best encore azaleas
Looking for the best encore azaleas to bring lasting colour and vibrancy to your New Zealand garden? Encore azaleas are prized for their ability to flower more than once a year, creating beautiful displays from spring right through to autumn. With their hardy nature and dazzling blooms, these versatile shrubs are a favourite for creating hedges, borders, or eye-catching specimens. Whether you’re drawn to the bold hues, compact growth habits, or low maintenance appeal, this guide will help you discover the best encore azaleas for your outdoor space.
Azalea Gardenia Supreme
Azalea Gardenia Supreme is a popular variety due to its lovely form and profuse flowering through winter and spring. This hardy, evergreen shrub produces masses of large and showy, lightly scented, semi-double, pure white flowers. It typically grows to 75 cm tall and the same wide. Azalea Gardenia Supreme is a great choice for adding to a mixed or border planting, planting around outdoor living areas such as pool and barbecue area, including in white or cottage gardens, or using anywhere a stunning plant is required.
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Azalea indica
This variety of Azalea grown for its lovely form and profuse flowering. This hardy, evergreen shrub produces masses of small and showy, lightly scented, single, rose-pink blooms from winter until late spring. These are held abreast of the glossy, dark green foliage. It typically grows to 1.5 m tall and the same wide, performing best when planted in a semi-shade or full sun position on a well-drained, sheltered site. It is tolerant of frost and cool climates but does require good soil moisture levels during dry periods and should be protected from heavy frost while establishing. When fertilising, avoid using lime as this will stunt or even kill plants. This is a great choice for container growing, adding to a mixed planting, using in borders, planting around the base of larger trees, or planting anywhere a stunning plant is required. Cluster planting is very trendy and gives a highly colourful display.
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