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Dwarf Rhododendron Leni
(H5) This plant has dainty Clusters of mauve-pink flowers in April/May. This is a compact mound forming variety with dark green small leaves. Height and spread is 75-90cm in 10 years, making this an excellent plant for either the front of big boarders or as a feature in smaller gardens or larger containers for the patio.
Dwarf Rhododendrons don't mind the sun but they hate too much heat, so do avoid...
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 lutescens Exbury clone
Selected clone of lutescens with larger deep primrose yellow flowers from February to April. This is an upright shrub with beautiful reddish bronze young growth. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.
Recommended for its superb early yellow flowers.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: sheltered, dappled shade.
Habit: upright.
Group: Small Leaved Rhododendron.
Subsection: Triflora.
Introduction date: pre...
Rhododendron wardii LS&T5679
This plant has lovely saucer shaped clear yellow flowers, with a wine red blotch, appearing in May to June. Wonderful blueish new growth opening to dark green oblong or oblong-oval leaves. This is definitely one of our favourites that we would highly recommend. Height 120cm in 10 years. It needs a choice position with excellent drainage to perform well.Named for Frank Kingdon Ward (1885-1958), noted...
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 Junigold
Images supplied and owned by Baumschule Hachmann
This Bright yellow flowering rhododendron is another wonderful example of the ongoing breeding happening across Europe.(H7) Salmon pink flower buds opening to bright yellow flowers with a small hint of pink in the very outer frills. Flowering in late May/early June. Unlike so many of the yellow varieties this plant offers a full flower truss typically...
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 rubiginosum Ted Millais AGM
This selection, collected by the late Ted Millais, has attractive deep pink flowers in April to May. This is an easy vigorous strong-growing shrub that will grow large in time. It has interesting small bronze green foliage and is good for windbreaks and will tolerate neutral soil. Height 150-175cm in 10 years. Ted collected this on one of his early trips to the Himalayas during the 1980's. He gave...
Rhododendron Starbright Champagne
Creamy yellow flowers with pointed star like petals. Flowering mid to late May this is an exciting hybrid which is dense and slow growing. The young growth is reddish bronze. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Unusual flowers.
Plantsman range.
Ideal position: Dappled shade, needs careful site selection.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage: 'Yaku...
Deciduous Azalea viscosum rhodanthum
Known as the 'Swamp Honeysuckle'. Beautifully scented pink honeysuckle type flowers, with darker blotches. A superb late summer flowering shrub for July and August. Good autumn foliage. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for wonderful late fragrant flower.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations, with some shade.
Habit: upright.
Group: Deciduous Azalea.
Subsection: Pentanthera.
Introduction...
Rhododendron cinnabarinum BL&M 234 'Roylei'
Wonderful profusion of pendant tubular red to plum crimson flowers in May and June. This plant has superb bluey-grey young foliage. Best in partial shade and it does need an open situation to allow lots of air circulation but also must be protected from frost. Height 120cm in 10 years.
The painting is by Walter Hood Fitch, who re-worked Hooker's original field sketch. It appears in Hooker's landmark...
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:...
Rhododendron Yellow Saucer
(H5) Orange red buds open to flat faced flowers of brilliant yellow flowers, with vivid red spotting on the upper lobe and around the ovary in the centre of the flower. A choice American hybrid with a compact habit, budding up and flowering in early May from a young age. Height 100-125cm in 10 years.
• Ideal for front of borders and small gardens.• Easy to grow.• Group: yakushimanum...
Evergreen Azalea serpyllifolium albiflorum
(H6) A rare plant with single small white flowers at the ends of wiry little branches, in May. A quaint and pretty little shrub from Southern Japan, with small leaves. Height 25-50cm in 10 years.
Low evergreen azalea, though mainly deciduous in winter. It grows to 75cm high, with slender stems covered with appressed, linear, dark brown bristles, that point towards the end of the shoot. Leaves narrowly...
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 Nobleanum Album
Early pure white flowers in a small rounded truss. This is a dense bush which flowers any time from January to March often flowering again after frosts to welcome in the spring. The narrow leaves have a thin layer of silvery indumentum. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Early flower.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage:...
Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood' AGM
A strong growing, upright tree, with rich purple, palmate foliage which maintains its colour well all season. Bright red autumn colour. Expected height is 200cm in 10 years.
Rhododendron Award
What a great plant! It has fragrant pinky white flowers that have a light yellow flare which open subtly to almost pure white with green spots. It forms a wide ball shaped truss in May. The foliage has fabulous bronzey young growth. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.This plant stole the show at our gold medal winning RHS Chelsea Flower Show exhibit in 2009. It proved very popular at the show and we absolutely...
Rhododendron campanulatum
Attractive white, pale rose or lilac flowers, in loose but fairly compact trusses. Flowering in April and May it has lovely glossy leaves up to 18cm long with a continuous fawn/rusty brown indumentum underneath. It makes a fine shrub/small tree. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for outstanding foliage.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: needs careful site selection, good drainage and not too...
Dwarf Rhododendron Lavendula
(H5) Large deep lavender frilly flowers with darker spots, flowering in April. Dark green, highly scented, leaves turn bronze in winter. Very tough compact growing plant bred in Northern Germany. Height 50-75cm in 10 years. Requires moist acid soil.
• Recommended for: small gardens.• Easy to grow.• Ideal position: Sun or partial shade.• Habit: Shrub.• Group: Dwarf Rhododendron...
Rhododendron (yak) Laura INKARHO
Good pure yellow flowers without any markings on a compact and neat growing yakushimanum hybrid flowering in May. Raised in Germany this is a tough plant that will take any UK weather. Yellow yakushimanum varieties are rare, but this variety is certainly worth a try. Height 100-125cm in 10 years. As with all yellow Rhododendrons, this plant does need good drainage (but not dry conditions!). Plant...
Rhododendron Buffalo
Image supplied and owned by Schnupper
(H7) Pinky yellow in bud opening to bright lemon yellow flowers with faint red spots on the upper lobe in early May. Each truss is made up of approximately 15 individual flowers which are held in a tight ball. The foliage on this plant is a lovely blue-green colour when it first opens before turning dark green in the autumn. Slightly wider than tall habit but...
Rhododendron ambiguum 'Jane Banks'
Clear primrose yellow flowers with greenish spots on the upper lobes in April - May. It is a tough, close growing shrub with a bushy upright habit and attractive small glossy leaves with glaucous scaly underside. A delightful plant that can be pruned hard after flowering. Height 100-120cm in 10 years.
R. ambiguum Jane Banks is a good clone raised at Hergest Croft Gardens in Herefordshire, which was...
Acer palmatum 'Trompenburg' AGM
Deep purple foliage which curls downwards at the edges. Will take full sun without burning. Foliage slowly turns deep reddish green, and then a rich crimson in the autumn. A strong, fast growing small tree with an open habit. Named after the beautiful Trompenburg arboretum in Rotterdam. Expected height is 200cm in 10 years.
Evergreen Azalea Panda AGM
Pure white flowers completely smother this neat little mound of a plant in May. Bred in Scotland and very hardy, it is slow growing, but one of the best dwarf white azaleas. Sometimes semi-deciduous. Height 40-60cm in 10 years.
Ideal for small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (N. European hybrid).
Parentage: 'Everest' X kiusianum white.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1973).
Bred...
Rhododendron Special Dane
(H6) Pure white flowers in a neat dome shaped truss during May, on a plant with wonderful foliage. Silver new growth in June turns light brown contrasting with the darker older leaves. Height 125 -150cm in 10 years.
Another wonderful 'Dane' series rhododendron noted for their excellent foliage, and raised by Svend Hansen in Denmark. The parents of this one are 2 great foliage species, R. bureavii...
Rhododendron tsariense
Gorgeous pinky white flowers with crimson spotting in April. A rare plant with superb foliage that has dense rufous indumentum on the lower leaf surface and sometimes on the upper surface. A lovely compact slow growing plant that needs good drainage to perform well. Avoid using fertilizer with this plant. Height 40-50cm in 10 years.
Ideal for small gardens.
Plantsman range.
Ideal position: sheltered...
Deciduous Azalea flammeum
(H5) Flame coloured flowers from orange to scarlet, long staemens and style, in rounded trusses of 6-11.
Hardy and free flowering.
Flowering time: May
From Georgia and South Carolina.
Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Not suitable for cool summers
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea.
Parentage: unknown.
Habit: upright.
Ideal position: Heat and sun tolerant.
Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6.
RHS...
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.•...
Magnolia Galaxy AGM
Striking purple pink to red slightly scented flowers in mid to late spring make a stunning statement in the garden. This plant makes a wonderful small to medium sized deciduous tree, initially upright in habit, but maturing to a pyramidal shape. Magnolia liliiflora has been hybridized with many species and has produced fantastic results. William Kosar of the US National Arboretum raised this Magnolia...
Rhododendron montroseanum
Beautiful pink flowers with a crimson blotch flowering in March. This is a wonderful foliage plant for milder gardens with dark green shiny leaves up to 45cm long with whitish indumentum on the underside. Young growth is particularly attractive. Height 150cm in 10 years. Please note this is one of the more tender of the large leaved species and really does need good shelter from wind and cold.Named...
Rhododendron Brasilia INKARHO
(H7) Rose pink flowers, with peachy orange and yellow shading in May. A compact growing hardy plant from Germany. Height 100-125cm in 10 years.
Plant with plenty of good ericaceous compost to aid establishment.
Recommended for: Tough and reliable variety.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage: (‘Omega' x wardii) x (wardii...
Deciduous Azalea Sea of Stars
Beautiful scented honeysuckle type flowers, pink in bud opening to white. Late June and July flowering, set off by stunning blue foliage all growing season. Prefers shade to preserve the blooms. Grown at Crosswater Farm by the late Ted Millais. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for late flower and lovely fragrance.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (viscosum hybrid).
Parentage: selection...
Rhododendron Princess Alice FCC
(H4) Lovely scented white flowers, flushed pink on the outside. April-May flowering, on a plant with low growing habit. A tender variety best grown in a sheltered garden or cool conservatory. Height 75-100cm in 10 years. Best in moist well drained compost.
Recommended for the cool conservatory and its lovely scented flowers.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: sheltered position in the garden or in...
Deciduous Azalea Westminster
Lovely almond pink fragrant flowers with a faint orange flare. This is a really attractive plant flowering in May - June that deserves a place in any garden. Height 140-160cm in 10 years. It prefers a fairly sunny position.
Recommended for super scented flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Occidentale hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: unknown, but before 1958.
Bred...
Rhododendron Sir Charles Butler
Stunning fragrant blush white funnel shaped flowers in May. It forms a large plant, but needs protecting from cold wind and the worst frosts. A wonderful fast growing plant that flowers after 5 years. Height 180cm in 10 years.
Recommended for lovely scented flower.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: sheltered woodland.
Habit: upright, tree-like.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage: unknown, probably...
Elixir Gardens Sulphur Chips
Description taken from suppliers website:
Sulphur Chips gives your ericaceous plants the ideal soil pH and conditions to grow properly. They come in the form of an easy to scatter chip grade Sulphur. Many ericaceous plants will not grow, or will show signs of trace element deficiencies if the soil is not ideal for that plant. Most common ericaceous (lime-hating) plants will not grow in limey soils....
Rhododendron Yaku Angel
(H5) Pink in bud, opening to trusses of white flowers with light brown spotting during early May. Deep green leaves with a tan indumentum on the underside, and white tomentum on the new upper surfaces. A neat growing compact plant, growing wider than taller with lovely foliage. Height 75-100cm in 10 years.
• Ideal for containers and small gardens.• Interesting foliage.• Group: yakushimanum...
Rhododendron April Rose
Images Supplied and Owned by Roland Kersten, Fleurolex Vitroplant production srl
(H6) Clusters of three to four lightly fragrant, double pink flowers in mid-spring. This semi-evergreen shrub reaches approximately 1 meter in height and exhibits a compact, branching growth habit. It features small, elliptic deep green leaves that develop a reddish-bronze hue in autumn. Requires a sheltered position,...
Rhododendron wasonii
Pretty yellow or pinky-white flowers with light spotting in April - May. This plant has ovate-lanceolate leaves with reddish brown indumentum on the lower surface. An attractive compact plant that is easy to grow. Height 40-60 cm in 10 years.
Recommended for excellent foliage.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations but it does need excellent drainage.
Habit: compact.
Group: Species...
Rhododendron (yak) Red Star (Bohlkens Roter Stern) INKARHO
(H6) Deep red buds opening to rich red flowers with a lighter centre in mid May.This lovely compact variety has deep matt green leaves and grows to be 90 – 125cm in 10 years. Plant with a good ericaceous compost. Requires moist free draining soil.
• Easy to grow.• Ideal position: Most garden situations• Habit: Dense.• Group: Hybrid.• Parentage: Anushka x Collective...
Rhododendron Actress
(H3) Scented white flowers, stained red on the outside about 3 flowers per truss in April. Tender, so plant in sheltered spot or cool greenhouse. Prune hard after flowering. Height 75-100cm in 10 years.
This plant was recommended to us by Jim Gardiner, former Curator at Wisley, and Vice President of the RHS, who grew this at his house and kindly gave us some cuttings.
Raised by General Eric Harrison...
Evergreen Azalea kiusianum 'Hillier's Pink' AGM
Extremely attractive clear lilac pink flowers in May. Semi-dwarf prostrate plant from Japan which often loses leaves in winter but is very hardy. Height 45-60cm in 10 years.
kiusianum is one of the most common native azaleas of Japan and is treated as a species. This is a wonderful pink flowered clone hybridized by Hilliers Nursery.
Ideal for cascading over walls .
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen...
Rhododendron Pink Cherub AGM
Like it's name, this plant is a real cherub. Stunning red buds open to slightly frilled pink flowers with a deeper pink edging and speckles. The flowers fade to pale pink from mid to late May. An upright, vigorous but compact plant which is one of our favourites. Height 100cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group: yakushimanum.
Parentage: yakushimanum X Doncaster
Hybridization...
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 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 King's Ride
(H5) A neat domed truss of white bell shaped flowers, speckled brown and flushed purple-pink when young. Late May. A lovely and really choice foliage plant raised at Windsor Park, which looks good all year, with whitish tormentum in summer on the upper surfaces, turning glossy dark green in winter. Height 75-100cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group: Yakushimanum.
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Dwarf Rhododendron Shamrock
Image supplied and owned by Osberton Nurseries
(H6) Trusses holding between 5 to 9 funnel shaped pale-yellow flowers in April/May. A neat compact variety with a spreading habit great for front of boarders or pots. Prefers a sheltered position in full sun to partial shade. Height & width 50-75cm in years. Requires moist acid soil.
Dwarf Rhododendrons don't mind the sun, but they hate too much...