Millais Nurseries
Big Leaved Rhododendrons
Wonderful architectural plants with huge leaves up to 60cm long! These are choice woodland Rhododendrons needing the very best sheltered positions to allow them to grow to their full stature of up to 5 metres. As a bonus, flowering will typically start after 6 years.
Big leaved Rhododendrons are among the more tender of our range, but are well worth trying if you have the correct conditions. They are best suited to sheltered woodland in the milder regions of the UK, though they can also be used as feature plants in sheltered courtyard gardens. Winter protection is recommended for young plants.
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 macabeanum AGM
This is one of the finest big leaved Rhododendrons for sheltered gardens. Huge yellow flowers often blotched purple with bright red stigma in trusses of up to 30 flowers flowering in April. The huge shiny leaves (up to 38cm long x 20cm across) have a wonderful thick woolly fawn indumentum on the underside. It has distinctive silvery young growth with lovely bright red bud scales. Probably one of the...
Rhododendron macabeanum AGM (Second's)
Please note these have been reduced as they are not first grade, they have crinkled and or marked leaves. Please see 2nd photo for representation.
This is one of the finest big leaved Rhododendrons for sheltered gardens. Huge yellow flowers often blotched purple with bright red stigma in trusses of up to 30 flowers flowering in April. The huge shiny leaves (up to 38cm long x 20cm across) have a wonderful...
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 rex AGM (Second's)
Please note these have been reduced as they are not first grade, they have crinkled and or marked leaves. Please see 2nd photo for representation.
Wonderful pale rose or white flowers with a crimson blotch in April-May on a plant that will eventually make a small tree. One of our favourites, it has 30-40cm shiny dark green leaves with a pale buff woolly indumentum beneath. Height 150-180cm in 10 years....
Rhododendron sinofalconeri (Hybrid)
(H5) Beautiful pale or rich yellow flowers in April. This species is proving surprisingly hardy in UK gardens. A handsome species with pale indumentum on the underside of the large leaves (up to 28cm long) and distinctive conical buds on young growth. Height 150cm in 10 years.
Big leaf Rhododendron species have great architectural foliage which looks stunning in a woodland glade or city courtyard...
Rhododendron sinogrande AGM (Second's)
Please note these have been reduced as they are not first grade, they have crinkled and or marked leaves. Please see 2nd photo for representation.
Massive creamy yellow flowers with crimson blotch in trusses of 15 to 20cm in size. This one is worth growing for its architectural foliage alone! The large leaves are up to 75cm long and are shiny and dark green on hte upper surface, with a shiny silvery...
Rhododendron suoilenhense (seedlings from AC 4458)
Picture of a 3 litre plant for illustrative purposes only
(GRANDIA H4-5) Recently collected from Vietnam. Creamy white campanulate flowers with maroon basal flashes, in a rounded truss, April. Large foliage with indumentum on older leaves. Early intoductions to the UK have produced tall, majestic and fast growing trees when grown in good conditions. Full hardiness is not confirmed yet, but it seems...
Rhododendron Whidbey Island
This is a superb recent American introduction with wonderful big leaf foliage. It has pale purple flowers with a deeper edging and a dark blotch. Flowering in April, it has silvery young growth, with a wonderful tan indumentum on the underside of the leaves. It does need some wind shelter but it makes a wonderful plant of upright habit. Height 150cm in 10 years, then taller.
Raised at Meerkerk Rhododendron...