Catalogue: White & Cream rhododendron varieties

Beauty of Littleworth
griffithianum x campanulatum?

White tinged deep purplish pink at edges, heavily spotted deep purplish-red on upper petal.Vigorous growing plant that can become leggy if not pruned. Branches often bent by weight of flower trusses. Prefers morning sun.
 1.8m
 Flowers October

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Belle Heller
Catawbiense Album x catawbiense seedling, white

Flower funnel-shaped, 4" across, white with a large golden blotch. Held in ball-shaped truss.

* Flowers October
* 3m

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Bronze Wings
possibly 'Elizabeth x williamsianum hybrid

Pink buds open to creamy white flowers with rosy edges. New foliage is a deep bronze-red, a very striking feature. Plant in part shade
 1.2m
 Flowers October

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Buna
Yaku Sunrise x Lems Cameo

Rich biscuity-yellow flowers open from peachy cream buds. Very floriferous. Well formed trusses of very open, star like flowers. Dense mounding habit and deep green foliage. A fantastic plant.

 1.2m
 Flowers late September / early October

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Cameo x Yak
yakushimanum x Lems Cameo

NEW RELEASE
Absolutely masses of domed trusses cover this small growing plant. Peachy pink buds open to creamy flowers. Slow growing with an excellent habit.

 60cm
 Flowers October/November

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Chionoides
Ponticum hybrid

Tolerant of sun and exposure, a compact good doer. Plant growers wider than high. White dome truss speckled yellow. An older variety enjoying a resurgence.

 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Cinnamon Bear
(bureavii x yakushimanum 'Koichiro Wada')

This plant is probably the finest foliage plant you can find. Masses of soft cinnamon indumentum. Tight round trusses of pure white follow a light pink bud.

 60cm
 Flowers October

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Countess of Haddington
ciliatum x dalhousiae var. dalhousiae

Flower funnel-shaped, fragrant, white flushed pale rose. Very lax trusses of 2-6 flowers.

 1.5m
 Flowers September/October

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County of York
Catawbiense Album x Loderi King George

Flower broadly funnel-shaped, white with olive-green blotch in throat. Held in dome-shaped trusses of 13 flowers. Prefers light shade.

 2m
 Late October

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Cream Crest
(rupicola var. chryseum x Cilpinense)

"Alpine Rhododendron"

An upright plant with small leaves that bear beautiful dainty cream flowers in late September. Leaves very glossy and deep green. Spreading habit.

 1m
 Flowers late September

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Cream Glory
('Comstock' x 'Cheyenne')

Flowers deep buttery cream. Rounded leaves deepest green.

 1.2m
 Flowers October

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Cream Supreme
(Colonel Cohen x unknown)

NEW

A NZ hybrid released by Lew Hutchison. Soft apricot buds open to cream flowers with some pink flares on the outer lobes. Bright green gold speckling on the upper lobe. Very delicate in appearance but actually quite robust.

 1.2m
 Flowers October/November

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creamy chiffon
Unknown x unknown

Flower widely funnel-shaped, semi-double, hose-in-hose, wavy edges, light yellow with brownish-orange spots in throat and some pinkish shading, fades to pale greenish yellow. Held in flat trusses of 7.

*1.2m
*Flowers November

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Cunningham's White
(caucasicum x ponticum)

Opens white with a pale yellow eye. Will grow almost anywhere, including sunny spots. Flowers are yellowish white and profusely cover the dwarf plant. Habit is tidy and compact with attractive foliage.

 1.5m
 Flowers October/November

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Dora Amateis
(minus var minus Carolinianum Group x ciliatum)

Pure white flowers with faint greenish-yellow spotting on dorsal lobe. Low growing bushy plant that will stand full sun.

 1m
 Flowers October

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Elsie Frye
(ciliicalyx hybrid)

Beautiful sweet fragrance is carried by these thick waxy like flowers. Pink buds open to white flowers with creamy yellow centres and some apple blossom pink on the outside of the flowers. Very vigorous.

 1.2m
 Flowers September / October

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Gold Fort

Flowers are pale ivory cream. Foliage has long leaves.

 2m
 Flowers October

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Greers Cream Delight

Large cream flowers with a golden flare and lavender markings are beautifully displayed in large trusses against attractive evergreen foliage in spring. Bushy habit.

 1.5 x 1.5m

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Grumpy
degronianum ssp yakushimanum x unnamed hybrid

Pale pink buds open to cream flowers with pale pink at edges. Fades to cream color. Lax trusses holds 8-11 flowers.

 1m
 Late October

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Harry Tagg
Albescens x ciliicalyx

Flower fragrant, white, tinged pink on reverse, with a faint greenish-yellow throat. Held in trusses of 3-4 flowers.
*Flowers October
*1.2m

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Helene Schiffner
(arboreum x )

White flowers with yellow markings. Very popular white. Perfect, upright, dome shaped trusses. Narrow, deep green leaves have reddish stems and completely cover the plant.

 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Hoppy
yakushimanum x Doncaster selfed

Light mauve lavender flowers fading to pure white. Slight orange speckling inside throat. Very upright bush

 1.2m
 Flowers October/November

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Horizon Monarch
('Nancy Evans' x 'Point Defiance')

Highly recommended. Apricot buds open to creamy yellow flowers. Trusses are full and round on dark green large leaves.

 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Irene Bain
degronianum ssp yakushimanum x May Day Group

Flower openly funnel-shaped, open pale pink, fading to cream with a pink, frilly edge.

 1m
 Flowers September/October

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Keay Slocock

Peach coloured buds open to cream flowers held in rounded trusses. Flowers and foliage identical to rhododendron "Unique"

 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Kiwi Mum
Kiwi Magic x Nancy Evans

Delightful Creamy peach rhododendron created by Jeff Elliott and one of the fabulous "Kiwi" Series. See also Kiwi Magic and Kiwi Flash. Flowers are equally as magically as all the others Jeff has created.

*Flowers October
*1.2m

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Kiwi Pearl
('Lems' Goal' x 'Fabia')

Full round trusses of rich cream flowers. Thick dark green leaves.

 1.2m
 Flowers October

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Kotuku

A very hardy rhododendron that copes with heat and cold. Pale Pink Buds open to
white flowers with a gold eye. Fragrant.

* 1.8m
*Flowers Late

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Lemon Ice

Neat round truss of white flowers with lemon yellow blotch. Free flowering, vigorous and bushy.

*1.2m
*Flowers October/November

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Lem's Monarch
(Anna x Marinus Koster)

This plant is very easy to recommend, it is hardy, floriferous and has a good habit. Makes a fantastic long lasting display in flower. Strong pink buds open to white flowers edged with soft pink.

 1.2m
 Flowers late November

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Loders White
arboreum ssp cinnamomeum var album x griffithianum

A large dome shaped shrub, covered to the ground in handsome foliage. Flowers in a magnificent conical truss, with pale pink buds opening to white, slightly frilly flowers.

 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Lyn's Memory
(Hotei x lems cameo)

Large flowers, strong pink buds open to pink edged flowers fading to reach cream centres.

 1.5m
 Flowers early October

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Melody
(yakushimanum x leo)

Predominantly white flowers with a pale pink edging that is frilled.

 1.2m
 Flowers October

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Mi Amor
(lindleyi x nuttallii)

Strong perfume. Large white flowers with flushed yellow throat. Heavily textured leaves. Vigorous growing and a little open in habit. One of our most popular fragrant rhodos. Protect buds from heavy frost


 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Mollie's Gift

A tought NZ yak hybrid that flowers with soft lavender pink flowers on a neat deep green bush.

 50cm
 Flowers October

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Mount Everest
(possibly campanulatum, griffithianum and catawbiense)

Prolific producer or white flowers with a little red brown speckling in the throat. One of our most popular white rhodos.

 1.2m
 Flowers September / October

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Neato
(campanulatum x yakushimanum)

Leaves broad and deep green with heavy indumentum underneath. The trusses are made up of 25 flowers, producing a tight round ball of white. Pink buds fade to blush edges on white flowers.

 1m
 Flowers October / November

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Pawhuska
(Palmer x Loderi King George)

Showy white flowers appear from a hint of blush buds. Tall trusses, large glossy green foliage.

 2m
 Flowers September / October

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Phyllis Korn
(Diane x Gomer Waterer)

Upright, well branched grower. Flowers soft creamy yellow with a touch of red in the throat.

 1.5m
 Flowers October / November

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Pink Cherub
(yakushimanum x Doncaster)

A vigorous compact plant. Flower white flushed with light pink.

 1m
 Flowers October

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Platinum Ice
(augustinii x maddenii)

Ice blue florets that change to white. Heavily textured large flowers. 4-5 per truss.

 1.8m
 Flowers November

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Polar Bear
diaprepes x auriculatum

Large fragrant white flowers with a green throat. Needs some shade.

 1.5m
 Flowers November

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Polyandrum
Species

Delicious blush pink/creamy intensely fragrant trumpt rhododendron. Very attractive foliage.

*1.2m
*Late October/November

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Princess Alice
(edgeworthii x ciliatum)

A compact plant with pale pink buds opening to white flowers that are intensely fragrant. Needs to be sheltered from frost. Would be lovely under a window. One of Marina's favourites!

 1m
 Flowers October

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Rainbow
(griffithianum hybrid)

White flowers edged deep pink are striking. A large plant making a real show. Dark matt green foliage on a bushy vigorous plant.

 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Sappho
(unknown)

A green growing bush bearing conical trusses mauve in bud, opening to pure white with a conspicuous blotch of rich purple-black. Very beautiful and very popular, this one goes quickly. very similar to Peeping Tom.

 2m
 Flowers October

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Sapporo
Hachmann's Diadem x Hyperion

Flower broadly funnel-shaped, wavy-edged, opens pale purple tinged purplish-pink on veins especially on outside with a deep purplish-red blotch. Quickly fades to white with age. Round trusses hold 8-10 flowers.

 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Silver Sixpence

upright, rounded, evergreen shrub with deep green leaves. In late spring to early summer it has creamy, trumpet flowers that have attractive yellow spots

*1m
*Flowers October

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Sino Grande

The leaves on R. 'Sino Grande'can get to 18"x12" and have beautiful veining on top of the leaves. The indumentum is a silver gray. The flowers are pale yellow on a large upright truss. This species is one of the giants of the rhododendron world.

 Will get up to 10 metres
 Flowers after many years - a long wait!

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Sleepy
(degronianum ssp yakushimanum x Doncaster)

Flowers open rosy pink in bud but fade to white.

 1m
 Flowers November

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Sneezy
(degronianum ssp. yakushimanum x Doncaster)

Dark Pink Buds opent to a soft pink flower with a white eye deep inside the flower. Wine red spotting on the lobe.


 1.5m
 Flowers Late October

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Snow Lady
(leucaspis x cilliatum)

Nice compact plant with masses of creamy white flowers with brown stamens.

 1m
 Flowers September

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Starbright Sateurnes

A very unusual star shaped flower. Each petal is long and pointed. Light champagne in colour with a dark eye Compact growth.

 1.2
 Flowers October

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Tanana
(R. decorum ssp decorum x R. degronianum ssp yakushimanum 'Exbury Yakushimanum'):

Flowers, white with yellowish green spots.

*1m
*Flowers October.

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Tiana
(Sappho x yakushimanum Exbury form)

Lovely white butterfly shaped blooms with burgundy blotches. This plant has a compact growth habit with dark green foliage. Frilly edges make it different to Sappho. Another similar rhodo is Peeping Tom.

 1.2m
 Flowers October

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Triumph de Grande

Masses of huge big trusses of white flowers with red spotting on the upper lobe.

 1.8m
 Flowers September/October

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Unique
(camplyocarpum hybrid)

Fantastic all round performer for flower and foliage. Beautiful buttery cream flowers smother the plant.

 1.2m
 Flowers September / October

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Virginia Richards
(wardii x FC Puddle) x (Mrs Betty Robertson)

Both attractive foliage and flower. Compact habit with glossy leaves and flowers which open pink and fade to cream.

 1.5m
 Flowers October

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White Gold
(Mrs. J. G. Millais' x Cheyenne)

The flowers are a pure stark white rolled back at the edges as if trying to show every inch of the golden blotch within. The blotch begins as a burning orange deep in the throat, then widens and lightens into rays of golden yellow reaching out onto the upper lobe.

 1.5m
 Flowers November

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White Pearl
(griffithianum x maximum)

Tall conical trusses with pink buds opening to pure white, giving a delightful two tone effect. Good pleasing foliage cover this plant which is vigorous and ultimately large growing.

 2m
 Flowers September / October

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White Swan
(decorum x Pink Pearl)

Huge perfect trusses of satin white are exceptionally showy. Tall growing with tough grey green foliage. One of the best whites.

*2m
*Flowers October.

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williamsianum
Species

Small Spreading dome shaped shrub, with tiny bell like flowers that are palest pink and white.

*60cm
*Early October

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Yak Angel
(form of yakushimanum ssp. Yakushimanum)

A dwarf plant with a spreading growth habit that is wider than tall. Deep green leaves have brown indumentum, with new growth white-tomentose. Mauve pink buds open to trusses of white flowers.

 75cm
 Flowers October

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Yak Pac Walport
A selection of yakushimanum pacysanthum.

A pure white round truss is excellent. Very compact grower, with heavy cinnamon indumentum on new growth. Looks fantastic all year.

 1m
 Flowers October / November

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Yak preyii

A fantastic foliage plant with white indumentum and tomentum. Delicate pink buds open to pure white flowers in a good round truss.

 1m
 Flowers September / October

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