“Anyone with a fondness for bright colors and the courage to fight fashionable purple and gray gardening trends should plant flame azaleas prominently. Even on cloudy days, flame azalea flowers seem ...

On many of the mountains in Western North Carolina, the bright spring flowers have given way to the deep greens of summer. However, in Graham County, high elevations nurture the bright orange of a ...

Flame azalea is one of the magnificent common shrubs found here in the Smokies region. From late spring into early summer flowers are produced in profusion on low-growing twiggy shrubs that are often ...

Double purple Perfecto Mundo azalea brings bright color to spring and late summer-fall gardens. Courtesy National Garden Bureau. Azaleas ...

The vast majority of azaleas that have been blooming so beautifully in our parks and gardens are non-native Asian species. Even iconic southern azalea gardens feature Asian varieties. Amazingly, in ...

When most of us think about azaleas, we envision the transplants from Japan and Korea that grace southern gardens in spectacular fashion in the spring. As flashy as exotic azaleas may be, the less ...

I have been exploring the natural environs of the Florida Panhandle for many years, often returning to favorite spots regularly. Although I assumed I might become bored with the same spots, or the ...

While growing up in Tallahassee, I began to recognize the arrival of spring by the show of white, pink, and fuchsia blooms of azalea shrubs. The house I grew up in had large, mature azalea hedges with ...

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 ...

Q. I am looking to add some native plants to a natural area in my landscape. A friend mentioned planting some native azaleas, but I know relatively nothing about this group of plants. Can you help? A.