Product Details
- Form: Large shrub
- Height: 1-1.3m
- Width: 1m
- Production: Container grown, suitable for planting all year round.
- Pot Size: 25ltr
- Position: Thrives in partial shade.
- Soil: Requires neutral to acid soil, add peat at time of planting. Roots are shallow and spreading.
- Interest: Evergreen leaves margined with cream borders. Lilac pink flowers borne at end of branches in spring.
- Rate of Growth: Up to 0.6m per year.
- Flowers: Clusters of lilac pink flowers are borne at the end of branches in spring.
- Hardiness: Hardy, however young flower buds can be damaged by frosts, where exposed to early morning sun in early spring.
Rhododendron ponticum ‘Variegatum’ is one of the few variegated rhododendrons, with leaves margined with a cream border. Produces lilac-pink flowers in late winter and early spring. Well suited to shady areas and forms a large shrub. This plant can reach a size of 1.5m high and 1.5m high in 10-20 years.
