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Agapetes are evergreen shrubs related to blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) but with larger and showier flowers. This is an epiphytic evergreen shrub with small rounded, glossy and deep green leaves arranged along long arching stems. Deep yellow, urn‑shaped flowers hang in clusters from late winter through mid‑spring. Requires excellent drainage and makes a great display in a moss‑lined hanging basket. A fantastic plant with an incredibly long season of bloom.

Agapetes are evergreen shrubs related to blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) but with larger and showier flowers. This is an epiphytic evergreen shrub with pendulous and arching, bristly stems and bright red new growth. The small, smooth leaves are ovate and slightly toothed and the tubular flowers are a pleasant solid rose‑red. New to cultivation and a great addition to the palette of Agapetes species in cultivation.

Agapetes are evergreen shrubs related to blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) but with larger and showier flowers. This species is an epiphytic evergreen shrub native to the temperate rainforests of the eastern Himalaya. This is an arching plant with bright pink-purple new growth. The small, very rugose and glossy leaves are ovate and slightly toothed and the tubular flowers which hang in clusters range from pink (indoor cultivation) to almost red (colder temps outside) with bright green tips. New to cultivation and a great addition to the palette of Agapetes species in cultivation.

Agapetes are evergreen shrubs related to blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) but with larger and showier flowers. This is an epiphytic evergreen shrub native to the temperate rainforests of the eastern Himalaya. This species features much larger leaves and flowers than any other species we have seen or grown here at the RSBG. The large ovate leaves with a prominent midrib are up to six inches long on long arching stems from a large basal lignotuber (a woody, water storage organ). In late summer the pendulous tubular flowers appear in large hanging clusters of up to 20 flowers per cluster. These hang below the leaves and are deep pink with darker pink chevrons and deep green lobe tips on the ends of the corolla tubes. Each flower is around 4 cm in length! Easily the most stunning of any Agapetes we have grown or offered.

Agapetes are evergreen shrubs related to blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) but with larger and showier flowers. This epiphytic evergreen shrub is a new introduction from the temperate rainforests of the eastern Himalaya. The smooth leaves are narrowly elliptic and about two to three inches in length. The tubular flowers are dark yellow with contrasting dark red‑purple chevrons on the tube, all highlighted by a large and dark red, very showy calyx. New to cultivation and a great addition to the palette of Agapetes species in cultivation. 

An interesting and beautiful “linking” or intermediate species between these two admittedly closely related genera. This has urn‑shaped, bright white flowers with strongly contrasting red corolla margins followed by pure white “blueberries”. Shiny and deeply rugose tiny and rounded leaves on long arching, hairy stems. A staff favorite and destined to inspire one of the world’s greatest selling earrings when the appropriately skilled artisan can be located. Great in a clay container or moss‑lined basket.

A seldom-grown relative of the familiar Bog Rosemary – Andromeda polifolia. This species is similar but with glaucous, broadly elliptic foliage on a dense, mat forming, very dwarf and slowly spreading, evergreen groundcover only a few inches in height. Pink pitcher-shaped flowers in clusters at the ends of the shoots in mid-spring. Best in a moist soil in full sun. Native to bogs, lakeshores and other moist areas from Greenland south to the northern USA (east of the Mississippi).