Azalea & Rhododendron
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![Rhododendron 'Aromi Sunrise' azalea, close view of wavy-edged yellow flowers marked with a vivid orange-yellow blotch.]()
![Rhododendron arborescens]()
Rhododendron arborescens 'Early' $23.00 /Early Sweet Azalea
- Zones 5–9
- 8–10 ft
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Rhododendron austrinum 'Alba' $23.00 /White Florida Azalea
- Zones 6–9
- 8–12 ft
Reference plantView details →![Rhododendron austrinum 'Don's Variegated' azalea, rare variegated leaves with a fine gold margin.]()
1 Gallon3 GallonRhododendron austrinum ‘Don’s Variegated’ From $28.00 /Don's Variegated Florida Azalea
- Zones 6–9
- 6–10 ft
![Rhododendron austrinum 'Millie Mac' azalea, white-margined yellow blooms on bare spring branches.]()
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![Rhododendron austrinum 'Varnadoe's Moonbeam' azalea, glowing gold spring trusses against the bare woodland.]()
Rhododendron austrinum 'Varnadoe's Moonbeam' $48.00 /Florida Azalea 'Varnadoe's Moonbeam'
- Zones 7–9
- 6–10 ft
![Rhododendron austrinum pure yellow Florida azalea, luminous yellow spring blooms with extended stamens.]()
![Rhododendron 'Admiral Semmes' azalea, fragrant golden-yellow flowers with long stamens.]()
![Rhododendron 'Stonewall Jackson' Confederate Series azalea, big yellow blooms flushed red-pink.]()
Rhododendron austrinum hybrid 'Stonewall Jackson' $28.00 /'Stonewall Jackson' Azalea
- Zones 6–9
- 8–10 ft
![Rhododendron calendulaceum, flame azalea, a native deciduous shrub offered by Woodlanders.]()
Rhododendron calendulaceum ‘Dawn at the River’ $23.00 /Flame Azalea 'Dawn at the River'
- Zones 5–8
- 6–10 ft
Reference plantView details →![Rhododendron canescens Piedmont azalea in bloom, soft pink and white clusters in the spring woodland.]()
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About the Azalea & Rhododendron Collection
Azaleas and rhododendrons are two branches of a single great genus, Rhododendron, woody shrubs of acid, woodland soil grown above all for their spring flower. Between them they run from low, twiggy, deciduous azaleas, many of them fragrant Southern natives, to bold evergreen rhododendrons with large leaves and full trusses of bloom. What unites them is the flower: massed, vivid, and, at the peak, almost total.
In the landscape they are woodland-edge plants, happiest in the dappled light and cool, humus-rich soil beneath high trees. Grown in drifts they turn a shaded slope or border into a wall of spring color; grown singly they punctuate a bed and, in the evergreen kinds, hold structure and leaf year-round. Their season is short and spectacular, so they are best sited among plants that carry interest before and after the bloom.
We grow azaleas and rhododendrons because they are central to the character of the Southern garden, and because the native azaleas in particular are treasures: fragrant, graceful, and deeply valuable to wildlife. Their flowers feed early pollinators, including the butterflies and native bees that emerge with the spring, and the shrubs themselves shelter the small life of the woodland edge.
Give them acid, moist, well-drained soil, part shade, and a mulch of leaf litter, and never let them dry out or bake in full sun. Plant them with our Camellias for a classic acid-soil, four-season planting, underplant with our Ferns, and find the native kinds among our Southeastern Natives.
