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A strange rhododendron like plant from Japan and Korea, it has leaves unlike any Daphne I have ever seen. Rhododendrophyllum might have been more descriptive, there is supposed to be a variegated form, which could be fantastic, but alas I’ve never seen it. Flowers aren’t much but worth growing for the foliage and just to say you grow something in the Daphniphyllacaea, which contains 14 other even more obscure species.

Multitudes of white flowers on compact plants, Dicks are only 2', but literature says a bit more.

Definitely different, with rather small gray-green leaves, this summer flowering shrub produces multitudes of rather small star like flowers in large corymbs, from a distance its reminiscent of baby’s breath. This long blooming plant was distributed in cultivation by the late J.C. Raulston.

A rare Hydrangea relative with large glossy evergreen foliage and terminal clusters of blue lacecap flowers followed by spectacular iridescent indigo blue fruits this clone is from a high altitude Sikkim collection by Bleddyn and Sue Wynn-Jones.

A selection by the great Dutch plantsmen Pieter Zwinenburg, (one of only a handful of people who can walk around the production houses at Arrowhead and recognize virtually everything without reading the labels) rich yellow flowers held in upright clusters above neat well branched foliage that does not flop. This is a great shrub for dry shady locations.