Rhododendrons

Bernard Crisp

Rhododendron 'Bernard Crisp'

'Pink Pearl' x un-named Hardy Hybrid

Waterer, Bagshot before 1920

AM 1921

H5

Medium sized shrub.

Flowers: Funnel-shaped, 50mm long x 70-80mm wide, bright mauve pink with paler centre, lightly marked crimson brown on dorsal lobe

Foliage: Elepidote

Other Information: Named for Bernard Crisp who became a director of John Waterer & Sons after his firm, Wargrave Plant Farm, amalgamated with Waterer’s of Bagshot in 1914. Unlikely to be commercially available

 

Location: Ramster Gardens

Photo: Miranda Gunn