Catalogue: Apricot, peach & orange rhododendron varieties

Alan Johnston

A trio of colours, red, orange and yellow. Fabulous compact form.

1m x 1m
October

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Apricot Nectar
[(dichroanthum x neriiflorum) x 'Fabia'] x 'Jalisco')

Compact plant with lovely apricot flowers
 1.2m
 Flowers October

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Apricot Road
Unknown

A compact variety with pale apricot and cream ruffled trusses. Produces flowers in spring with another flush in summer.

 1.2m

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Autumn Gold
(Discolour x fabia)

Distinctive salmon orange colour. Dense foliage. Tolerates heat. One of the hardiest and easy to grow of the orange rhodos.
 1.8m x 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Brasilia
(Omega x wardii) x (wardii x Alice Street)

Deep green foliage covering a compact rounded plant. Flowers are tri coloured opening creamy apricot slightly red with a golden yellow throat.

 50cm
 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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Canadian Sunset
degronianum ssp yakushimanum x Gipsy King

Flower vivid red to deep pink, fading in center to pale yellowish-pink with yellow cast. A final salmon colour. Compact Plant.

 1m
 Flowers October

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Crossbill

An upright rhododendron with small crinkled leaves that are bronze when young but change to green. Flowers are orange/yellow, tinged red and are upturned. Best in a sheltered position.

 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Earl Murray
Kubla Khan x Lem's Cameo

Fantastic Tropical Colours - this one walks out the nursery when it's in flower. A vigourous growing plant with an upright and well branched growth habit. Salmon orange flowers with wavy margins, paling in the centre.

*1.5m
*October

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Fife

 Flowers November

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Gary Wally

Soft apricot flowers on a neat bushy plant.

 1m
 Flowers October

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Golden Belle
discolor x 'Fabia'

Large flowers. Pink edges with Peach to Pale Yellow centre. Robust Plant. Hardy

*1.2m
*Flowers October/November

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Golden Witt
(dichroanthum x)

Low growing shiny foliage plant with loose trussed clear creamy yellow flowers with a red splash in throat.

*1m
*Flowers October

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Holy Moses
(smirnowii x King of Shrubs)

A sensational pastel orange & yellow bicolour. It sets gigantic buds. Good foliage.


*1.5m
*Flowers November

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Jingle Bells
('Lems' Goal' x 'Fabia')

Low growing dense shrub covered in loose trusses. Red in bud opening to warm yellow. Well known strong variety.

 1m
 Flowers September / October

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Kiwi Flash
(The Master x Whitney's Orange)

Large apricot pink flowers fading to a creamy apricot in the centre with a dark central eye. Flowers last very well, and are well presented in a large truss.

 1.5m
 Flowers October / November

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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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Lems Cameo
(dido x anna)

Large flowers of apricot cream with a pink glow piled up in frilly trusses.

 1.5m
 Flowers October

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Mount Loma Prieta
(concatenans x Full House)

Large trusses of soft apricot pink flowers.

 2m
 Flowers October

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Old Copper
(Vulcan x Fabia)

Late in the spring when most rhododendrons are finished blooming for the year, 'Old Copper' shows its large orange trusses. May do well in hotter climates too. A really good true orange colour. If you like this one then check out Trewithian Orange too.

 1.5m
 Flowers October / November

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Peggie Roberts
unknown

Compact peachy/yellow/apricot flower with a dark eye deep inside the flower. Slightly wavy petals,

*1m
*Flowers November

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Percy Wiseman
(yakushimanum x Fabia Tangerine)

A compact plant with dark green foliage. Trusses peachy yellow edged a little deeper.

 1m
 Flowers October

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Pierces Apricot
(lems hybrid)

Deep apricot buds open to medium trusses of apricot orange flowers. Foliage is tight and deep green whilst habit is low and spreading.

 1.5m
  Flowers early November

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Ring of Fire
Darigold x Idealist

Flower openly funnel-shaped, wavy edges, light yellow, edged with red, outside mostly red with some light yellow near the base. Held in dome-shaped truss of 10-12 flowers.

 1.5m
  Flowers November

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Southern Skies
Jacklofthouse variety

This is one from the Canadian hybridist Jack Lofthouse. Jack really mixes up the genes when he hybridizes and achieves amazing colours. Rich red buds open to yellowish pink with a yellow centre. Foliage is superb and the plant has a mounding habit.

 1m
 Flowers November

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Starbright Champagne
(Yaku Sunrise x Hansel) x (Lem's Cameo)

An unusual star shaped flower, each petal is long and pointed! The flowers are a dark champagne color with a dark purple throat. Great foliage on a dense, very rounded growing plant.

 1m
 Flowers October / November

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Tahitian Dawn
Lem's Cameo x Skipper

Flower widely funnel-shaped, wavy edges, deeply cut lobes, light pink with peach and apricot tones, dark red in throat. Round-shaped truss.

 Early October
 1.2m

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Trewithan Orange
(concatenans x Full House)

A remarkable hybrid with pendant shaped flowers of clear orange. The best clear orange there is. Needs dappled light shade.
Foliage is rounded and quite unique looking.

 1m
 Flowers September - October

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Unique Marmalade
(Orange marmalade x Unique)

Great plant with the best aspects of unique's habit. Bright red buds open to rosy pink flowers with an orange throat. The flowers have a wavy edge and delicate spotting. Very vibrant.

 1.2m
 Flowers September / October

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Whitney's late orange
(probably contains dichroanthum and a late flowering member of the Subsecti

A deep orange that flowers later in the spring. It is an upright growing plant with good shape. The solid orange flowers appear in a full truss to delight you after most rhododendrons are through flowering. Use this to extend the flowering season! The leaves are sharp pointed and a neat mistletoe green.

 1.5m
 Flowers November

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Willets
Lem's Cameo hybrid.

Salmon pink flowers held in a fabulous truss. This one goes fast so be in quickly.

 1.2m

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