Rhodoleia henryi Pollinator and mixed shrub groupings where

and mixed shrub groupings where the arching

In late spring and early summer the shrub carries airy clusters of pale lavender flowers

Samuel Buckley

wrote of the species that the flowers appear over such a great time frame and are so fragrant that to not try the plant is to cheat one's garden

and the plant earned the folk name kidney-bush along the way

Rhodoleia henryi Pollinator and mixed shrub groupings whereThe lesser known of the two Hong Kong roses in the Woodlanders collection, Rhodoleia henryi is a handsome evergreen shrub or small tree from southern China and Taiwan, still little grown in the United States and, like much of the genus, occasionally muddled in the naming. Set beside the sister species Rhodoleia championii, this plant carries narrower, more pointed leaves, and the species is reckoned the more cold hardy of the two, a useful distinction