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Rhododendron Caucasicum Pictum
A great tough plant that grows well where others might struggle. With frilly pink flowers and dark blotch in a tight truss this one flowers in April. We always find this has larger roots than any other variety but it forms a neat dense domed bush. It's an old trusted variety that is ideal for hedging or screening. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Early flower and Hedging/screening.
Easy...
Rhododendron Centennial Gold
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(H6) Pale pink to yellow buds opening into trusses with 16-25 bright yellow flowers each. This plant is a yakushimanum hybrid and as such tends to have a compact mound forming habit. Dark green glossy leaves with a light brown indumentum on the underside of each. Typical height 75-100cm in ten years.
• Ideal for containers and small gardens.•...
Rhododendron Cherry Kiss
(H7) An excellent new German plant with deep red flowers and lovely dark green glossy foliage. Glowing red funnel shaped flowers with wavy edging in a neat compact truss, with contrasting almost white stamens, and cream upward pointing anthers. Late May flowering. Equally striking are the thick dark very deep glossy leaves on a handsome plant broadly upright plant. A very hardy plant, claimed to...
Rhododendron Christmas Cheer AGM
One of our favourite plants! This one is pink in bud, opening to pretty blush pink flowers that fade almost to white in a small truss. One of the first to flower in March. This variety used to be forced in the greenhouse and presented as a magnificent Christmas table decoration; hence its name! It also makes a lovely gift for anyone interested in their garden. A very dense and tough plant. Height 140-160cm...
Rhododendron cinnabarinum xanthocodon
Pretty pale or creamy yellow campanulate flowers in May and June. This plant is easily grown and has wonderful small leaves with grey green foliage. It will perform best in open light shade and it does need good drainage. Height 120cm in 10 years.
Recommended for great foliage and pretty flowers.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations as long as it has good drainage and an open site.
Habit:...
Rhododendron Cliff Garland
An excellent early flowering American hybrid with clear shell pink flowers in February - March. This plant has lovely oval deep green leaves, tinged bronze-red on the young foliage. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
We love this plant and recommend it as a modern replacement for Rhododendron Tessa. Better flowers, clearer pink, bushier habit and much tougher!
Recommended for small gardens and mixed borders....
Rhododendron Contina
Brilliant intense deep purple flowers with darker plum speckling and white stamen. Free flowering in April - May this is a very striking plant which would complement nearby yellow flowers. Nice clean foliage. Height 100-120cm in 10 years.
Recommended for small gardens and mixed borders.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations.
Habit: Upright.
Group: Rhododendron hybrid.
Parentage:...
Rhododendron Cornish Red
(H5) Cerise pink-red flowers, with numerous darker spots and a small dark blotch, in compact tight truss, during April. A tall growing 'tree like' plant of upright habit. Height 150-175cm in 10 years.
Every notable garden in Cornwall seems to grow a different version of 'Cornish Red', some better than others. After much searching, and in consultation with a number of Head Gardeners we were fortunate...
Rhododendron Cowslip AGM
Beautiful bell-shaped flowers of pale primrose yellow to cream with pinky red markings in loose trusses. Flowering in April it has rounded leaves on a compact plant. Best with some shelter. Height 80-120cm in 10 years. As with all yellow Rhododendrons, this plant does need good drainage (but not dry conditions!).
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group: williamsianum hybrid.
Parentage:...
Rhododendron Crimson Pippin
(H6) Trusses of crimson red flowers, fading to bright red. May. This plant has excellent woolly indumentum under dark leaves with silvery tomentum above. Dense round habit. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
• Ideal for front of borders and small gardens.• Easy to grow.• Group: yakushimanum.• Parentage: yakushimanum X sanguineum subsp. Sanguineum var. haemaleum• Hybridization date:...
Rhododendron Cunningham's White
Mauve buds open to white flowers with a pale yellow eye in early May. With delicate small flowers, it is a very tough dense plant which is good for screening and difficult positions. Cunninghams White is also tolerant of neutral/slightly alkaline soil. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.It certainly ranks as one of our favourites and is ideal for hedging and screening. If you have a difficult position this...
Rhododendron Cynthia AGM
A lovely old hybrid with strong rosy crimson flowers with extensive darker markings in a large conical truss. This is a popular variety flowering in May-June. It is very vigorous and grows into a huge dome shaped bush. Height 180-200cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Hedging/screening.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hardy Hybrid.
Parentage: catawbiense...
Rhododendron davidsonianum AGM EGM 149
Masses of pink to white flowers with a striking crimson blotch. It is paler in sun than shade. Very free flowering in April - May and is an absolute stunner! Height 120cm in 10 years.You will note that the collector seed number appears in the name of this plant. This identifies where the plant was collected from, when and by whom. Plant collectors carefully document where they find their seeds and...
Rhododendron davidsonianum 'Ruth Lyons' AGM
Masses of particularly fine clear pink wide funnel shaped flowers in April-May. This particular clone of davidsonianum is very free flowering. Leaves are narrow and pointed, and V shaped in profile. Height 120cm in 10 years.
Recommended for mixed borders.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations.
Habit: upright.
Group: Small Leaved Rhododendron.
Subsection: Triflora.
Introduction...
Rhododendron Debbie Dane
(H6) Deep salmon pink bell shaped flowers in late May. A selection made for its special year round foliage attraction. Deep green leaves with creamy brown indumentum underneath. Height 50-75cm in 10 years. Requires moist acid soils. Ideal for use in planters, and because 'Debbie Dane' has a small annual growth, it won't outgrow its container for several years.
• Ideal for containers.•...
Rhododendron decorum 'Greeneye'
(FORTUNEA H4-5) Excellent scented trusses of pinky-white funnel-shaped flowers with a yellow green eye. May-June. A lovely flowering selection of this vigorous small tree. Height 175-200cm in 10 years. Prefers moist acid soils, but can tolerate neutral and drier positions.
This good flowering selection was made by the late John McQuire at his 'Deer Dell' garden, and features in his esteemed 'Pocket...
Rhododendron denudatum
Introduced in 1995 when collected for the first time by Ted Millais, this is a highly prized floriferous plant, with loose bell-shaped pale rose to wine red flowers. Flowering in May, it has beautiful yellow brown indumentum on the underside of its leaves and wonderful young foliage. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.A rare plant that will be of particular interest to collectors.
Recommended for beautiful...
Rhododendron Dora Amateis AGM
Very pale pink buds open to beautiful pure white flowers with pink markings. This is a very free flowering plant in April. It is a compact grower with small palish green leaves that turn bronze if grown in sun, growing wider than tall. Height 60-80cm in 10 years. This tough plant is very adaptable, performing well in both shade and sun, but the flowers will last longer if slightly shaded.
Recommended...
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...
Rhododendron Dramatic Dark
(H6) Dark violet flowers, with purple shades in centre, a black blotch, and contrasting white stamens on a tight rounded truss in late May. A compact well branched plant. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
The fascination of this new rhododendron comes from the perfectly shaped deep dark violet flowers with purple violet centre and a black eye. The roundish truss has more than 20 open funnel-shaped flowers...
Rhododendron Dreamland AGM
This plant has very pretty pale pink flowers with darker edges, fading with a hint of creaminess. It flowers in May and has wonderful stiff green leaves with pale undersides. Height 80-100cm in 10 years. This plant is one of our most popular sellers and is consistently reliable. Highly recommended.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group: yakushimanum.
Parentage: Fabia Group...
Rhododendron English Roseum
Attractive mauvey pink flowers in May-June on a very useful easy to grow plant. It tolerates heat and cold and is a dense and vigorous grower that can get very large. An ideal plant for hedging and screening. A reliable plant for difficult places. Height 180cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Hedging/screening.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hardy Hybrid.
Parentage:...
Rhododendron Exbury Calstocker
Huge white flowers marked with a crimson blotch, in large trusses. A stunning early April flowering hybrid with impressive strong handsome looking foliage, perfect in a sheltered woodland situation. Height 180cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: stunning early white flowers.
Plantsman range.
Ideal position: Sheltered woodland.
Habit: Open.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage: calophytum (s) X...
Rhododendron Fabia Waterer
Gorgeous salmon pink bell-shaped flowers shaded orange in June which has medium-dark green leaves with a light indumentum on the underside. This is Waterer's later flowering version of Fabia which is much pinker, but extends the flowering period with the same delightful characteristics. Again best in light shade. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: pretty flowers and great foliage.
Plantsman...
Rhododendron Faggetter's Favourite AGM
Scarlet buds open to white flushed pink flower speckled bronze. Tall fragrant flower trusses in May. Shiny leaves on a compact and vigorous plant. Faggetters Favourite is best in partial shade. Height 180cm in 10 years.In America, this variety is reported to show resistance to adult vine weevil feeding.This rhododendron was grown at the famous Knaphill Nursery, Surrey. On a beam in one of the buildings...
Rhododendron Fairy Light
Rarely seen elsewhere this plant has beautiful soft-pink flowers with a pronounced salmon throat. Flowering in June it is compact with a neat rounded shape. This one performs best in partial shade to protect the blooms from strong sun. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: lovely late flower.
Plantsman range.
Ideal position: Dappled shade.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage:...
Rhododendron Fastuosum Flore Pleno AGM
Trusses of semi-double pale bluish-mauve flowers, with green-brown flare that is free flowering in late May-June. This is one of our favourites because the flowers last well, especially in some shade. It is fast growing, vigorous and ideal for hedging/screening. An excellent well mannered plant which we recommend to use instead of Rhododendron ponticum (the wild variety) which is too invasive. Height...
Rhododendron fortunei discolor AGM
Wonderful large fragrant trusses of pinky white funnel shaped flowers in June-July. This is an excellent late season tall bushy growing plant with an upright habit. It performs best in partial shade to preserve the flowers from summer sunshine. A fast growing plant that flowers after 5 years. Height 180cm in 10 years.
Recommended for lovely late scented flower.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: sheltered...
Rhododendron Fragrantissimum AGM
(H4) Our best selling tender rhododendron! Magnificent strongly scented funnel-shaped white flowers tinged pink, with a creamy yellow base. Flowering in April-May. Height 75-100cm in 10 years. A plant for sheltered positions in places like Devon and Cornwall or London courtyard gardens, where it is best planted against a wall for added protection. Also ideal in cool conservatories where the wonderful...
Rhododendron Furnivall's Daughter AGM
PLEASE NOTE THESE PLANTS ARE REDUCED DUE TO BEING EITHER A LITTLE ON THE SMALL SIDE OR HAVING FEW TO NO FLOWER BUDS.
This is a popular and very showy plant with bright pink flowers and a large strawberry red flare, in a full conical truss. It is free flowering in May to June. Height 140-160cm in 10 years. Furnivalls Daughter needs good soil conditions to perform well.
Recommended for: showy flowers.
Plantsman...
Rhododendron Geoffroy Millais
This plant has lovely white flowers flushed pink in tall conical trusses, with red spotting. It is slightly scented and flowers early to mid May. A vigorous bush with a strong upright habit. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.
Named by rhododendron expert John Guille Millais, who wrote the 2 large volume books on Rhododendrons (1917 and 1924). He named this for his son, Major Geoffroy "George" Millais who...
Rhododendron Germania
This is an outstanding plant introduced from Hobbie in Germany, with huge buds opening to deep pink flowers in a large upright truss during late May. It has an excellent habit, is tough and has large pale green rounded leaves. Tends to grow wider than it is tall. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Striking flower and great habit.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit:...
Rhododendron Gloria.
Exotic looking creamy-white flowers with striking pink and yellow shading in loose trusses. Flowering in late May, this is an excellent and very hardy German plant with a good compact habit. Height 140-160cm/150-175cm in 10 years. Also known as Bruns Gloria and Christiane.
Recommended for: Pretty flowers on a tough plant.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group:...
Rhododendron Golden Everest
(H5) Bright red buds with yellow shading opening to stunning vivid yellow bell shaped flowers with delicate reddish markings at the base of 3 dorsal lobes, in a rounded loose truss. An extraordinary flower during May-June. Good glossy dark green foliage on a plant with an upright habit. It needs a sheltered position with protection from late frosts. Height 80cm and spread 90cm in 10 years. Like all...
Rhododendron Golden Fleece
Large wide golden yellow wavy-edged flowers with a deeper centre, early May. A lovely glowing colour, which performs best in light shade. Large slightly rounded leaves, Height 150-175cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Glowing colour in light shade.
Plantsman range.
Ideal position: Sheltered woodland, dappled shade.
Habit: open bush, not dense.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage: Goldsworth...
Rhododendron Golden Wedding
Stunning dark red buds opening to chrome yellow flowers with a slight orange flush at first which fades to golden yellow. Flowering in May, this plant has well branching green foliage. A larger growing 'yak' hybrid that we think is worth growing for the wonderful flowers alone, though it can look a bit sparse at times. Height 80-120cm in 10 years. Bred in Washington, America. An ideal present for that...
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 Gomer Waterer AGM
Lovely rosy-lilac buds open to pinky-white flowers flushed mauve pink at the edges with a distinctive yellow-brown flare. This plant is a well proven older variety that flowers in early June.
It certainly ranks as one of our favourites and is ideal for hedging and screening. If you have a difficult position this is definitely the plant for you. Vigorous and tolerating sun, heat and wind and shade,...
Rhododendron Graffito
(H7) This fantastic plant was bred by Hans Hachmann in Northern Germany. It has lovely white flowers with a prominent wine red flare on the upper lobe in late May. Particularly hardy with attractive dark green glossy leaves. Height 150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Tough with dinstinctive flower and great foliage.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hybrid...
Rhododendron Gwillt King
(H4) Bright turkey red flowers in a semi-circular truss, with spotting on the dorsal lobe and deep basal nectaries. April-May flowering, and suitable for mild locations only. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
This is a really good bright red flower of quality, and performs well in sheltered positions. Densely hairy on the undersides of leaves. It has recently been exhibited at RHS Rhododendron competitions,...
Rhododendron haematodes
Wonderful scarlet crimson bell shaped flowers in a truss of 12 flowering in May. It has a distinctive dense rufous indumentum on the undersides of its leaves. Height 50-75cm in 10 years. Probably one of the best lower growing species plants that needs to be well established before it will flower. It does need good drainage and some shade. Try to avoid using too much fertilizer as this will scorch the...
Rhododendron Halfdan Lem AGM
This one is a real stunner! Huge red flowers that have darker spotting that last well in the shade but fade to pink in the sun. Flowering in May it has handsome thick dark leaves and striking red buds in the winter. It has an upright habit and prefers plenty of light. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Striking flower and red buds.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit:...
Rhododendron Hallelujah
Image gratefully supplied and owned by Marc Mertens
(H5) Rose red flowers of strong substance, in a ball-shaped truss during May. Thick textured downward pointing leaves held on a compact and dense plant. Best in light shade. Height 100-125cm in 10 years.
Parentage: The Hon. Jean-Marie Montague x KimberlyBred by: Harold Greer, USA. 1976
Rhododendron Hammondii
Lovely dainty rosy pink tubular funnel shaped flowers (25mm) with white filaments, in a compact truss. This is a very useful late flowering variety in June which has attractive dark green narrow small leaves. It forms a super neat tidy shrub. Height 75-100cm in 10 years. Also known as 'Tenellum'.
Recommended for small gardens and mixed borders. Useful to extend the flowering season.
Easy to grow.
Ideal...
Rhododendron Hampshire Belle
An absolute must for every garden with narrow pointed leaves always smothered with pretty pink flowers in May! This plant has striking foliage which looks good all year. It has purplish pink flowers, paler in the centre with a conspicuous red blotch. A very dense, upright growing shrub. Height 120-140cm in 10 years.Hampshire Belle originates from the Hillier Gardens and Arboretum near Romsey, where...
Rhododendron hemsleyanum AC1239
Beautiful fragrant white flowers sometimes tinged pink with a yellow green throat in June-August. This plant is distinctive and exotic looking with a wavy edge to the leaf (looks a bit like a small banana leaf). Height 150cm in 10 years. This is another variety that takes up to 5 years to flower but is easy and fast growing although it will need shelter from stong winds. Named after the English botanist,...
Rhododendron High Summer
Another later flowering beautiful yellow variety raised by our own Ted Millais. It has soft creamy yellow flowers in late June which always attract attention. It is best in light shade to preserve the blooms. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.As with all yellow Rhododendrons, this plant does need good drainage (but not dry conditions!).
Recommended for: Late flowers.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Dappled...
Rhododendron Hille
Showy creamy white flowers tinged pink at the edges, with prominent reddish speckling all over. This plant flowers in April so is best in a sheltered spot to protect the opening buds from frost. Height 120-150 cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Striking early flower.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage:...