Rhododendrons
Winsome AGM
Rhododendron 'Winsome'
Humming Bird x griersonianum
(so griersonianum, haematodes ssp.haematodes and williamsianum)
Bodnant 1939
H3
AM 1950, AGM (1993) 2012
2m by 2m
10 year height/spread: 1.5m/1.5m
Flowers: floppy one sided trusses of about 8 red buds open to startling cherry pink flowers.
May.
Small dark matt pointed leaves, bronze when young, with a thin indumentum. Comapct upright growth.
Recognise by: hard to describe why, but unmistakeable in flower, and the foliage is both nice and unusual.
Easy to root and grow, and very floriferous in any exposure in the UK.
Leonardslee
