Add bold color and evergreen elegance to your landscape with Rhododendron ‘Purple Passion’, a striking flowering shrub prized for its rich purple blooms accented with soft touches of white. Blooming in mid-season, this vibrant rhododendron creates a dramatic display against glossy deep green foliage, bringing long-lasting beauty and structure to woodland gardens, borders, and foundation plantings.

Its larger mature size makes it an excellent choice for privacy screens, landscape backdrops, and colorful mixed shrub borders. Hardy and easy to maintain, ‘Purple Passion’ offers dependable spring blooms while providing lush evergreen foliage year-round. 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 ‘Purple Passion’ shrub
✔️ Size: approximately 12–15 inches wide
✔️ Healthy, rooted field-grown plant
✔️ Purple flowering evergreen shrub
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Purple Passion Rhododendron
• Botanical Name: Rhododendron ‘Purple Passion’
• Plant Type: Evergreen flowering shrub
• Growth Stage: Established field-grown plant
• Sun Requirements: Partial shade to filtered sun
• Soil: Acidic, moist, well-draining soil
• Watering: Moderate; keep soil evenly moist
• Mature Height: Approximately 7 feet
• Mature Width: 6–7 feet
• Growth Rate: Moderate to vigorous
• USDA Zones: 5–8
• Container Friendly: Yes when young

Care Tip

Apply mulch annually to maintain cool root temperatures and conserve moisture. Light pruning after flowering helps encourage fuller branching and maintain shape.

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.