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Evergreen Azalea Pink Spider STANDARD
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(H5) Spectacular form of the Spider Azalea with masses of narrow petalled flowers, pink with a white banding in May. Narrow leaves on a small bushy plant, ideal as a patio plant, but protect from the cold as it is more tender than most evergreen azaleas. Requires moist acid soils.
These Standards have a clear stem of approximately 40cm, with a head measuring...
Evergreen Azalea Wombat AGM
Large bright cerise pink flowers up to 50mm, which are long lasting during June. An excellent hardy introduction from Scotland which forms a neat prostrate low mounded shape. Height and spread of 40-60cm in 10 years.
Ideal for rock gardens and cascading over walls and to extend the flowering season.
Easy to grow.
Group: Evergreen Azalea (nakaharae hybrid).
Parentage: nakaharae 'Mariko' X 'Gaiety'
Hybridization...
Evergreen Azalea Rani
(H5) Gorgeous clusters of bright red double flowers in May, set off by deep green foliage on a neat compact growing plant. This is a hybrid between a double flowered indica azalea, and a very hardy japonica azalea.Height 25-50cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and most garden situations, including rock gardens and front of borders.
Easy to grow.
Group: Evergreen Azalea
Parentage: Unknown
Hybridization...
Deciduous Azalea Chanel
(H6) Tubular funnel shaped scented flowers, light yellow suffused pink with a dark yellow blotch. Beautifully scented. Flowering in June with nice autumn foliage.
• Recommended for fragrant flowers.• Easy to grow.• Group: Deciduous Azalea• Parentage: viscosum x Mollis hybrid• Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1965).• Bred by: Felix & Dijkhuis Origin: Dutch• Habit:...
Deciduous Azalea Barselik
(H6) Prominent, funnel-shaped orange-red flowers in May. The foliage remains light green during summer and transitions to bright gold in autumn. Requires a moist but well drained acid soil. Approx 100-125cm in 10 years.
Deciduous Azalea Rosata AGM
(H6) Lightly scented pink flowers with darker veins and yellow orange speckling on the upper lobe. The pale flowers contrast nicely with deeper pink buds and deeper pink on the reverse. May flowering. A tough compact plant with small leaves. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
• Recommended for fragrant flowers.
• Easy to grow.
• Group: Deciduous Azalea.
• Parentage: R. viscosum...
Evergreen Azalea Sir Robert
(H5) Apple blossom-pink to light purple, pink flowers in late May. Colour and flower markings can be variable. A compact variety that grows wider than taller, with dark green foliage. Height 50-60cm x 80-90cm wide in 10 years. Requires moist acid soil in sun or semi shade.
• Ideal for containers and most garden situations, including rock gardens and front of borders.• Easy to grow.•...
Deciduous Azalea Phil Legrand
(H6) Vivid red flowers, with red-orange shading on the upper lobe. Wavy edged open trumpet shaped flowers, forming a ball shaped truss in mid May. Glossy dark bronzy 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, for her son in 2013
Deciduous Azalea Double Parfait
(H6) Scented white flowers with yellow-orange dorsal lobe. Flowers are variable, single, semi-double or double, with variable shades of pink on petals and petaloids. Mid May-June flowering. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
An interesting occidentale hybrid bred by Frank Mossman from his well respected 'Smith and Mossman' occidentale seed collections from the West coast of America. The flowers can be...
Evergreen Azalea Palestrina AGM
(H5) Large flowered single white flower, with yellow-green flare in the centre and soft fragrance in May. Pale green leaves on an semi-evergreen, upright growing plant, best trimmed when young. Height 50-75cm in 10 years.
• Parentage: kaempferi hybrid X 'J.C. van Tol’• Hybridization date: pre 1926• Bred by: Vuyk van Nes. Origin: Netherlands• Habit: Upright• Ideal position:...
Deciduous Azalea Gibraltar AGM STANDARD
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.
These Standards have been trained to have a clear stem of about 60cm before a lollipop-like head of trimmed branches and flower buds has been formed. Standards will always require staking with a good tree-tie...
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...
Deciduous Azalea viscosum 'Queen's Choice'
(H6) This is a selected form of viscosum and shares many of the normal characteristics you would expect from its parent plant viscosum (the swamp honey suckle). This variety has relatively large pure white scented, single flowers with soft pink stigma and styles, which can give the flowers a very faint pink hue, on a light green foliage. Flowers appear in early June and continue for most of the month....
Deciduous Azalea Washington State Centennial
(H6) Large frilly scented flowers, orange yellow on the upper lobe, and creamy yellow on lower lobes. Early June. A low growing plant with glossy dark green leaves, and autumn colour. Height 100-125cm in 10 years. Requires moist acid soils.
An interesting occidentale hybrid bred by Frank Mossman (USA) and named to commemorate the Centenary of the American state of Washington (1889-1989) on the Pacific...
Neudorff Organic Rhododendron Azalea and Camellia Food with mycorrhiza
An exceptional NEW product! Up until now, there has not been a mycorrhizal fungi that has worked with Rhododendrons. This new organic fertilizer from Germany contains a specially developed mycorrhizal fungi which aids the rooting of Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Camellias. We were aware that this research was taking place more than 10 years ago, and the development programme has been long and extensive,...
Evergreen Azalea Schneeperle AGM STANDARD
(H6) Stunning pretty double white flowers in May, with slight creamy green speckling in throat up to 45mm wide. A very hardy and beautiful plant from Germany, which is proving popular here. It has a dense, compact, mound like habit. Head size 40-50cm in 10 years.These Standards have a clean stem of about 45cm, with a lollipop like head of trimmed branches and flower buds measuring approximately 15-20cm...
Evergreen Azalea Anouk
(H5) Rose-pink trumpet shaped flowers. Flowering in May, early to mid season. A compact growing variety. Height 60-80cm in 10 years. Requires moist acid soil.
Deciduous Azalea Juanita
(H5) Large deep pink flowers with a deep golden blotch in May-June. Good Autumn colour. Height 140-160 cm in 10 years. An excellent introduction from Hans Hachmann in Germany. Requires moist acid soil and fairly sunny position.
• Recommended for large striking flowers.• Easy to grow.• Group:Deciduous Azalea (Knap Hill hybrid).• Parentage: ‘Cecile’ X ‘Gibraltar’.•...
Evergreen Azalea Juliette
(H6) Soft red to salmon red flower, 3-4cm across, in late May. Also known as Hachmann’s Juliette in international registers, is a Japanese azalea bred by Holger Hachmann in 1990 as a cross between Squirrel and Chippewa, introduced in 2004. The evergreen leaves are small, narrowly elliptic, dark green, and glossy. Height 50-75cm in 10 years
Deciduous Azalea Sovereign
(H6) Large bright yellow Knaphill style flowers with a darker more orange upper lobe. Usually, flowers in mid-May before the new foliage starts to really grow. Height 150-175 in 10 years.
Collected from Charles Hill Nursery.
• Recommended for striking flowers.• Easy to grow.• Group: Deciduous Azalea (Knaphill Style).• Parentage: unknown.• Hybridization date: unknown•...
Evergreen Azalea Benny Gery
(H5) Vibrant deep pink flowers, that open in late April and last most of May. The medium sized funnel shaped blooms usually cover the whole plant leaving little to no foliage visible. When this azalea has finished flowering you are left with lush dark green foliage, that can be trimmed to keep the plant the shape you require. Height 75-100cm in 10 years
• Ideal for containers and small gardens.•...
Deciduous Azalea Whitethroat AGM
Delightful small pure white double funnel-shaped flowers. Flowering in May - June this is a lovely neat compact plant with a spreading habit. It performs best in light dappled shade and has attractive silvery light green leaves. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for pure white flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Knaphill hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: pre...
Deciduous Azalea Perfectly Pauline
(H6) Pink in bud, opening to white flowers blushed with deep pink margins, and prominent speckling of orange-yellow on the upper lobes. The flowers are large, flat faced and slightly recurved at the edges, with a good scent, and flowering in May. Height 125-150cm in 10 years. Requires moist acid soils.
Raised by the late George Hyde, a Dorset azalea nurseryman in the 1970s, and named by his daughter...
Deciduous Azalea Homebush AGM STANDARD
Extremely attractive double deep carmine pink flowers in a ball-shaped pompom-like truss 30mm across. Flowering May - June this deciduous azalea has good autumn colour. Requires a fairly sunny position.
These standards have a clear stem of about 60cm before a lollipop-like head of trimmed branches and flower buds has been formed. Standards will always require staking with a good tree-tie to prevent...
Deciduous Azalea Goldköpfchen (Gold Head)
We have discounted these 5l plants due to damage caused by a late frost, but will not effect plant growth.
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(H6) Beautiful, scented, star-shaped double orange flowers forming a ball shaped truss at the end of each stem in early May. Good autumn foliage colour. Height 125-150cm in 10 years. Prefers full sun/partial shade in a moist but well-drained...
Dwarf Rhododendron Wren AGM
Attractive clear yellow flowers in early May. This is a very free flowering plant often completely smothering the foliage. It has a low spreading habit with dark shiny foliage which turns bronzy red in winter. height 30-40cm in 10 years.
Dwarf Rhododendrons don't mind the sun but they hate too much heat, so do avoid reflected heat from South facing walls and patios, particularly if planting in containers....
Rhododendron Jubilee
(H5) Bright red flowers on a neat compact growing plant with a rounded habit. Flowering in early May. A tough plant from Germany, yet to be Registered. Height 75-100cm in 10 years. requires moist acid soils.
Liquidamber styraciflua 'Wisley King'
Picture for example only.
(H6) A large upright deciduous sweetgum, selected by RHS Wisley Gardens. Its five-lobed, glossy leaves turn through orange and yellow, to a brilliant crimson red in late autumn. Height 2-4 metres in 10 years, ultimately growing to 10m tall and 8 metres wide. Best on acid or neutral soils
Dwarf Rhododendron Frosthexe
(H5). Colourful Daphne-like purplish-blue flowers, flowering in April-May. An eye-catching colour on a neat, compact and tough growing plant with dark green glossy and aromatic leaves. Height 25-50cm in 10 years.
Dwarf Rhododendrons don't mind the sun but they hate too much heat, so do avoid reflected heat from South facing walls and patios, particularly if planting in containers.
• Recommended...
Acer palmatum 'Butterfly'
Cream variegated foliage, which sometimes curls into a sickle shape. In spring the leaves also have pink markings. In autumn the cream areas become a striking magenta colour. Makes a dense, upright large shrub. Expected height is 150cm in 10 years.
Cornus kousa 'Big Apple'
Large white flowering bracts in June, followed by extremely large red edible fruits in the autumn. Dark green leathery and heavily textured leaves on a large spreading tree. Height 2-4m in 10 years. Best in full sun or partial shade.
Nyssa sylvatica Red Rage
(H6) An upright pyramidal tree native to the eastern U.S. The glossy, deep green foliage turns to brilliant red, yellow and oranges in the Autumn. Good disease resistance. It grows best in full sun to part sun, and moist well-drained, acidic soils, with shelter from cold, dry winds. Resents transplanting. Height 2-4 metres in 10 years.
Dwarf Rhododendron Purple Gem
(H7) Bright purple violet flowers in ball-shaped trusses in April. Blueish-green aromatic new foliage turns bronzey in winter. Dense rounded habit, which can be trimmed after flowering. Best in sunny position. Height 25-50cm in 10 years.
• Recommended for: small gardens and interesting foliage.• Easy to grow.• Ideal position: Some sun, away from heat.• Habit: Dense, rounded habit.•...
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...
Daphne Eternal Fragrance
Non-stop blooms from April to October. This unusual semi-evergreen Daphne flowers on new growth. With a compact, slow growth habit and heady sweet fragrance, this elegant shrub is perfect for planting in containers close to a doorway, where you will fully appreciate the fragrance as you pass. Tolerant of sun and semi-shade. Height 80 - 90cm in 10 years
Cornus florida 'Cherokee Chief'
(H5) A choice "dogwood", forming a large deciduous shrub, with deep rose-red bracts in late spring, Pink flower heads to 10cm in width and stunning autumn leaf colour of reds and purples. Height 200-400cm in 10 years. Best on moist acid or neutral soils in a sunny position.
Rhododendron wasonii var. rhododactylum
(TALIENSIA H6) This form has pinky-white flowers with light spotting. April - May. Dark green shiny ovate-lanceolate leaves with thick brown woolly indumentum on lower surface, white when young. Height 40-60 cm in 10 years. Requires moist acid soil.
A variable species, and it is unknown whether this plant should have varietal or group status.
Found in West Sichuan, at heights between 2600-3000 metres,...
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...
Enkianthus chinensis
Also known as Chinese enkianthus(H5) A beautiful, upright deciduous shrub with two seasons of interest. From late spring in to early summer it produces cascading clusters of small cream to pink flowers with pink veins from its branches. In the autumn the small light green leaves turn flaming shades of yellow, orange and red. Prefers a sheltered position in dappled shade on moist, well-drained, acid...
Rhododendron Wine and Roses STANDARD
(H5) Distinctive dark wine red foliage, especially on new leaves and on their undersides which are displayed when ruffled by the wind. New growth bronze. Bright rose pink flowers, fading to pale pink, in an open-topped truss. Very free flowering in April. These standards have a clear stem of about 80cm, with a lollipop head of foliage and flower on top. Currently the size of the well-branched head...
Rhododendron Graziella INKARHO
Now available on the Inkarho rootstock! This is a fabulous plant with very distinctive foliage featuring amazing narrow laceolate leaves. It has pink flowers from mid to late May on a low growing bushy shrub. Height 120-140cm in 10 years. Plant with plenty of good ericaceous compost to aid establishment.
Recommended for: Amazing foliage.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Habit:...
Rhododendron Red Star (Bohlkens Roter Stern) STANDARD
(H6) Deep red buds opening to rich red flowers with a lighter centre in mid May.
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 with a good tree-tie to prevent wind damage. They prefer a fairly sunny position. We recommend pruning of the previous year's...
Empathy After Plant - Organic Based Biostimulant & Feed
Empathy AFTER PLANT ERICACEOUS Organic based Bio stimulant & Feed is a liquid concentrate containing seaweed extract, plant derived amino acids, fortified with sequestered iron, specifically formulated to support acid-loving plants.The natural bio stimulants in Empathy AFTER PLANT ERICACEOUS are taken up by the plant and promote faster and stronger root and shoot growth. They will also promote...
Camellia japonica 'Dr Tinsley' AGM
(H5) Semi-double, pink flowers with a lighter centre in the Spring. Upright and compact medium sized shrub. Prefers a north or west facing site. Height 150-175cm in 10 years.
Rhododendron Lodbrit
(H5) Dark crimson buds open to large wide funnel shaped cherry pink flowers, fading to very light pink. Late May flowering. A strong Loderi x Britannia hybrid with large healthy green leaves on a dense growing plant. Height 150-175cm 10 years.
It is a shame that this plant does not give the wonderful scent of Loderi, but we are impressed with the lovely deep flowers and strong growth of dense habit...
Magnolia Yellow Lantern AGM
Beautiful tall tulip shaped pale lemon flowers on a fastigiate small tree. Precocious early flowering on young plants during April-May. This deciduous plant flowers before the foliage appears. We have this plant at the entrance to our garden and it always looks fantastic, and creates lots of interest. This hybrid was raised in 1985 by the renowned Phil Savage of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Savage has...
Rhododendron Beatrice Keir
This is a beautiful plant with full trusses of thick textured glowing yellow flowers in April to May. It has an upright habit and is a lovely early variety. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.As with all yellow Rhododendrons, this plant does need good drainage (but not dry conditions!).
Recommended for: stunning earlier yellow flowers.
Plantsman range.
Ideal position: Dappled shade, needs careful...
Dwarf Rhododendron Songbird
Beautiful clusters of up to 20 intense deep violet blue flowers in April-May, which are particularly striking. This dense compact plant also features good looking deep-green glossy leaves. Free-flowering, and often produces some flowers to welcome in the autumn. Height 30-50cm in 10 years. Dwarf Rhododendrons don't mind the sun but they hate too much heat, so do avoid reflected heat from South facing...
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...deciduous azaleas will tolerate pH6.5, while the new INKARHO rhododendrons are grafted onto a special rootstock and will grow in neutral or even chalky soils (pH 7.5). They even tolerate heavy clay soils, and enable Rhododendrons to be grown in many more places than before. See if there...
About us
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,...