red flowering rhododendrons

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planting	care	hybridizing
sowing	cuttings	grafting

white	pink	red
orange	rhodo-	blue
yellow	index	species

evergreen

deciduous

crosses:	first ##
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Assortment of red Rhododendrons

The colour red is very hard to photograph and film. You soon get a wrong coloration or everything is just one ball of red. And so it is not easy for critical gardeners to use red flowering plants in the garden. Combinations with white and pink will do well then.

Assortiment in colors:
Rhododendron hybrids with:
red flowers;
pink flowers;
white flowers;
purple\lilac\blue flowers;
yellow flowers;
orange flowers;
species.

'Ovation'

'Abendsonne' - fine red-orange flowers, M, hH
'Andantino' - large flowers, E,hH, very cold hardy.
'Astrid' - yakushimanum # with real red flowers; M, hH
'August Lamken' - rosy-red, M, hH.
'Berliner Liebe' - M, hH, flowers as a larger plant.
'Baden Baden' - bright red, M, C, repens #.
'Bambi' - rosy-red, M, C.
'Blinklicht' * - fine red flowers; M, hH.
'Brittannia' - pure red, M, hH, must be grafted!!
'Captain Jack' - bloodred, ML, hH, Pn.
'Carmen', very dark red and compact. C, M.
'Creeping Jenny' - bright red, creeping; E, C.
'Crimson Pippin' - M, C, dark red
'Django' - very cold hardy! R. brachycarpum #; M, C tot hH.
'Dr. H. C. Dresselhuis' - purple-red; M, H.

'Red Jack'

'Dr. V.H. Rutgers' - old wellknown, purple-red, M, hH.
'Elisabeth Hobbie' - repens#, bright red; M, C.
'Erato' *- dark red, not fading. M, hH
'Eruption' *- red with white star in center! M, hH
'Fantastica' - red flowers, red center; M, C;
'Firestorm' very dark-red and cold hardy; hH, ML
'Glutkissen' - R. forrestii #, low growing, E, C.
'Grace Seabrook' - bright red, E, H, (nightfrost!)
'Hachmann's Feuerschein' * - deep red; ML, hH
'Halfdan Lem' - fine bright red. M, hH\H,Pn
'Heart's Delight' - large flowers on a great plant; hH, M
'Junifeuer' - red with yellow blotch, L, hH.
'Jean Marie de Montague' - brilliant glowing red; M, hH.
'Joyston Red' - a beautiful repens #; E, C
'Kluis Triumph' - terracotta red, ML, hH till H.
'Lissabon' - williamsianum #; M, C.
'Nathalie' - purple-red, M, hH

'Negrito' - as the name says, very dark red, M, hH.
'Nova Zembla' - purple-red, M, hH; in every garden already
'Old Port' - purple-red, ML, hH.
'Parsifal' - pinkish red, M, hH
'Rabatz' * - new from Hachmann, deep red; M, hH.
'Red Impulse' - deep red, from the USA; M, hH.
'Red Jack' - introduction form Boskoop; fine red!; M, hH.
'President Roosevelt' - red+white center; variegated!; E\M; hH
'Scarlet Wonder' - repens #, bright red, M, C.
'Sammetglut' - deep red+ white stamens; M, hH
'Sarasate' - dark red with blotch and white stamens! M, hH
'Taurus' - large red flowers, E, H, take care for nightfrost
'Taragona' - bloodred, distinctive flowers, ML, hH.
'Titian Beauty' - apart rosy-red flowers, M, hH.
'Trocadero', - bright red and late flowering! L, hH.
'Venetian Chimes' - rosy-red, M, C.
'Vulcan' - fiery red, M, hH.
'Vulcan's Flame' - as Vulcan, but winterharder (?)

E= early flowering, March\April
M= flowering in May
L= flowering fromJune- August
C= compact till 3 feet in 10 years

hH= growing till 7 feet in 10 years.
H= higher than 7 feet in 10 years.
Pn= protection needed from (heavy frost and dry winds