Rhododendrons with Outstanding foliage:
Bear in mind that for 11 months of the year you have only the leaves to enjoy. Happily many rhododendrons have outstanding foliage and Glendoick have specialised in raising plants with outstanding foliage effects. Many varieties have coloured young growth which can be as spectacular as flowering. Many have a covering of silvery or brown hairs on the leaves known as indumentums, which can give a long-lasting attractive effect.
Outstanding foliage coloured leaves:
- Everred (red leaves) Wine and Roses (red leaves),
- Ramapo, fastigiatum, Intrifast (blue leaves),
- pachysanthum, Viking Silver (silvery leaves)
- Variegation: ‘Molten Gold’, ‘Red and Gold’.
Outstanding foliage: indumentum: downy hairs giving a felted or plastered covering on the leaf underside and often on the upper surface on the young growth.
- bureavii,
- pachysanthum,
- rex,
- Ken Janeck,
- falconeri ssp. eximeum,
- yakushimanum
Outstanding foliage, large leaves:
- sinogrande,
- macabeanum,
- falconeri,
- calophytum,
- hemsleyanum
Evergreen Azaleas With fine dark red winter foliage:
- Marushka,
- Glendoick Goblin.
Deciduous azaleas with coloured foliage/young growth:
- Midsummer Mermaid (blue-grey),
- Fireball, Klondyke (red-bronze young growth)
