When it's time to water your Girards Purple Azalea, it's important to water deeply and slowly. This allows the water to penetrate deeply into the soil and reach the roots, rather than just wetting the surface and evaporating. Use a hose, watering can, or drip irrigation system to deliver water slowly and gently to the base of the plant, avoiding getting water directly on the foliage. Root rot is a fungal disease that can be caused by overwatering or poor drainage. Girards Purple Azalea affected by root rot will have weak and yellowing leaves, wilted stems, and brown, mushy roots.

This is a really nice ground cover plant. The flowers are a very bright shade of pink, and there are a ton of them on this small plant. The leaves are dark green with a glossy finish that will last all season long. Because azaleas have been selectively bred for centuries, there are thousands of cultivars, derived from hundreds of species found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Many of the crucial parent species are natives of western China. Extensive hybridization means that new varieties appear every year, including many that are now suitable for northern climates. Coastal azalea’ or Rhododendron atlanticum, is native to the southeast of North America. It has a beautiful growth habit that sprawls a bit wider than it is tall. The flowers are white with pink tips to the petals as well as a pink throat. There are over 800 species of azaleas with more than 10,000 different types. Unlike rhododendrons, azalea shrubs don’t grow as tall as their larger cousins. This makes them a perfect choice for any type of garden, large or small. In fact, some azalea plants are beautiful flowering dwarf cultivars that grow well in containers. Most gardeners find that azaleas are one of the easiest shrubs to grow.

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Native Azaleas in Hong Kong" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-01-23 . Retrieved 2014-05-24. Fireball’ is a taller azalea that has rich orange and red flowers growing at the tips of the branches. The flowers will bloom at the same time as the foliage appears. The leaves open in a shade of bronze. With its bright flowers, this azalea makes quite the spring impact. The foliage is deciduous. After the initial shade of red, the leaves will shift from a rich green to a bronze in the fall before dropping.

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This is a species native to Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East. 2 Rhododendron schlippenbachii Maxim. (n.d.). Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. Retrieved March 10, 2023, from https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:333307-1 Another evergreen azalea in the Encore Series is the ‘Autumn Sunburst.’ This beautiful shrub produces showy, semi-double flowers in the spring. The large blooms are in coral-pink with white ruffled edges. As with all Encore Series Azaleas, they bloom sporadically from spring until the first frost. Rhododendron ‘Autumn Fire’ Generally, azaleas are very easy to care for and are low-maintenance plants. Most azaleas thrive in zones 4 to 10 and some may even withstand zone 3. Plant azaleas where they get partial shade and in well-drained soil. Golden Oriole': This beautiful hybrid member of the Rhododendron genus has a relatively rapid growth rate and produces orange buds leading to golden-yellow flowers in large showy clusters in early spring.