Rhododendron 'Susan'
campanulatum X
fortunei
AM 1930; AM 1948; FCC 1954; (AGM removed 2012)
Flowers: c12-16/truss, open funnel-shaped, 75 x 90mm, 5-lobed, light purple, dorsal lobes darker, heavily speckled maroon.
Mid-April - Mid-May
Foliage: elliptic, 140 x 65mm, dark green above, thinly felted below when young.
Shrub 2.0m in 10 years.
Location: Ramster 2008
Photo: Miranda Gunn