ALL RHODODENDRONS

An excellent dwarf alpine species with a prostrate but mounding habit and dark green glossy leaves with upright and flat-faced dark rose-purple flowers in late spring. Perfect in a rock garden, best in sun with excellent drainage. Basically, this is the mounding form of what has long been called “R. radicans”. This offering cutting-grown from a favorite clone at the RSBG.

This fine selection of this variable species has a completely prostrate and creeping habit. Dark green glossy leaves highlight the upright, single and flat-faced, purple flowers in late spring. Perfect in a rock garden or in a container. Best in sun and relatively drought tolerant once established. This is the Award of Merit form from Windsor.

An excellent dwarf alpine species with a prostrate but mounding habit and dark green glossy leaves with upright and flat-faced dark rose-purple flowers in late spring. Perfect in a rock garden, best in sun with excellent drainage. Basically, this is the mounding form of what has long been called “R. radicans”. This clone grown from seed collected in the wild.

This is a dwarf and mounding alpine species native to the Sino-Himalaya. This is a variable subspecies of this incredibly variable species. This subspecies represents the western end of the range of this widespread species and is variable in both flower color and foliage shape/color but generally with pinkish-purple flowers. Best in sun or light shade with good drainage. These are grown from seed collected in the wild.

A famous plant with a relatively upright but bushy growth habit, very small, bright blue-green leaves and pink flowers in late spring. A very distinct form of this variable species that is best grown in a sunny position or light shade with good drainage. Known only from northern Myanmar.

This forms a rounded shrub with red-purple flowers in mid-spring. An admired species due to its stunning young foliage which emerges an intense blue-green with a white indumentum beneath. The indumentum eventually darkens to a thick orange-brown. A very striking and eye-catching plant in late spring and early summer and one of the most distinct and delightful species in the genus due to its incredible foliage. To be honest, this is a very shy-bloomer which is a bonus as the flowers are a rather harsh color against the glaucous blue foliage in my opinion. 

Large upright shrubs with shiny foliage and pinkish to lavender or (rarely) white flowers in mid-spring. The leaves have a dense and dark indumentum beneath. Grown from seed produced by a hand-pollination of two of our best clones here at the RSBG. Native to the Himalaya Mountains where this is a common, widespread and variable species.

Dwarf evergreen alpine shrubs typically with a dense mounding habit. The flowers (late spring) are pink to salmon-pink, red, claret, purple, plum to almost black-purple, or cream.  A fantastic specimen plant for a rock or woodland garden, also nice in a container or as a mass groundcover planting. This very dwarf clone has a low and compact mounding habit and small, but abundant, plum-purple flowers. Best in light shade or morning sun in a moist but well-drained soil.