How To Care For Azaleas
A post for our green-fingered friends:
Summary: Azalea plants are excellent and brilliant landscape plants and growing azaleas is not difficult – easy grow, propagate and transplant.
Question: We have heard azalea plants make good plants for use in our landscape to get started with some basic planting. How difficult are azaleas to grow and care for? Marisa, Corvallis, Oregon
Answer: Marisa, azalea plants are excellent plants for the landscape.
Many people wrinkle their forehead and scratch their head wondering
what plants to choose for their basic garden plantings? Take my advice:
consider first, the azaleas.
Out of flower azaleas remain extremely attractive and in flower they’re absolutely gorgeous. Besides that, they’re:
In our garden, azaleas have gradually taken over more and more of the available space, not because we planned it that way but because they proved so completely satisfactory that we wanted larger and larger plantings of them.
They seemed to offer everything we wanted in spring blooming, all-year-round-attractive plants, and so we kept buying and propagating more. They’ve become the feature attraction of our garden.
Personally, I prefer these so-called evergreen kinds because…
Azalea Mollis is the most popular of the deciduous type and would be a good type to try next, followed by some of the less common deciduous species and varieties.
The evergreen Kurume and Kaempferi varieties make up our own collection, which range in color from pure white to deepest red.
We found it easy to work out effective color schemes with these plants and have never been confronted by problems of clashing colors.
We have used them grouped together for mass effect and have found them wonderfully useful for filling in around larger shrubs like rhododendrons and camellias.
There seems to be no limit, in fact, to the uses to which these plants can be put. ..........................
A post for our green-fingered friends:
Summary: Azalea plants are excellent and brilliant landscape plants and growing azaleas is not difficult – easy grow, propagate and transplant.
Question: We have heard azalea plants make good plants for use in our landscape to get started with some basic planting. How difficult are azaleas to grow and care for? Marisa, Corvallis, Oregon
Answer: Marisa, azalea plants are excellent plants for the landscape.
Flowering Azalea plants in Spring
Out of flower azaleas remain extremely attractive and in flower they’re absolutely gorgeous. Besides that, they’re:
- Permanent
- Inexpensive
- Easy to care for
- Easy to propagate
- Easy to transplant
In our garden, azaleas have gradually taken over more and more of the available space, not because we planned it that way but because they proved so completely satisfactory that we wanted larger and larger plantings of them.
They seemed to offer everything we wanted in spring blooming, all-year-round-attractive plants, and so we kept buying and propagating more. They’ve become the feature attraction of our garden.
Two Kinds Of Azalea Bushes
Azaleas are of two kinds, deciduous and evergreen, although in the colder parts of the country the evergreen varieties lose at least part of their foliage.Personally, I prefer these so-called evergreen kinds because…
- They include a much wider color range
- They are more compact growing
- Generally are easier to grow and to propagate
Azalea Mollis is the most popular of the deciduous type and would be a good type to try next, followed by some of the less common deciduous species and varieties.
The evergreen Kurume and Kaempferi varieties make up our own collection, which range in color from pure white to deepest red.
We found it easy to work out effective color schemes with these plants and have never been confronted by problems of clashing colors.
We have used them grouped together for mass effect and have found them wonderfully useful for filling in around larger shrubs like rhododendrons and camellias.
There seems to be no limit, in fact, to the uses to which these plants can be put. ..........................
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