Millais Nurseries
Big Leaved Rhododendrons
Wonderful architectural plants with huge leaves up to 60cm long! These are choice woodland Rhododendrons needing the very best sheltered positions to allow them to grow to their full stature of up to 5 metres. As a bonus, flowering will typically start after 6 years.
Big leaved Rhododendrons are among the more tender of our range, but are well worth trying if you have the correct conditions. They are best suited to sheltered woodland in the milder regions of the UK, though they can also be used as feature plants in sheltered courtyard gardens. Winter protection is recommended for young plants.
Rhododendron calophytum AGM (seed raised)
This plant has wonderful loose white or pale pink flowers with a deep reddish blotch and spots. Flowering in March-April it has exceptional large bright green leaves up to 36cm long. It will develop into an umbrella shaped tree. Height 150cm in 10 years. Big leaf Rhododendron species have great architectural foliage which looks stunning in a woodland setting or city courtyard garden. However, the lovely...
Rhododendron Exbury Calstocker
Huge white flowers marked with a crimson blotch, in large trusses. A stunning early April flowering hybrid with impressive strong handsome looking foliage, perfect in a sheltered woodland situation. Height 180cm in 10 years.
Recommended for: stunning early white flowers.
Plantsman range.
Ideal position: Sheltered woodland.
Habit: Open.
Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
Parentage: calophytum (s) X...
Rhododendron Rexima
(H5) An interesting foliage plant, combining the winning traits of R. yakushimanum and R. rex. Lilac pink in bud, opening white with a dark red basal blotch and markings in May. Large dark green leaves with brown indumentum on the undersides, and a fluffly light tomentum on the new leaves, which have been inherited from the big leaved R. rex, but growing in a useful compact habit due its yakushimanum...
Rhododendron Whidbey Island
This is a superb recent American introduction with wonderful big leaf foliage. It has pale purple flowers with a deeper edging and a dark blotch. Flowering in April, it has silvery young growth, with a wonderful tan indumentum on the underside of the leaves. It does need some wind shelter but it makes a wonderful plant of upright habit. Height 150cm in 10 years, then taller.
Raised at Meerkerk Rhododendron...