Rhododendron Easydendron English Roseum Inkarho

Rhododendron Easydendron English Roseum Inkarho is a reliable and robust variety, appreciated and awarded. It has been grafted with "Inkharo" to show improved tolerance to slightly limestone or clayey soils. It forms a rounded bush of beautiful stature with elongated, shiny green leaves, boasting a spring flowering so abundant that its foliage is almost hidden. Its large, lilac pink flowers are speckled with orange-brown. Gifted with good cold resistance, but also heat resistance, a quality not so common in these plants, this selection once reserved for ericaceous soil beds can now be planted in a wider variety of conditions, even in slightly limestone or heavy soils. With its lush appearance, this large bush creates superb screens at the back of flower beds or majestic evergreen hedges.

Rhododendrons are plants from the ericaceae family, just like heathers. The history of Inkharo Rhododendrons, somewhat revolutionary plants, began in Germany over 20 years ago. The discovery of a rhododendron naturally growing in a chalk quarry led to the consideration of grafting different varieties onto its extraordinary root system. Shrubs obtained by this method tolerate a wide range of soils with a pH ranging from 4.5 to 7.5, provided they are loose, fertile, moist, and not excessively calcareous. In summary, a soil suitable for hydrangeas. The English Roseum cultivar forms a large bush with a slightly spreading rounded habit, as wide as it is tall. Its growth is relatively fast, reaching an average of 2 m in all directions (sometimes up to 2.50 m in span) in good conditions. The branches are abundantly covered with beautiful glossy dark olive green, narrow, slightly arched, oblong-shaped evergreen leaves. The remarkably abundant flowering occurs from late May to mid-June. The large flowers are grouped in large spherical clusters, with up to 10 funnel-shaped flowers. The colour of the flowers at blooming is a rich pink. Over time, they take on a more mauve hue and reveal a bronzed speckled throat occupied by long curved pink stamens.

Rhododendron English Roseum Inkarho is a very hardy plant, down to approximately -25°C. It will thrive in partial shade in moist, humus-bearing, loose soil. In the garden, with its abundant and delicate flowering, it easily dresses up a shaded area of the garden, alongside Ferns, blue or variegated hostas, Pieris, shrubby Heathers, Kalmias, Azaleas, and Japanese maples, or other rhododendrons from the same group to create superb patchworks of textures and colours. It is versatile and you can also plant it alongside many other flowering shrubs, not necessarily acid-loving: hydrangeas, autumn camellias. Japanese Anemones will also be good companions, as well as bugbanes and foxgloves, in the undergrowth. In a large garden, it could even form a majestic hedge along a grand avenue, alongside other large rhododendrons.