Azalea Splendor
Posted: March 19, 2018 Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Automatic Gardening, Azaleas, Gardening, Gulf Coast gardening, Southern Gardening, subtropical climate, Subtropical Gardening, Year-round gardening 29 Comments*******************
One of my most viewed posts is Azaleas. This year has been a spectacular year for these flowering shrubs. It may have been the record breaking rainfall and also a cool start to Spring with cold nights causing the blooms to stay longer. I have taken pictures over several days to get the Azaleas at their best. Enjoy their splendor!
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The salmon-colored ones are my favorites. There’s a huge — truly, huge — bush in a friend’s neighborhood that’s pure white. I ought to get over and take a photo of it, but I see we have a good line of storms headed our way, and wind and rain may beat them off the bush before I get there. I have noticed how profuse all of them have been this year, and I’m glad that the flowers have lingered longer than I remember from the past. Yours certainly are gorgeous.
The white can be really striking.
These really are gorgeous. I used to have azaleas at my previous home, but they don’t do well here, and I really miss the way they effortlessly welcome spring.
I think all the pine trees keep them happy here.
Yes, that’s what I used to have. Don’t miss them a bit though as we had 27 come down during an ice storm one winter, half hit the house. I can still smell that pine tree aroma.
I have been lucky so far.
It’s joyous when everything comes together! Your co-creation is beautiful!
It has been weeks of joy this year.
They are beautiful. There’s an art to pruning them and I can tell you know how to do it.
Do you have any tips on how to keep azaleas looking this wonderful? Feeding? Soil enrichments? Pruning? These look so happy. How did you do that?
They really grow well here which makes it easy. They do like acid soil. Mine are 17 years old and 6 feet tall. I only prune the really long stems they send up sometimes. I fertilize with azalea food after they bloom about 2 times a month apart.
Thanks. I will write that down.
Oh my goodness, your garden is beautiful: a glorious woodland setting. And those azaleas are just beautiful. I don’t seem to be able to grow them here, probably it’s just too hot and dry in the summer, so I’m enjoying seeing yours.
They really like it here and almost every house has some.
Those are just beautiful!
I have really enjoyed them this year.
One of the disadvantages of growing rhododendrons and azaleas is that all the best bloomers go away. They leave before they bloom. We have plenty bloomers out in the stock plant area, landscape and arboretum though. Of course, they do not stand out so well where the forest tries to overwhelm them.
Beautiful!! Worth the wait each year!
It is!
Splendor, indeed! Thanks for sharing your pretties. We don’t have that particular show here in Austin!
But you have Texas Mountain Laurel.
Ok, this is a double wow. Is this your property? This is gorgeous.
Yes, we bought one of the last big lots in our community. About 1/4 of the lot is wooded and we added the azaleas around the trees.
And to glorious effect.
Wow, they are beautiful. Your yard looks so wonderfully relaxing. I want to sit in it for a few quiet minutes with a glass of iced tea.
I have a nice big front porch with swings, rockers and azalea view.
Spectacular!
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Beautiful👌