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.
Hemerocallis Encore (Encore Daylily)
Hemerocallis Encore is a variety of the commonly known, Day Lily, and features very showy flowers. The impressive, yellow blooms are only at peak condition for a day or so, but are continually produced through summer. They are held above the strap-like, green leaves as it grows to 40 cm tall and the same wide. Hemerocallis Encore is commonly mass planted as a groundcover, planted around the base of larger trees, included in borders and cottage gardens, or added to a mixed planting.
From $23.39
Azalea indica
Azalea indica is a stunning evergreen shrub admired for its masses of vibrant blooms and compact growth habit. Flowering generously through spring, this popular azalea adds brilliant seasonal colour and year round structure to gardens throughout New Zealand. Its glossy green foliage remains lush and attractive across the seasons, making it ideal for borders, woodland gardens, patios, and container planting. Azalea indica is easy to grow and creates an eye catching feature that suits both traditional and contemporary landscape designs.
From $18.95
