Hollard Gardens

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Life form: Shrub - evergreen

Comments: Habit: Compact slow growing shrub to 1.2m tall.
Foliage: Small elliptic dark green leaves. Thin tan hairy layer when new.
Flowers: Dense umbels of funnel shaped flowers, rose in bud opening white with rose margins and red spots which gradually fade. October- November flowering. Very floriferous and showy every spring, flowering from a young age.
History: Seed collected off R. yakushimanum 'Koichiro Wada', open pollinated, and this clearly a cross with a nearby R. aberconwayi. A sister seedling to R. 'Frosted Ice' but slightly more compact in habit. Registered by Graham Smith.
Further information: Available from rhododendron nurseries in New Zealand.