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Rhododendron Muncaster Mist
(H4) Lovely pale lavender flowers, fading to white in the centre of each petal, with a crimson throat and slight speckling on the upper petal. Mid to late April flowering. Height 150cm in 10 years.
Rhododendron Nobleanum Red
(H5) Early red flowers in a small rounded truss. A dense bush which flowers any time from January to March, often flowering again after frosts to welcome in the spring. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Early flower.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage: caucasicum(s) X arboreum.
Hybridization date: pre 1900...
Rhododendron Nofretete
(H6) Bright red flowers, white in the throat, with red-brown spotting on the dorsal lobe, fading paler with age in May. A great foliage plant, neat habit. Bred Bruns (Germany) 1961. Height 100-125cm in 10 years.
• Ideal for containers and small gardens.• Easy to grow.• Parentage: ‘El Alamein’ (s) X insigne.• Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1961).• Bred by: W. Bruns....
Rhododendron Nova Zembla
Wonderful dark red flowers with darker spotting during late May to early June. These can fade to deep pink in strong sun. Great dark green foliage on a sturdy upright plant. Good for hedging and screening. It is also heat and sun tolerant, and very hardy. Height 150-175cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Hedging/screening.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group:...
Rhododendron Nova Zembla INKARHO
Now available on the Inkarho rootstock! Wonderful dark red flowers with darker spotting during late May to early June. These can fade to deep pink in strong sun, so best planted in dappled shade to preserve the colour. Great dark green foliage on a sturdy upright plant. Good for hedging and screening. It is also heat and sun tolerant, and very hardy. Height 150-175cm in 10 years.Plant with plenty of...
Rhododendron ochraceum C&H 7042 AGM
This is a rare plant recently introduced from Sichuan and Yunnan where it grows in thickets, forest, cliffs and on boulders. It has large freely produced rich or dark red bell shaped flowers during April-May. An interesting pale brown indumentum covers the lower leaf surface. We think it is probably one of the best new introductions of recent years, this one collected by Cox and Hutchinson. Likely...
Rhododendron Old Port
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: Dense.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage: catawbiense hybrid.
Hybridization date: pre 1900 ( before...
Rhododendron oreotrephes 'Pentland' AGM
Wonderful clone with deep mauve flowers with a paler centre in April-May. A very desirable species with beautiful sea-green foliage which is highly recommended. This selection was obtained from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh by Peter Cox and introduced in 1990. R. oreotrephes Pentland has a tidy upright habit. Height 75-100cm in 10 years.
Recommended for wonderful foliage.
Easy to grow.
Ideal...
Rhododendron pachysanthum 'Crosswater' AGM
A superb foliage plant with silvery blue covering (tomentum) on the upper leaf surface, and tan wooly indumentum underneath the leaves that is silvery white on the young growth. Distinctive leaves and free flowering pinky white flowers spotted red or green in April and early May form a neat rounded truss. Originally collected from Taiwan, our pachysanthum Crosswater clone is recognised as one of the...
Rhododendron pachytrichum 'Sesame'
This selection has lovely white bell shaped flowers that are tinged purple in March and April. It has noticable brown shaggy hairs on young branchlets and petioles. pachytrichum Sesame is easy to grow but it's early young growth and flowers may need shelter from cold wind and frosts. Height 120 cm in 10 years.
Recommended for distinctive foliage and stunning early flowers.
Easy to grow.
Ideal...
Rhododendron parmulatum KW 5876
An interesting plant that varies in flower from white, yellow or red, sometimes bicolour and heavily spotted. Flowering anytime from March to May it has distinctive rugulose (wrickled) leaves. A rare species for the collector, which requires careful growing. Height 40cm in 10 years. It dislikes fertilizer and will scorch easily. You will note that the collector seed number appears in the name of this...
Rhododendron Penheale Blue AGM
Stunning bright violet blue flowers, flushed red, that appear in profusion in April. Pale green young growth turns to glossy dark leaves which are reddish-bronze in winter. Tall growing habit, height 100-125cm in 10 years.
Recommended for great foliage and flowers.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations.
Habit: Upright.
Group: Rhododendron hybrid.
Parentage: concinnum Pseudoyanthinum...
Rhododendron piercei
Gorgeous bell shaped fleshy crimson flowers with dark nectar pouches in March-April. This plant has shiny rugulose (wrinkled) leaves with a lovely wooly brown indumentum on the underside. With an open, spreading habit it can be slow to flower but is well worth the wait! Like all Neriiflora, avoid using any fertilizers. Height 100cm in 10 years.
Recommended for excellent foliage.
Plantsman range.
Ideal...
Rhododendron Polaris AGM STANDARD
This tough plant has red buds opening to ruby pink, ruffled flowers with a paler centre in May. It has good foliage and is sun and cold tolerant. These standards have a clear stem of about 60cm, with a lollipop head of foliage and flower on top. Currently the size of the well-branched head is about 30cm, and it will grow to around 80cm in 10 years.
Standards will always require staking with a good...
Rhododendron prattii
(TALIENSIA H6) Bell-shaped white flowers with red spots, April - May. Broadly elliptic leaves with thin indumentum underneath. Height 80-100 cm in 10 years.
Rhododendron Prinses Maxima
(H6) NEW! Cream coloured double flowers, with prominent red spotting over all the lobes. Mid to late May flowering. A very hardy plant from Tijs Huisman, in Northern Holland. Height 150-175cm in 10 years. Shortlisted for RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year, 2016. One of 3 plants entered by Millais Nurseries that reached the top 20 selections of the Show!This is a very complicated cross involving...
Rhododendron pubicostatum
(TALIENSIA H7) Trusses of light pink flowers. April-May. Excellent foliage with sparse brown indumentum on underside. Probably natural hybrid between R. bureavii and R. sikangense. Height 40-60 cm in 10 years.
Rhododendron Queen Bee
**** As launched by us at Chelsea Flower Show 2019****
(H5) Rosy-pink in bud, opening to pinky white bell shaped flowers in April. A wonderful foliage plant with lovely fawn indumentum in June-July, turning brown underneath and silvery on top. Height 50-75cm in 10 years. A beautiful foliage rhododendron with a very promising future. This combines some of the lovely fawn indumentum from R. tsariense,...
Rhododendron Queen Elizabeth II
Lovely glowing trusses of clear primrose yellow funnel shaped flowers 30 x 115mm in early-mid May. This is a vigorous strong growing plant of fairly upright open habit. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.As with all yellow Rhododendrons, this plant does need good drainage (but not dry conditions!). It also needs some shelter.
Recommended as a nice vigorous plant with pretty flowers.
Easy to grow.
Ideal...
Rhododendron recurvoides (King & Paton form)
(GLISCHRA H7) White flushed rose flowers, with light crimson spotting. April/May. Dense compact foliage shrub, with bristly stems, and thick woolly indumentum on leaves. Height 25-50cm in 10 years.
This neat compact growing form is the selected clone grown by Misses King and Paton in Scotland. As they were friends and exchanged plants with HH Davidian, the botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh,...
Rhododendron Renoir AGM
Renoir has pretty rose pink flowers with a paler throat and distinctive crimson spots flowering in May. We like this plant because it is excellently floriferous and compact. Height 80-100cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group: yakushimanum.
Parentage: Pauline X yakushimanum.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1951)
Bred by: F E W Hanger. Origin: British. (Francis...
Rhododendron Rocket
Frilled vibrant deep pink flowers with a scarlet blotch in a conical truss. Flowering in early May it has ribbed, thick and glossy foliage. Young growth is coppery bronze. A very useful plant that is heat and sun tolerant with a bushy, upright habit. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Hedging/screening.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group:...
Rhododendron Rosalind
(H5) Loose trusses of rose pink broadly funnel-shaped flowers in April-May. An interesting slow growing plant with grey-green rounded leaves, raised by Lord Aberconway, Bodnant Gardens. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Raised by Lord Aberconway, Bodnant Gardens, 1938Parentage: thomsonii X oreodoxa var. fargesiiRHS Award of Merit, 1938
Rhododendron Roseum Elegans
Beautiful lavender flowers fading to pink, with reddish brown spotting. Flowering in late May early June this lovely old hybrid has olive green foliage. It tolerates sun, heat and cold and is a dense and vigorous grower. It is ideal for windbreaks or hedging and screening. Height 180cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Hedging/screening.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit:...
Rhododendron Roseum Elegans INKARHO
Now available on the Inkarho rootstock! Beautiful lavender flowers fading to pink, with reddish brown spotting. Flowering in late May early June this lovely old hybrid has olive green foliage. It tolerates sun, heat and cold and is a dense and vigorous grower. It is ideal for windbreaks or hedging and screening. Height 180cm in 10 years. Plant with plenty of good ericaceous compost to aid establishment.
Recommended...
Rhododendron roxieanum var. oreonastes AGM
Attractive white flowers flushed pink with delicate purple spotting in April - May. This is a wonderful choice foliage plant with dark narrow linear leaves that have an interesting buff indumentum on the underside. This is one of the species most prized by Rhododendron collectors, due to its fantastic foliage. However it can be shy to flower in some years and it dislikes fertilizer.
Recommended...
Rhododendron Rusty Dane
Pink buds open to pure white flowers, mid to late May. A wonderful foliage selection, looking good all year, with fresh indumentum on the leaves, cream turning reddish brown. Height 50-75cm in 10 years. Another great Danish foliage selection from Svend Hansen, R. bureavii x R. pachysanthum.
Here only counts the journal Beauty! The fresh bud is evenly rust, felted dense and adorns several weeks. The...
Rhododendron Salmon Trout
Super long tubular bell shaped salmon pink flowers appearing in May-June. With beautiful sea green foliage in summer this plant has an upright habit. Best in sheltered, but breezy position. Height 100-120cm in 10 years.
Sometimes known as Rhododendron Lady Chamberlain 'Salmon Trout'.
Recommended for striking flower.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations but need some shelter.
Habit:...
Rhododendron Schneekrone AGM
A tough plant with white flowers tinged soft pink and spotted ruby red in a ball shaped truss of 12 to 17 flowers, each approximately 50mm. Flowering in May this is one of the best white yakushimanum hybrids for cold climates. Height 80-100cm in 10 years. Translated, this plant is 'Snow Crown' and it certainly is a real beauty.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group: yakushimanum.
Parentage:...
Rhododendron Schneekrone AGM STANDARD
A tough plant with white flowers tinged soft pink and spotted ruby red in a ball shaped truss of 12 to 17 flowers, each approximately 50mm. Flowering in May this is one of the best white yakushimanum hybrids for cold climates. Currently the size of the well-branched head is about 30cm, and it will grow to around 75cm in 10 years.
Translated, this plant is 'Snow Crown' and it certainly is a real beauty.
These...
Rhododendron Sennocke
Beautiful deep waxy-red funnel shaped flowers in late May. This is a low growing bushy compact plant with glossy bright green pointed leaves. Height 100-120cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: Striking flower and interesting foliage.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage: Register states 'unknown', but an old Hydon Nurseries catalogue...
Rhododendron Silbervelours
**** New, to be 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.
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Rhododendron sinofalconeri
NEW! 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 sinofalconeri TVO 35
(FALCONERA H5) Pale or rich yellow flowers in April. Should prove hardy for mildest UK gardens. A handsome new species with pale indumentum and conical buds. Height 150 cm in 10 years. Requires moist soil and sheltered site.
Rhododendron smirnowii
Attractive deep mauve pink flowers in May - June, a very hardy species, from North East Turkey and Georgia. This tough plant has long convex leaves and wonderful woolly white young growth on a dense compact plant. Height 80-100cm in 10 years.It is named after M. Smirnow, a friend of it's discoverer, Baron Ungern-Sternberg.
Recommended for exceptional foliage.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most...
Rhododendron Sneezy AGM
This plant has very pretty pink flowers with darker edges flowering in late May. One of the more vigorous 'Seven Dwarfs' yakushimanum hybrids, with an upright growing habit. Height 80-100cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group: yakushimanum.
Parentage: yakushimanum X 'Doncaster'
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1970)
Bred by Waterer's Nurseries, Bagshot. Origin:...
Rhododendron Sneezy AGM STANDARD
This plant has very pretty pink flowers with darker edges flowering in late May. One of the 'Seven Dwarfs' yakushimanum hybrids and has a vigorous upright growing habit. Size of head 80-100cm in 10 years.
These Standards have a clean stem of about 60cm and have been top-work grafted at that height, with a lollipop-like head of trimmed branches and flower buds. Standards will always require staking...
Rhododendron Snow Fire
(H6) A recent and much admired German variety. Good compact habit with dark green foliage. Crown broad, flattened, dense. Leaves narowly lanceolate, leathery, dark green, felty underneath. Flowers late May, white, with dark orange-red centre. Requires moist acid soil. Easily withstands moderatly sunny sites and winter cold. Height 75-90cm in 10 years.
Registered as Bohlken's Snow Fire.
• Ideal...
Rhododendron Special Dane
(H6) Pure white flowers in May on a plant with wonderful foliage. Silver new growth in June turns light brown contrasting with the darker older leaves. Height 50-75cm in 10 years.
A hybrid between 2 great foliage species, R. bureavii x R.pachysanthum, raised by Svend Hansen in Denmark, to provide foliage interest all year around. It is low growing with a broad compact growth and has a good frost...
Rhododendron Staccato
(H6) Deep rose pink double flowers in March,on a semi- evergreen upright plant. Leaves turn purple-red in Winter. very hardy up to -24. Height 1.5-1.75 meters in 10 years. Requires dappled shade and moist acid soil.
• Recommended for striking early flower.• Ideal position: Sheltered.• Habit: Upright.• Group: Rhododendron hybrid.• Parentage: Dauricum X Unknown• Hybridization...
Rhododendron Stadt Essen
Stadt Essen has gorgeous clear-pink flowers with a deeper edging flowering in April. A particularly good and hardy williamsianum hybrid from Hobbie's Nursery and Garden in Northern Germany, with deep green rounded foliage which is bronzed when young. R. williamsianum hybrids are renowned for their rounded leaves which make them an interesting addition to any garden. They will also tolerate slightly...
Rhododendron Talavera
(H5) Light greenish yellow flowers in March, with prominent brown anthers.
Crimson bud scales, and deep red petioles.
A really good profuse early flowering yellow for light shade.
Height 75-100cm in 10 years.
Also known as Golden Oriole Talavera
AM 1947
FCC 1963
The late Peter Chappell of Spinners Garden in the New Forest kindly gave us cuttings of his plant which was growing under a...
Rhododendron taliense
(TALIENSIA H7) Creamy pinkish white bell shaped and spotted flowers in April - May. Honey scented foliage. Thick tawny indumentum on the undersides of leaves. Height 80-100 cm in 10 years.
Rhododendron taliense 'Woolly Dane'
(TALIENSIA H7) Creamy pinkish white bell shaped and spotted flowers in April - May. Honey scented foliage. Thick tawny indumentum on underside of leaves. Height 80-100 cm in 10 years.
A new selection of R. taliense, 'Woolly Dane' has dense woolly felted indumentum in a cognac colour. This thick soft felt graces the newly sprouting leaves, the undersides and the shoots throughout the year. The...
Rhododendron Titian Beauty
This is a stunner! It has rich deep red waxy flowers on long pedicels flowering in May to June. It has fine dark green leaves with silvery indumentum on the underside. A super dense compact plant. Height 80-100cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group: yakushimanum.
Parentage: facetum x 'Fabia Tangerine' X yakushimanum x 'Fabia Tangerine'.
Hybridization date:...
Rhododendron Tortoiseshell Champagne AGM
Gorgeous pale yellow flowers with a deeper centre tinged pink in June. A compact dome shaped plant, growing wider than tall. It does need some shelter and will perform best in some shade. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.As with all yellow Rhododendrons, this plant does need good drainage (but not dry conditions!). Also known as 'Champagne'.
Recommended for: pretty yellow flowers.
Plantsman range.
Ideal...
Rhododendron Tortoiseshell Orange AGM
Very attractive orange-red flowers shaded pink in loose trusses during June. It forms a compact dome shaped plant with attractive glossy leaves. It will perform best in some shade and in a sheltered position. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: gorgeous orange flowers.
Plantsman range.
Ideal position: Dappled shade, needs careful site selection.
Habit: Dense.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage:...
Rhododendron traillianum
Lovely white flowers flushed rose in a small upright truss in April - May. This is a handsome foliage plant with a glossy leaf surface on the top, and fine rust powdery indumentum on underside. Height 80-120cm in 10 years.Named after G.W. Traill (1836-1897), botanist and father-in-law of the great plant collector, George Forrest.
Recommended for fantastic foliage.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position:...