Rhododendron 'Blue Baron'
Rhododendron 'Blue Baron' is a semi-dwarf, compact, evergreen shrub with unique violet-blue flowers in spring.
Description:
Rhododendron 'Blue Baron' is a stunning cultivar with intense violet-blue flower buds opening up to clusters of lighter, near-blue trumpet-shaped flowers with lavender throats -- all most uncommon colours for rhodos! Plants make for an attractive specimen in the sunny to part shade garden with a nice, compact, mounding habit averaging 3-4 feet tall and wide displaying finely textured, elliptical foliage that is glossy green in summer with bronze tones in winter. Slow growing. Use in the mixed shrub border, as a specimen, in the foreground of larger flowering shrubs, or in containers.
Common Name: Rhododendron
Family: Ericaceae (The Heath Family)
Zone Hardiness: 6-9
Light: Full Sun, Part Shade, Part Sun
Height: 2-4'
Width: 2-3'
Primary Bloom Colour: Blue
Secondary Bloom Colour: Purple
Class: Evergreen
Type: Shrub
Bloom Time: Spring
Soil Moisture: Average, Moist
Stem Colour:
Fragrance: No
Berries:
Benefits:
Deer Resistant: Yes
BC Native: No
Native Habitat:
Award:
Geogrpahical Origin: Asia and the Pacific - Asia - China and Japan
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