mildew and is hardier than previous clones. The buds are a deep apricot colour, opening to attractive creamy bell shaped flowers in May. Interesting glaucous foliage on a bushy plant about 75-100cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Its interesting...
Calycanthus Venus
(H5) Large scented creamy-white Magnolia type flowers with yellow and purple central markings from late Spring to early summer. Deciduous multi-stemmed shrub with glossy green leaves that turn yellow-brown in autumn. Height 200-400cm in 10 years.
Calycanthus are deciduous shrubs with simple, aromatic leaves and solitary, fragrant flowers in summer.
Also known as × Sinocalycalycanthus 'Venus'
Rhododendron Goldika
Extremely attractive large bright yellow flowers with a showy red eye in late May and early June. This plant has bright green oval leaves. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.As with all yellow Rhododendrons, this plant does need good drainage (but not dry conditions!).
Recommended for: stunning yellow flowers.
Plantsman range.
Ideal position: Dappled shade, needs careful site selection.
Habit: Open.
Group:...
Rhododendron Beau Brummell
Flowering late in June, this plant has excellent late scarlet red, waxy flowers with darker speckling. It is certainly eye-catching and the flowers form a spectacular ball-shaped truss and lovely matt green foliage. It will perform best in light shade. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.It certainly ranks as one of our favourites and is ideal for hedging and screening.
Recommended for: Hedging/screening...
Rhododendron Ilam Violet
Wonderful deep violet blue flowers in compact clusters flowering in April-May. These flowers really glow on the plant! The lovely reddish young aromatic leaves turn lettuce green in summer, then bronze in winter. The plant is best in light shade. Height 80-100cm in 10 years.
Recommended for small gardens and mixed borders with great foliage
Easy to grow
Ideal position: most garden situations but...
Kalmia latifolia 'Olympic Fire'
Rich red buds opening to soft pink almost white octagonal flowers in late May early June. This variety has a slightly more upright habit than some. The new foliage is a glossy green with a slight wave to the edge of the leaves.
Kalmias are a medium sized evergreen shrub from south-eastern USA and Asian mountains where they typically grow under the canopy of tall trees. They are an under used shrub...
Rhododendron Paola
(H6) Wonderful soft pink flowers with darker reddy-brown centres, opening in late May/early June with dark green matt foliage. This variety forms a dense compact plant growing wider than high. 125-150cm in ten years. Once again, its compact habit makes this plant ideal for middle of large boarders or perfect for the smaller modern garden.
• Recommended for: Smaller modern Gardens.• Easy...
Dwarf Rhododendron calostrotum keleticum AGM
(SALUENENSIA H6) A real dwarf gem with flatish crimson-purple flowers held above the foliage in May and June. Deep green shiny leaves forming a low mounded shrub. Height up to 30cm in 10 years. Dwarf Rhododendrons don't mind the sun but they hate too much heat, so do avoid reflected heat from South facing walls and patios, particularly if planting in containers.
Recommended for containers, rock...
Rhododendron Claudine
(H7) Frilled, pink flowers, paler at the edges, and darker in the centre, with reddish speckling on the upper petal. Late May - early June. A hardy variety which grows wider than tall. Height 120cm in 10 years.
• Recommended for: Tough variety, Hedging and Screening, later flowers• Ideal position: Dappled shade in most garden situations.• Habit: Bushy.• Group: Hardy Hybrid.•...
Rhododendron Picobello
(H7) Each flower truss is made up of 11 pure white flowers with a deep red blotch on the upper lobe. Wavy dark green foliage with a broad compact rounded habit. A very hardy plant, flowering in late May - early June. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
• Recommended for: Middle of the boarder height• Easy to grow.• Ideal position: Most garden situations.• Habit: Dense mound.• Group:...
Deciduous Azalea White Lights AGM
Masses of small white flowers with faint golden markings. Scented and very hardy, flowering in May, this is a lovely deciduous azalea that has a rounded habit. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for beautiful scented flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Northern lights hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1969).
Bred by: H. Pellett. Origin: American.
Habit:...
Rhododendron Silver Copper
NEW! Masses of pinky-white frilly flowers with a dark red blotch in the centre, flowering in May. The plant is named for its wonderful new foliage during the summer months. The new growth in June and July is covered in a bright silvery tomentum (powdery coating) which turns a copper colour before washing off in autumn rains to reveal dark green leaves during the winter months. The leaf undersides are...
Deciduous Azalea Helena Evelyn
(H6) Rich sugar pink 'Homebush' hybrid. Grows best in light dappled shade or full sun. This is a doubled flowered plant of excellent quality and a lovely shade of pink. Height 150cm in 10 years.
One of 4 lovely 'Homebush' hybrids bred by noted New Forest Azalea breeder George Hyde, who bred the Solent strain of Azaleas for Exbury Gardens. We have propagated these exclusively from the garden of his...
Deciduous Azalea Doloroso
(H6) Vivid orange-red flowers, with a paler dorsal lobe and frilly edging. Late May-early June. Flowers do not fade in sun but will last longer when dappled. Compact habit. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Ideal for mixed borders.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea.
Parentage: Knap Hill Red x Knighthood X Cecile x Gibraltar.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1971), Registered 1988
Bred by: Hans...
Evergreen Azalea Dearest
A lovely looking Azalea with large rich pink flowers and darker markings, flowering in Mid May. The perfect gift for any occasion! Slightly tender, so best in sheltered positions. Height 50-75cm in 10 years.
Raised by noted New Forest Azalea breeder, George Hyde, and recently named by his daughter Rosemary Legrand.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (Hyde...
Acer palmatum 'Bi-Hoo'
New leaves have tints of pink as they emerge in spring, then green summer leaves turn gold to red in autumn. Handsome yellow and orange winter stems. Best in sun or light shade. Forms a small tree or large shrub 2-4 m tall in 10 years.
With the colourful winter stems, Acer palmatum 'Bi-hoo' is an eye-catching plant all year and grows to be a large shrub or very small tree in time. It is best in...
Rhododendron Karl Naue
(H6) Strong red flowers in a domed truss, with dark red spotting on dorsal lobe, and prominent white filaments. Mid May-June flowering, set off with good dark green foliage. A tough plant from Hachmann, in Northern Germany. Height 150-175cm in 10 years. Requires moist acid soils.
Introduced: Holger Hachmann 2007Etymology: named for the 71st birthday of the head of the Dittersdorf Baumschulen, Amtsberg...
Rhododendron trichanthum 'Honey Wood'
This excellent selection has striking deep purple flowers with green mottling, paler in the throat, and reddish purple on the outside. Flowering in June this is a bushy plant with interesting small hairy leaves and stems. This selection was grown by J.B. Stevenson and introduced by A.E. Hardy in 1969. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.
Recommended for lovely late flower to extend the season.
Easy to...
Deciduous Azalea calendulaceum 'Orange Red'
(H6) 'Flame Azalea'. Beautiful orange red flowers. May - June. Good Autumn colour. From North Carolina, USA. Height 120-150cm in 10 years. Requires fairly sunny position.
Recommended for ease to grow and glowing flowers.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations, likes some sun.
Habit: upright.
Group: Deciduous Azalea.
Subsection: Pentanthera.
Introduction date: 1750.
Species...
Deciduous Azalea Rumba
(H6) This deciduous azalea has bright vivid orange flowers which start to open in May and continue well into June helping to extend the flowering season for the orange deciduous azaleas.The new leaves emerge green with a red hue around the margins before turning golden orange and crimson red in the autumn months. This plant grows to be around 1.5m high and 1.2m wide and prefers to be in a sunny spot.
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Evergreen Azalea Tit Willow
Pretty small (30mm) lavender flowers with slight speckling and long white stamens. This plant flowers in April and May with a broad habit. Height 50-75cm in 10 years.
As a young plant, it can look a bit sparse after winter, but it always bushes up well in the spring and it develops into a dense plant after a year or two. A lovely colour!
Ideal for mixed borders and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:...
Hydrangea quercifolia Snowflake AGM
A striking form of oak leaved hydrangea in which several series of bracts are on each flower giving double appearance. Large white florets in late summer, with great autumn colour. Height 1.5m in 10 years. Best on moist acidic soils.
Rhododendron Dr H.C. Dresselhuys
(H6) Conical truss of purplish crimson red, funnel shaped flowers, in late May early June. Like most reds the flowers do better in a shadier spot. This plant is very fast growing with dark green foliage easily reaching 180-200cm in 10 years given the right conditions.
• Recommended for: Tough fast-growing variety• Ideal position: Dappled shade.• Habit: Bushy.• Group: Hardy Hybrid.•...
Deciduous Azalea Knaphill Apricot
Extremely attractive large apricot yellow flowers in early to mid May. This plant is an unusual colour which always attracts interest. Height 150-180cm in years. Requires a fairly sunny position.
Recommended for lovely flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Knaphill hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1950).
Bred by: Waterer (Bagshot). Origin: British.
Habit:...
Rhododendron Gartendirektor Glocker
(H6) Rose red bell shaped flowers, with darker margins in a small truss. April-May. Curious downward curved leaves, bronzey when young. Tolerates full sun well. This is a very hardy plant from Hobbie Nurseries, in Northern Germany. Height 75-100cm in 10 years.
• Ideal for small gardens.• Easy to grow.• Group: williamsianum hybrid.• Parentage: Doncaster x williamsianum.•...
Rhododendron degronianum heptamerum 'Oki Koki'
(PONTICA H4) Pink in bud, opening to white flowers with a deeper lining in a dense truss during April-May. A tough, neat growing plant forming a dome shape, with dark recurved leaves (130-180 x 40-55mm) and fawn indumentum on the undersides. Height 75-100cm in 10 years.
This plant was selected and named by David Millais from a batch of seed kindly sent by botanist Yuji Kurashige, who collected...
Rhododendron Rusty Dane
Pink buds open to pure white flowers, mid to late May. A wonderful foliage selection which looks good all year, with cream indumentum on the new leaves turning rusty reddish brown, and thickly felted on the lower surface as they mature. Height and spread is 50-75cm in 10 years with a broad habit.
Another great Danish foliage selection from Svend Hansen, using the species parents R. bureavii x R....
Hydrangea quercifolia Alice
Large pointed panicles of single white flowers, turning pink as they age in summer. Vigorous form of oak leaved hydrangea with lobed deep green leaves, turning red and purple in autumn. Height 150-175cm in 10 years. Best in sun or light shade.
Rhododendron Brigitte
PLEASE NOTE THESE PLANTS ARE REDUCED DUE TO BEING EITHER A LITTLE ON THE SMALL SIDE OR HAVING FEW TO NO FLOWER BUDS.
Very pretty pale pink flowers with a darker pink edge in late May and early June. This plant has fine shiny foliage and has a compact habit, growing wider than tall. Height 100-120cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Pretty flowers and good foliage.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position:...
Rhododendron Dormouse
This delightful plant has delicate pink, two-toned bell-shaped flowers, that are deeper pink on the outside. Flowering in April. This is a great example of a williamsianum hybrid with lovely rounded leaves and attractive copper coloured young foliage in summer. Height 80-100cm in 10 years. We love this plant for it's unusual round leaves and fabulous young foliage. It's a real winner.
Ideal for...
Deciduous Azalea Goldtopas
(H6) Fantastic large bright golden yellow flower, with a deeper blotch. This is a Silver Medal plant raised by Hans Hachmann in Germany, and is very tough. Large flowers up to 70mm across on a truss of 5 to 7 with good autumn foliage colours. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended as one of the best bright yellow azaleas.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Exbury hybrid).
Parentage: 'Cecile'...
Pieris Katsura
(H5) Rosy pink flowers in February and March. Outstanding new plant from Japan with deep bronze new foliage through the year. Best in light shade. Height 125-150cm in 10 years. Requires moist acid soil.
Calycanthus Aphrodite
12 litre plant shown in second photo
(H5) Deep red fragrant flowers tipped with cream, are borne from late spring and into summer. Glossy leaves, turn yellow with good autumn colour. A multi-stemmed shrub with upright arching branches. Height 150-175cm in 10 years. Best in sheltered sun or shade.
Aphrodite' is a multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub with Magnolia like flowers up to 10cm in diameter.
Calycanthus...
Acer palmatum 'Orange Dream' AGM
Large slender upright shrub with bright orange yellow foliage in the spring. Similar to Katsura, but with intense long lasting spring colour. Autumn colour of bright yellow gold. Expected height is 200cm in 10 years.
Magnolia liliiflora 'Nigra' AGM
Dark purple buds open to dark red purple flowers, paler inside, in late April to May. A slow growing, multi stemmed shrub. Height 150-175cm in 10 years.
Best in moist acid soils, but will tolerate neutral soils with good organic content.