A small shrub, with narrow, toothed, leathery leaves, 5-7.5cm long. flowers white, flushed pink, borne in racemes intermittently during spring and summer.

A low growing and hardy shrub with a good looking display of large pink flowers in spring followed by black berries. Quite frost hardy and can be grown in a wide range of climates. 

Origin: South East Asia

A pink Rhododendron Maddenii hybrid with pale pink flowers and a deeper striped pink- purple outside. Very beautiful hybrid by Arnold Teese growing rarely more than 2 metres.

Origin: Australia

  Delightful dwarf, mounded plant. White felted new growth. Beautiful pink buds turning snow white.

A beautiful shrub or occasionally a small tree with the general habit of a rhododendron and large, thick, shinning green leaves, glaucous beneath, crowding the tips of the stems. The drooping flower clusters consist of numerous silky-hairy, multi-coloured bracts through which emerge the bright, rose-madder petals and black anthers.

Well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. This tree/shrub will spread by root suckering.

Sumac are perhaps the best Autumn colouring plants period. Hardy large shrubs or small trees , these deciduous plants are show stoppers.

Smooth Sumac has wonderful alternate leaves 30-59 cm long that start out green. In Autumn the oranges and reds are truly stunning. I find this plant very easy too grow and tolerant of full sun. Native of the Americas from Canada south to Mexico.