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Deciduous Azalea Double Damask
(H6) Almost pure white frilly flowers with a subtle yellow flare in the upper lobe, which have the appearance of being double. The flowers have a light scent to them and start to open in early May.This plant grows to around be around 100 – 125cm in ten years making it one of the smaller Deciduous Azaleas on the market.
• Easy to grow.• Group: Deciduous Azalea (Knaphill)• Parentage:...
Deciduous Azalea Sun's Head (R. Sonnenkopfchen)
We have discounted these 5l plants due to cosmetic damage caused by a late frost, but will not effect plant growth.
(H6) Bright rich yellow star shaped double flowers with a golden yellow blotch on the upper lobe, and a faint pink edging when first open. The flowers form a huge ball shaped truss with an intense sweet fragrance in May. They are 45-50mm across, and all the stamens are petaloid, adding...
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...
Deciduous Azalea Marina
(H6) Deep yellow in bud, opening to pale creamy yellow flowers with a deeper blotch, which tone nicely with so many other azalea colours. A lovely hybrid raised at Exbury Gardens, flowering in May-June. Height 150-175cm in 10 years.
• Easy to grow.• Group: Deciduous Azalea (Knap Hill hybrid).• Parentage: unknown.• Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1951).• Bred by: E. de Rothschild....
Deciduous Azalea April Showers
Large pale yellow flowers with a deeper orange yellow centre and slight blotch. A nicely scented quality flower that is earlier than the Knaphill types, and showy in late April-May. Height 120-150cm in 10 years. Requires a fairly sunny position.
Recommended for early scented flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1965).
Bred...
Deciduous Azalea Soir de Paris AGM
Delicate and scented purplish pink flowers with an orange blotch and darker lines. Flowering in June, the flowers are up to 50mm in trusses of 7 to 9. An excellent plant with pretty small greyish/blue leaves. Height 120-150cm in 10 years. It prefers a fairly sunny position.
Recommended for pretty scented flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (viscosum hybrid).
Parentage: viscosum X 'Koster's...
Deciduous Azalea Stopham Gold
(H6) Bright yellow flowers in June with good autumn colours. Collected by David Millais from Jack Harrington's garden. This is another wonderful Denny Pratt hybrid. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for outstanding yellow flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Pratt hybrid).
Parentage: unknown
Hybridization date: pre 2000.
Bred by: D. Pratt. Origin: British.
Habit: upright.
Ideal...
Evergreen Azalea Kure-no-yuki
White hose-in-hose double flowers in May with a dwarf habit. A lovely old variety, it is a fine white flowering selection but not fully hardy, so best in more sheltered locations. Height 60-75cm in 10 years.
This is one of the best 50 azaleas selected by Ernest Wilson, known as 'Wilson's 50', from Japan and introduced by him in 1918. This variety is known as Wilson No. 2, or 'Snowflake'.
Ideal...
Evergreen Azalea Niagara AGM
Wonderful large white wavy edged flowers with a faint yellow green eye in the centre. Flowering in mid May, we think this is one of the best white flowered varieties. Dense bushy upright habit, and attractive pale green leaves. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
Ideal for small gardens and mixed borders.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (Glenn Dale hybrid).
Parentage: 'Lilacinum' x 'Willy' (s) X...
Deciduous Azalea Charlotte Megan
(H6) Luscious double flowered Strawberry pink pompom shaped flowers standing up like great globes on top of the stems. Flowers mid to late May. Best in light shade or full sun. Good autumn leaf colour adds extra interest. Height 150-175cm in 10 years.
This is 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....
Deciduous Azalea Norman's Choice
(H6) Vivid red in bud, opening to reddish orange flowers with yellow flare on upper lobes, with wavy edges. Scented flowers in May. Rich bronze coloured foliage. Height 125-150cm in 10 years. Requires moist acid soils.
Raised by the late George Hyde, a Dorset nurseryman in the 1970s.Named by his daughter Rosemary Legrand in 2013 for renowned New Forest nurseryman Norman Stanbrook.
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 austrinum
Pretty musky fragrant yellow, apricot or orange flowers appear in April and May before the leaves open. This is a really pretty and distinctive deciduous azalea that is tall growing. Rarely for sale elsewhere. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for attractive scented flowers.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations, likes some sun.
Habit: upright.
Group: Deciduous Azalea.
Subsection:...
Deciduous Azalea Antilope AGM
Wonderful pink honeysuckle shaped flowers with a faint yellow blotch, and a nice scent. The flowers are 40-50mm and appear 10 per truss. Flowering in May/June this plant also has good autumn foliage. Height 120-150cm in 10 years. Requires a fairly sunny position.
Recommended for pretty scented flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (viscosum hybrid).
Parentage: viscosum X 'Koster's Brilliant...
Deciduous Azalea albrechtii 'Whitney form'
A very beautiful clone with deep rose flowers 3-4cm across appear with the leaves in April - May. It has a lovely yellow autumn colour. Height 120-150cm after 10 years. It does like a fairly sunny position, is very hardy but early growth needs protection from frost.
Recommended for stunning flowers and autumn colour.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations, likes some sun.
Habit:...
Deciduous Azalea Niamh
(H6) Wonderful large deep pink flowers with a prominent orange-yellow flare on the upper petal, in late May. Stunning red foliage develops through the summer. Height is 150cm in 10 years. It does require a fairly sunny position.
This is a lovely plant which was bred by Ted Millais, and always attracted attention in the garden with its deep pink flowers, set off by lovely red foliage. For years we...
Deciduous Azalea Sun Star
We have discounted these 5l plants due to cosmetic damage caused by a late frost, but will not effect plant growth.
(H6) Glowing dark salmon pink in bud, opening with bright yellow double fragrant flowers, and changing to soft orange in late May. It is a really bright glowing flower, which is followed with good autumn foliage colour. A choice hybrid from Tijs Huisman in Holland. Height 150-175cm...
Deciduous Azalea Fireworks
(H6) Bright orange flowers emerge from coppery-red buds in May-June. A tough upright variety, which gives extraordinary long-distant effect from a long distance. Requires moist acid soil. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
• Recommended for bright orange flowers.• Easy to grow.• Group: Deciduous Azalea (Knap Hill hybrid).• Parentage: ‘Cecile’ X ‘Fireball’•...
Deciduous Azalea Silverwood
Creamy in bud, opening to white with a prominent golden yellow flare in May - June. A fragrant plant raised by Ted Millais, and named after the cottage in the woods at Crosswater Farm. It forms a beautiful dome shaped plant with good autumn colour. Height 140-160cm in 10 years.
Recommended for stunning fragrant flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Knaphill hybrid).
Parentage: 'Silver...
Deciduous Azalea Karminduft
We have discounted these 5l plants due to damage caused by a late frost, but will not effect plant growth.
(H6) Carmine red scented flowers with an orangey tone in the centre. May-June flowering. Scented red azaleas are rare, so this tough viscosum hybrid bred by Hans Hachmann in Germany is a bonus. Height 150-175cm in 10 years.
Name translates to 'Scented Carmine'.
• Recommended for large...
Deciduous Azalea Water Pixie
(H6) Red in bud, opening to scented pink tubular funnel shaped flowers, with deeper pink in the tube, during late June. The dainty flowers are set off by stunning blue-grey foliage on a neat compact plant. Best in a sunny spot to maintain the new blue foliage colour. Height 100-125cm in 10 years.
Bred at Crosswater Farm, and one of the newest releases from our late flowering breeding programme.
Recommended...
Deciduous Azalea Alan Leslie
(H6) Small tubular bright rosy pink flowers, scented and late flowering in July. Neat compact growing habit. Named for the International Registrar for Rhododendrons. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Deciduous Azalea Pamela Mary
(H6) Deep pink in bud, opening to pink with a large orange flare, giving a lovely and distinctive two tone effect, then becoming glowing pale orange throughout. Stunning large flowers in late May, on a plant with a strong upright habit.
This was raised by noted Dorset nurseryman, George Hyde, who also raised the Solent strain of azaleas for Exbury Gardens. It was selected and named by his daughter...
Deciduous Azalea Tower Daring
(H6) Deep pink in bud, opening to rose pink with a stripey pink midrib and veining, and a slight yellow flare on upper lobe. Strongly scented flowers in May growing on a low Ghent type azalea. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Named by General and Mrs Harrison in the 1960s, 'Daring' was one of General Harrison's gun dogs; 'Tower' refers to Tower Court, Mrs Harrison's former home.
• Recommended for...
Deciduous Azalea Marie Hoffman
(H6) Pretty clove scented clear pink flowers with a slight yellowy centre, appearing in clusters with the leaves in May. Originally described as a choice and very hardy selection of the wild Azalea prinophyllum from Eastern U.S.A, but now beleived to be a hybrid due to its larger flowers of greater substance. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for fragrant flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:...
Evergreen Azalea Geisha Purple
Pretty small light reddish-purple hose in hose flowers (approximately 20mm) in May which are very floriferous. A very hardy compact growing plant bred to withstand the cold in Germany. Height and spread 40-60cm in 10 years.
Also known as Geisha Purpurrosa and registered name is Fumiko
W.Arends, (descendant of astilbe botanist Georg Arends (1863-1952)), bred the Geisha series of evergreen azaleas...
Evergreen Azalea Louise Dowdle
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Striking and very large rosy purple flowers around 75mm across, with a deeper blotch and occasional pale centres. Flowering in May this plant has a broad and wide spreading habit. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
Ideal for small gardens and mixed borders.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen...
Deciduous Azalea Midsummer Moon
(H6) Bright yellow in bud, opening to delightfully scented cream flowers with a pale yellow flash. Raised by Ted Millais at Crosswater Farm, particularly to extend the flowering season. Flowering in late June with lush light green foliage turning glaucous blue through the growing season. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
This lovely plant is as a result of the breeding work Ted did with Denny Pratt's...
Deciduous Azalea Midsummer Star
(H6) Beautifully scented bright pink narrow tubular star-shaped flowers. Raised by Ted Millais at Crosswater Farm, particularly to extend the flowering season. Flowering in late June with nice glossy foliage. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
This lovely plant is as a result of the breeding work Ted did with Denny Pratt's later flowering azaleas. Denny specialised in breeding late flowering azaleas during...
Deciduous Azalea Midsummer Coral
(H6) Stunning scented coral pink flowers with a prominent yellow orange flare. Raised by Ted Millais at Crosswater Farm, particularly to extend the flowering season. Flowering in late June with lovely light green foliage. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
This lovely plant is as a result of the breeding work Ted did with Denny Pratt's later flowering azaleas. Denny specialised in breeding late flowering...
Deciduous Azalea Midsummer Queen
(H6) Scented creamy white flowers with a deeper yellow centre, and fading to paler creamy white. Flowering in late June, which extends the flowering season nicely. Attractive glossy dark green foliage. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Bred at Crosswater Farm, and one of our newest releases from our late flowering breeding programme.
Recommended for late scented flower and fantastic foliage.
Easy...
Deciduous Azalea Midsummer Mermaid
(H6) Beautifully scented pink honeysuckle type flowers with slight yellow markings. Raised by Ted Millais at Crosswater Farm, particularly to extend the flowering season. Flowering in late June/July there are 7 flowers up to 35mm across per domed truss. It has amazing silvery blue foliage all summer. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.Ted Millais grew this from seed collected as a blue leaved form of viscosum...
Deciduous Azalea Silver Slipper AGM
Pink buds open to large white flowers with a prominent yellow orange flare in May - June. A stunning deciduous azalea that has good coppery autumn colour. Height 150-180cm in 10 years. Prefers a fairly sunny position.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Exbury hybrid).
Parentage: unknown
Hybridization date: pre 1950 (1948).
Bred by: Exbury. Origin: British.
Habit: compact.
Ideal position:...
Deciduous Azalea luteum 'Purple Leaf'
(H7) A selection by Ted Millais of the stunning and most popular highly scented yellow azalea, featuring lovely purple green leaves all summer. Bright yellow flowering in May, interesting foliage all summer, plus good autumn leaf colour. Height 125-150 cm in 10 years. Requires a fairly sunny position.
Please note that due to the stocky nature and slower growth rate of Azalea luteum, young plants will...
Deciduous Azalea Snow's Head
We have discounted these 5l plants due to cosmetic damage caused by a late frost, but will not effect plant growth.
(H6) Almost pure white star shaped double flowers, forming large white balls of sweetly scented flowers in early May. Each flower is between 35 – 45mm and all the stamens are petaloid, adding more floral impact. This plant has lush bright green foliage and a broadly upright habit....
Deciduous Azalea Yellow Pom Pom
We have discounted these 5l plants due to cosmetic damage caused by a late frost, but will not effect plant growth.
(H5) A stunning bright yellow ball of flowers, each truss is made up of between 18 and 24 individual flowers, in turn each individual flower is between 5 and 7.5cm across and hose in hose giving it the appearance of twice as many petals. Good foliage colour in the autumn. Height 125-150cm...
Evergreen Azalea Heidi
(H5) Hardy evergreen shrub bearing large peony-shaped soft pink flowers with a pale almost white centre, on a neat compact bush. Flowering late April - May. Height 75-100cm in 10 years.
Deciduous Azalea Crosswater Cream and Gold
(H4) UNREGISTERED. Choice small flowers of cream with golden centres, fading to white with a golden yellow blotch, in May and June. Raised at Crosswater Farm by Ted Millais. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Deciduous Azalea luteum
Absolutely stunning and still one of the most popular highly scented yellow azaleas. Flowering in May this deciduous azalea has striking autumn yellow and orange leaf colour. A must for every garden and one of our favourites. A lovely old species that has become naturalized in parts of the British Isles and was very important in the development of the Ghent hybrids. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Some...
Deciduous Azalea Satan AGM
We have discounted these 5l plants due to cosmetic damage caused by a late frost, but will not effect plant growth.
Wickedly dark red in bud, opening to large deep orange-red flowers in late May and early June. A good mildew resistant plant raised by the old Waterer Nurseries at Knaphill, and introduced by W C Slocock Ltd. This variety makes a real statement and is a must for any garden. Height 150-175cm...
Deciduous Azalea Queen Emma
Stunning large deep orange flowers suffused with a salmon glow and blotched strong orange up to 65mm across in a pompom type truss. Flowering in May this lovely variety has good autumn colour. Height 140-160cm after 10 years. It does like a fairly sunny position.
The registered name of this plant is 'Koningin Emma', named after the Dutch Queen Emma..
Ideal for mixed borders.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous...
Deciduous Azalea Gibraltar AGM
A stunning plant featuring flame orange flowers with a warm yellow flare and slightly frilled petals in trusses up to 65mm across. This is a very popular deciduous azalea that flowers in May-June. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.
Recommended for attention grabbing flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Exbury hybrid)
Parentage: unknown
Hybridization date: pre 1950 (1947).
Bred by: E. de...
Deciduous Azalea Ginger
A striking plant with brilliant orange flowers with golden upper petal. It flowers about a week earlier than most Exbury type azaleas, so it's lovely in starting the Exbury azalea flowering season in mid May. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Ideal for mixed borders.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Exbury hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: pre 1950 (1947).
Bred by: Exbury. Origin:...
Deciduous Azalea wadanum
(H5) Flat faced rich rose pink flowers, appearing with the leaves in April and May. Interesting almost heart shape leaves, on a compact bushy plant from Japan. Needs protection when young. Height 50-75cm in 10 years.
Deciduous Azalea canescens
Pretty sweetly scented funnel shaped flowers are pink or white, appearing before or with the leaves. Flowering in April - May, this plant is rarely available elsewhere. Height 150-180cm in 10 years. It does like a fairly sunny position and will tolerate more damp conditions.
Recommended for pretty flowers with a lovely fragrance.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: prefers damp conditions with some...
Deciduous Azalea reticulatum
(H5) Dainty bright rose purple flowers on bare branches in April - May. The interesting leaves are ovate or rhombic in shape and held in whorls at the ends of the branchlets. They can be purplish when young. An relatively tender plant from Japan which requires a sheltered site especially from late spring frosts and when young. Good autumn leaf colour adds extra interest. This plant is rare and choice...
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:...
Evergreen Azalea Rose Greeley AGM
Wonderful large white flowers up to 65mm wide, hose in hose, with a yellow-green blotch. Slightly scented and flowering in early May this is a great plant with a dense spreading habit. It is fairly tough from Gable, Eastern USA. Height 40-50cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (American hybrid).
Parentage: (yedoense var. poukhanense x mucronatum)...
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Millais Nurseries grow one of the widest ranges of Rhododendrons and Azaleas in the world, and have an unparalleled experience of the genus, and have achieved 5 consecutive RHS Gold medals at Chelsea. We propagate around 35,000 Rhododendrons each year, by cuttings, grafts, seed and micropropagation. These are supplied to keen gardeners, large estates,...