Add timeless beauty and reliable spring color to your landscape with Rhododendron catawbiense ‘Boursault’, a classic evergreen rhododendron prized for its soft lavender-pink flower clusters and lush green foliage. This hardy variety produces abundant spring blooms that create a stunning display against rich evergreen leaves, bringing year-round texture and elegance to woodland gardens and foundation plantings.

Known for its vigorous growth and dependable performance, ‘Boursault’ is ideal for shaded borders, privacy plantings, and mixed landscape beds. Its broad evergreen form provides lasting structure while remaining easy to shape and maintain with light pruning after flowering. You will receive a healthy field-grown plant similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

You will receive:
1 live Rhododendron catawbiense ‘Boursault’ shrub
Size: approximately 12–15 inches wide
Healthy, rooted field-grown plant
Evergreen flowering landscape shrub
Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Boursault Rhododendron
• Botanical Name: Rhododendron catawbiense ‘Boursault’
• Plant Type: Evergreen flowering shrub
• Growth Stage: Established field-grown plant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun to bright shade
• Soil: Rich, acidic, well-draining soil
• Watering: Moderate; prefers consistent moisture
• Mature Height: Approximately 5–6 feet
• Mature Width: Approximately 6–8 feet
• Growth Rate: Moderate
• USDA Zones: 6–8
• Container Friendly: Yes when young

Care Tip

Mulch around the base to maintain cool soil temperatures and help retain moisture. Prune lightly immediately after flowering if shaping is desired to avoid removing next year’s flower buds.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.