Rhododendron

EZ Mount Rubber Stamp

Rhododendron BB018

Rhododendrons exhibit an enormous diversity of size and shape, from prostrate groundcovers growing no more than a few inches high to trees more than 100 feet tall. Between the prostrate alpine forms and large trees are a variety of shrubby forms in all shapes and sizes. Leaf size ranges from less than 1/4 inch to over three feet long, and also appear in a variety of shapes: rounded, lance-shaped, and elliptical. The flowers may be white, red, pink, yellow, approximate blue, purple, magenta, orange, and in various shades and mixtures of most of these colours. There is diversity, too, in bark texture and colour.  And while March, April and May represent the peak months for flowering, some rhododendrons can flower as early as January in an ideal climate, and others as late as August.  The actual beauty of many is supreme, in flower, in decorative new growth, in foliage, in bark and in structure, even in fall colour so far as the deciduous azaleas are concerned.