Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long azalea hedge with colorful blooms - charlestondavid/Shutterstock An ideal hedge is dense ...

Every year around Mothers Day in the Boston suburbs, a welcome profusion of color bursts forth, even on branches that looked dead only a few weeks ago. Days are more consistently warm, the sun feels ...

Evergreen azaleas are one of the most popular of the partial-shade-loving plants, but their deciduous cousins, a group known as Exbury hybrids, have largely flown under the radar. Exbury azaleas' ...

We gardeners have plenty of evergreen options to help with our azalea and rhododendron addictions, but a deciduous azalea specimen offers a different look with brighter, more colorful flower options, ...

Azaleas rank among the most common plants we grow in our Southern landscapes. According to the Azalea Society of America, more than 10,000 varieties of azaleas have been registered. With so many ...

Azaleas light up gardens in spring with a profusion of colors. They are easy to grow, come in a wide range of colors and if you choose your varieties carefully, you can have blooms from late February ...

It’s not spring — not really — until the azaleas bloom. But when they do, it’s an explosion of color and drama, like the grand finale in a Wagnerian opera. Lavender, mauve, pink, white, orange, ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. The azalea ...

JUDGING by the numbers of buds on Japanese evergreen azaleas, this is going to be a bumper year for flowers when they open soon. These little plants flower in April and May, over a period of several ...

Is it a rhododendron or an azalea? It can be puzzling because all azaleas are rhododendrons, but not all rhododendrons are azaleas. Both plants are woody, rounded shrubs in the Ericaceae (blueberry) ...