JARS v44n4 - Plant Award List
Plant Award List
From time to time you will notice hybrid rhododendron names with the initials SPA or AE after them. This designates hybrids that have earned the designations Superior Plant Award (SPA) or Award of Excellence (AE) through the plant award system of the American Rhododendron Society. Printed below is a list of all hybrids so honored through 1989. Howard Slonecker, Portland Chapter member, is ARS Plant Awards Committee Chairman.
| Superior Plant Award (SPA) | ||
| 'Ginny Gee' | SPA, NW | 1985 |
| 'Lem's Cameo' | SPA | 1971 |
| 'Party Pink' | SPA, GL | 1983 |
| 'Patty Bee' | SPA, NW | 1985 |
| 'Trude Webster' | SPA | 1971 |
| Award of Excellence (AE) | ||
| 'Annie Dalton' | AE | 1960 |
| 'Atroflo' | AE | 1959 |
| 'Beechwood Pink' | AE | 1960 |
| 'Blue River' | AE | 1961 |
| 'Cadis' | AE | 1959 |
| 'Carolyn Grace' | AE | 1960 |
| 'Catalode' | AE | 1960 |
| 'Cutie' | AE | 1962 |
| 'Cyprus' | AE, GL | 1983 |
| 'David Gable' | AE | 1960 |
| R. degronianum | AE | 1956 |
| 'Gi Gi' | AE | 1973 |
| 'Golden Bee' | AE, NW | 1984 |
| 'Hallelujah' | AE, NW | 1982 |
| 'Julia Grothaus' | AE, NW | 1988 |
| 'Ken Janeck' | AE | 1969 |
| 'Kim' | AE | 1973 |
| 'Lemon Mist' | AE | 1969 |
| 'Lodestar' | AE, GL | 1982 |
| 'Luxor' | AE, GL | 1987 |
| 'Maricee' | AE | 1959 |
| 'Mary Fleming' | AE | 1973 |
| 'Mary Harmon' | AE | 1958 |
| 'Meadowbrook' | AE | 1973 |
| 'Mrs. A.F. McEwan' | AE | 1956 |
| 'Mrs. Donald Graham' | AE | 1958 |
| 'Opal Fawcett' | AE | 1958 |
| 'Parker's Pink' | AE | 1973 |
| 'Roslyn' | AE | 1973 |
| 'Scintillation' | AE | 1973 |
| 'Swansdown' | AE, GL | 1983 |
| 'Taurus' | AE, NW | 1988 |
| 'Too Bee' | AE, NW | 1989 |
| 'Tyee' | AE | 1960 |
| 'Wee Bee' | AE, NW | 1989 |
| 'Wheatley' | AE | 1973 |
| 'Windbeam' | AE | 1973 |
| 'Wizard' | AE | 1959 |
Regional Descriptions: (Adopted in 1976
Northeast (NE) Middle Atlantic(MA) Southern (S) Great Lakes (GL) Northwest (NW) Northern California (NC) Southern California (SC).
