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 Autumn Lilac (Autumn Lilac Azalea)
Azalea Autumn Lilac is grown for its lovely form and profuse flowering. This hardy, evergreen shrub produces masses of fragrant, large and showy, purple blooms through winter and spring as it grows to 1 m tall and the same wide. Azalea Autumn Lilac 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 cottage gardens, or using anywhere a stunning plant is required. Mass planting provides for an amazing display with this variety.
Azalea Autumn Starlite (Autumn Starlite Azalea)
Azalea Autumn Starlite is grown for its lovely form and profuse flowering in spring and autumn. This hardy, evergreen shrub produces masses of large and showy, white flowers with pink speckles and stripes as it grows to 1 m tall and 1.2 m wide. Azalea Autumn Starlite 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 cottage gardens, or using anywhere a stunning plant is required.
