DWARF AND SMALLER-GROWING RHODODENDRON SPECIES

This is a rare evergreen shrub native to coastal Florida sand dunes that features dense bright green foliage and a low mounding "groundcover-like" habit. Pink flowers in mid-spring. Heat, drought and sun tolerant. A very unique and interesting species.   

This is a compact growing species with small and shiny, rounded leaves and masses of small but showy, flat flowers (late spring) ranging in color from white to pale pink or deep rose, often with purple spots. Bright reddish-purple new growth on this incredibly widespread and variable species. Much hardier than would be expected based upon its native range in southern China. These are grown from seed collected in the wild. Similar in the garden to its close relative ovatum, differing in botanical details.

This is a dwarf evergreen species with funnel-shaped pale pink flowers in late winter. Easy in sun or shade with sufficient drainage and drought tolerant once established. This form with unusual rounded hairy leaves, a bit smaller than typical, perhaps a link between this species and the clodely related dendrocharis?  

This is a dwarf evergreen species with funnel-shaped white to pale pink flowers in late winter/early spring. An epiphytic species in the wild and one of the first to bloom each spring. Easy in sun or shade with sufficient drainage and relatively drought tolerant once established. This is the white form with reddish flecks that blooms a bit earlier in the season than the more commonly cultivated pink forms. Large plants this year.  

An outstanding dwarf form of this variable species. This is a selected clone collected by Warren Berg from the top of Cheju Island, Korea. This plant has a dense dwarf habit, small dark green leaves and deep rose-purple flowers in early spring. Quite tough and adaptable. Very slow-growing and suitable for bonsai with excellent fall color.

An outstanding dwarf form of this variable species. This is a selected clone collected by Warren Berg from the top of Cheju Island, Korea. This plant has a dense dwarf habit, small dark green leaves and rose-purple flowers in early spring. Quite tough and adaptable. Very slow-growing and suitable for bonsai with excellent fall color.

Dwarf evergreen shrubs with tiny and densely scaly leaves. The flowers of this rarely grown species are violet in color. A fine alpine species with a dense, twiggy habit and attractive small leaves. This variety known to occur only on Emei Shan (Mt. Omei) in W Sichuan, China where it is found on exposed cliffs near the top of the mountain. One of the most growable of any member of subsection Lapponica in cultivation.

The first introduction into cultivation of the real oblongilobatum. These are grown from seed collected in the wild from the type location for this species in central Yunnan. Originally described as a variety of the valentinianum complex (which includes valentinianum, changii, valentinioides, etc.) in subsection Maddenia but the flowers have a sharply deflexed style which places it in subsection Boothia alongside species such as sulfureum and chrysodoron. Beautiful, rounded and glossy leaves with hairy margins on dwarf plants. Deep yellow flowers in mid-spring. These are really stunning foliage plants.