Rhododendron ORAKEL

Orakel means ‘Prophecy' in German and it is a name for a fantastic variety of rhododendron bred by Holger Hachmann in 1998. It is a cross between Pfauenauge and Galaxis, launched in 2009. Its beautiful flowers have wavy margins, they are a warm tone of blueberry smoothie while the upper lobe is decorated with a dark blackberry blotch. Sounds yummy, doesn’t it? Individual flowers are 7-9 cm across, and one truss can accommodate 10-20 of them. Flowering begins in late May and continues until mid-June. The evergreen leaves are dark green, elongated, narrowly oval, partly glossy. Orakel grows upright into a handsome shrub about 100 cm high and wide ate the age of 10 year