Strong growing plant with dark glossy foliage. A strong plant with an excellent growth habit. The very free flowering white blooms are tinted rose with a little yellow spotting. Unique foliage. The Finest Rhododendrons from around the world available from our online store to the whole of New Zealand. £13.50. (Purple Splendour x Blue Peter) OCTOBER FLOWERING Very showy purple flowers with dark blotch. You can’t turn silver leaves to green again and the new foliage will get affected unless you do something to alter conditions. Beautiful display in mid to late October. Early season. USDA Zone: 6 to 9. Predominant Flower Color: Purple Flower/Truss Description: Flower flat, up to 2" across, light purple, unmarked. The blooms are beautifully fragrant and toned palest pink to white with a speckled blotch of yellow in the centre. Plant in dappled light with acid soil and mulch annually to keep the roots cool. (Marinus Koster x Loderi Venus) OCTOBER FLOWERING Very large pastel pink trusses. September. Lovely salmon-orange flowers produced mid-season. Bell shaped deep yellow flowers on compact bush. One of the earliest reds, flowering late August. Cultivation. Nice compact habit. Pale lave... READ MORE. Compact bush with dull green foliage. White snowball like flowers in late October. Very sweetly scented. Flowers early to mid season. Subscribe. New growth bronze. (Yak bybrid) OCTOBER FLOWERING Pink flowers overlaid cream in mid-season. Join now. (dichroanthum x griersonianum) OCTOBER FLOWERING Apricot-yellow flushed salmon-pink in bell-shaped loose trusses. Light ivory yellow flowers. Soft apple blossom coloured flowers touched with deeper pink. Breeding has created many compact forms for smaller gardens. Hardy. Good compact plant. Deepest and most glossy green foliage. Blue Diamond Small violet blue flowers cover this upright, compact plant. (leucaspis x edgeworthii) SEPTEMBER FLOWERING Large white flowers with yellow eye. (probably Ponticum hybrid) OCTOBER / NOVEMBER FLOWERING Frilly, trumpet-shaped lavender-blue flowers, with purple flare. AUGUST/SEPTEMBER FLOWERING Identical to Unique except for flower colour which is pale pink with some yellow in throat. Classified as a Dwarf Rhododendron. An excellent compact plant. $34.99 Quantity. Glossy olive green leaves. Smothered in frilled flowers of pink-apricot with red spot in throat late October -November. Heat tolerant. Growing tips . Rhodo Blue Diamond sport Variegated sport from Blue Dia... READ MORE. Violet blue flowers in Mid-April. Hallelujah. Compact habit, Early season flowering. Flowers have a wavy edge and delicate spotting. Compact grower and free flowering. Disclaimer Some of the information listed on these pages is provisional. Flowers freely. About us. Striking red flowers in a rounded truss. Suggested uses. Dense, fine-branched stems grow vertically. (Jean Marie de Montague x Indiana) Very bright deep blood red flowers in rounded tight trusses. Flowers mid - late season. Currant red flowers with a darker centre. October flowering. Glossy dark green foliage. Hardy. Zones 5 to 8. November flowering. Pink buds open to white flowers with a pale pink blush to the outer petal. Early mid season. Prefers moist acid rich soils. Large purplish-red flowers have a slight brownish spotting on the upper lobe. October flowering. Deep red flowers with a black blotch in tight ball shaped trusses. (griersonianum x Mars) OCTOBER / NOVEMBER FLOWERING Bright red flowers in heavy trusses. The "blue" ones all look very similar, but they are never actually blue! Grows well in full sun. Requires good drainage and dappled shade. YAK HYBRID. Blue Peter Light lavender blue, prominent purple flare. Mid season flowering. October flowering. Bushy habit with neat rounded leaves. Wide mounded habit. Happiest in semi-shade with acid soil. Hybrid of Waterer from 1800's . Upright grower with neat foliage. Please contact the following persons with corrections: Brian Coker email: b.hcoker@xtra.co.nz or Joy O’Keefe email: joybernie@gmail.com click on photos to enlarge them Yak Hybrid) Lavender/pink flowers on dark green foliage. Foliage deep green with red stems. (Orange Marmalade x Unique)SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER FLOWERING Bright red buds open to rosy pink flowers with an orange throat. (Cup Day x Purple Splendour) OCT - NOV FLOWERING Flowers of soft red purple with heavy dark spotting on upper lobe and centre. Requires peaty soil, and acidic fertilizer. (Moser's Maroon x arboreum) SEPTEMBER FLOWERING Bright scarlet waxy red with maroon spots. Deep red buds open glowing red, black speckling, vigorous, early-mid season. Large trumpets of frilly soft mauve/blue flowers that have a punch of purple in the centre of each bloom. Loose, ball shaped trusses of ruffled rose coloured flowers that change to soft pink with red speckles. 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