R. occidentale SM-30 / 'Crescent City Gold' Web Specials

R. occidentale SM-30 / 'Crescent City Gold' Web SpecialsHere is one of the famous Smith Mossman cultivars from their collections they made in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties of Northern California. Most of their finds came from Stagecoach Hill and Crescent City, both areas adjacent to the Pacific Ocean. This cultivar has large white flowers with a rich butter yellow flare in the upper petals. One of the characteristics of R. occidentale is that flowers in a single truss will open in sequence rather that

Juvenile plants are loose

Noted author Michael Dirr lists this plant as a cultivar of H

wide over time

The plant will grow in a globe fashion

this 'spire' form will contrast nicely with your other mounding plants

Sometimes flowering over a period of six months

slow growing

The plant has foliage much the same as R

Plant several in a row for the look of old Italy

The flowers are full and strawberry-pink on the edges

This wonderful mounding/spreading winter blooming heath has richer pink flowers than most others of this type

The tree will also cone up well