DWARF AND SMALLER-GROWING RHODODENDRON SPECIES

This is a dwarf mounding alpine shrub with small and colorful glaucous blue-green leaves. The flat-faced flowers are rose-crimson with darker crimson spots on the upper lobes in mid-spring. Easy in sun or light shade and an excellent specimen or rock garden plant. The flowers and new foliage provide a striking color combination. One of the finest of the dwarf species. 

Dwarf mounding alpine shrubs with small glaucous blue-green leaves. The flat-faced flowers are rose-crimson with darker crimson spots on the upper lobes in mid-spring. Easy in sun or light shade and an excellent rock garden plant. The flowers and new foliage provide a striking color combination. One of the finest of the dwarf species, this selection is very similar in appearance to the famous clone ‘Gigha’.  

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. Nice large plants this year.

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.

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.

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.