Christmas Rhododendron. Broadleaf deciduous shrub about 5 6 ft 1 5 1 8 m tall with a similar spread rounded slow growing. Foliage is dark green turning to brozy purple in fall.
Christmas cheer and its near twin rosa mundi have no rivals in their bloom time of late winter. Lighting up the dull days of winter rhododendron christmas cheer is a remarkable sight when in full bloom from late winter to early spring. This medium sized evergreen shrub bears rounded trusses counting up to 8 open funnel shaped flowers 2 in.
Christmas cheer is a popular rhododendron for uk gardens with its perfect pink blue flowers.
Genus rhododendron can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs or trees with simple leaves sometimes with a dense colourful indumentum of hairs on the lower side and funnel shaped bell shaped or tubular flowers that may be solitary or in short racemes. Christmas cheer and its near twin rosa mundi have no rivals in their bloom time of late winter. Sometimes they begin to bloom in late january but more commonly bloom in february or early march. Foliage is dark green turning to brozy purple in fall.