Often, azaleas are grouped alongside their cousins, plant-wise, and that's rhododendrons. Both plants are members of the Ericaceae family. This plant family includes heathers, mountain laurels, pieris ...

The Scottish plant collector Robert Fortune discovered this species in 1856, growing at 3,000 feet in the mountains of eastern China. It was the first Chinese rhododendron introduced to Britain ...

Costa is in the Campbell Rhododendron Gardens in Blackheath ... who wanted to underplant a natural bush area with beautiful exotic plants to show how the two types of plants could work together ...