The artificial species name R. gandavense is often used for all the cultivars of the Ghent Hybrids. These hardy plants originated in Belgium and England in the 1800s from crosses between many different species. This cultivar is an Old Ghent […]

The artificial species name R. gandavense is often used for all the cultivars of the Ghent Hybrids. These hardy plants originated in Belgium and England in the 1800s from crosses between many different species. This cultivar is an Old Ghent […]

Upright, deciduous azalea with elliptic, shiny, dark-green leaves and large trusses of funnel-shaped, frilly, light pink flowers. Both height and width 8 to 20 feet. Reddish leaves in the fall. The deciduous native azalea, like it’s hybrid counterpart, is known […]

Fragrant flowers, white with yellow blotches. Grows 5 to 6 feet in height. The deciduous native azalea, like it’s hybrid counterpart, is known for excellent fall color and unsurpassed spring flowers. The deciduous azalea is usually less picky about soil, […]

The Satsuki hybrids are hardy to 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Their compact form and neat appearance has made them a favorite for the smaller garden, bonsai work or as a foreground grouping. The large flowers start late in the season. Popular […]

The PJM group of rhododendrons are smaller, growing to a height of 3 to 6 feet tall. Form is rounded and foliage is dark green until fall when it turns almost purplish. Produces trusses of 4 to 9 small, funnel-shaped, […]

Alice exhibits typical characteristics of growth and habit, bearing dark pink flowers. Evergreen shrub with oblong, glossy, dark green leaves that are slightly paler underneath. Flowers appear in late midseason. Tolerates sun and wind. There are between 500 and 900 […]

Album Elegans, like Album, bears white flowers, but it is not quite so cold-hardy as Album. VIgorous, shrubby, evergreen “ironclad” rhododendron with medium leaves. Flowers bloom in late midseason. Tolerates sun and wind. There are between 500 and 900 species […]

A. Bedford bears periwinkle-purple flowers with darker splashes. Evergreen shrub with glossy, dark-green leaves. Flowers bloom in late midseason. Toleraates sun and wind. Grows best in zones 4 to 8. There are between 500 and 900 species of evergreen and […]

Large-leaved, evergreen shrub of open habit with tight, rounded trusses of funnel-shaped, lavender-blue flowers. Blue Peter is the best known larger “blue” flowered hybrid. Very frilly pale lavender-blue flowers, with a purple flare, in a tight conicla truss of around […]