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Jessie Keith
(Rhododendron)
The enormous genus Rhododendron comprises more than a thousand species. They are naturally distributed on every continent except Antarctica, Africa and South America. The highest concentrations of species occur in the temperate and mountainous regions of China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Grown for their showy flowers, rhododendrons are garden favorites worldwide and have been highly hybridized. There are more than 28,000 registered cultivars.
Plants in this genus are extremely variable...
(Bristow Hybrid Azalea, Easter Parade Azalea, Evergreen Azalea)
The double pink and white-flowers of ‘Easter Parade’ are hose-in-hose, which means there is one azalea blossom in another. This medium-sized evergreen to semi-evergreen hybrid shrub is popular for both greenhouse forcing and landscape use.
Its leaves are dark green and slightly hairy. They may drop from the shrub after flowering and are replaced immediately. Its hose-in-hose flowers are funnel-shaped with ruffled edges and are pink with white marbling. The flower buds develop in summer for...
(Evergreen Azalea)
Hybrids that have the East Asian species Rhododendron simsii, Rhododendron indicum, and Rhododendron murconatum in their ancestry, these evergreen azaleas were first developed in the nineteenth century for greenhouse forcing, but they also perform well in the landscape in areas where winters are moderate.
These shrubs are grown for their large long-lasting early- to mid-spring flowers on rounded compact plants. The unscented, funnel-shaped, ruffled blooms are borne...
James Burghardt
(Edith Bosely Rhododendron, Rhododendron)
One of the few rhododendrons to offer deep purple flowers and exceptional cold hardiness, this hybrid cultivar bears its large domed clusters of funnel-shaped blooms in mid-spring. The flowers have a reddish purple rim and throat and a maroon-spotted upper lobe. This upright, rounded, head-high shrub is furnished with elliptic glossy evergreen leaves.
Like most rhododendrons, 'Edith Bosley' prefers some shade and a highly organic acid soil that is evenly moist but well-drained. Plant it shallowly...
(Edith Boulter Rhododendron, Rhododendron)
Bearing showy flowers at the very start of the rhododendron season, this hybrid cultivar produces large spherical clusters of lavender-pink blooms in early spring. The wide-flaring, funnel-shaped flowers have frilly margins of a darker hue. This dense, rounded, shoulder-high shrub is furnished with elliptic glossy evergreen leaves.
Like most rhododendrons, 'Edith Boulter' prefers some shade and a highly organic acid soil that is evenly moist but well-drained. Plant it shallowly and mulch well...
Bosh Bruening
(Catawba Rosebay, Edwin O. Webber Rhododendron, Rhododendron)
Edwin O. Webber rhododendron has large, showy clusters (trusses) of tubular, broad, bell-shaped
flowers of purple. This large, dense, broadleaf evergreen shrub has large, glossy, dark green leaves that can suffer from sun and wind damage if left too exposed in the winter months. Most rhododendron thrive in sites with part shade and moist, acidic, highly organic soil that is perfectly drained. They are susceptible to a wide variety of fungal diseases and insect pests and will be more at risk if...
Auburn University Horticulture Department, Auburn, AL
(Eikan Azalea, Evergreen Azalea, Satsuki Azalea)
The Satsuki Azalea ‘Eikan' is a broadleaf evergreen shrub that bears large single ruffled snowy white blooms that are striped, spotted, or tinged with salmon-pink. The many funnel shaped blooms occur in few-flowered clusters in mid- to late spring. The small leaves are elliptical and glossy green. The low slow-growing plants are spreading, well branched and dense.
Prized for their large flowers and compact habit, Satsuki Azaleas descend from Rhododendron indicum, Rhododendron...
Bosh Bruening
(Back Acres Azalea, Elise Norfleet Azalea, Evergreen Azalea)
The Back Acre Hybrids are a series of compact, evergreen azaleas hybridized by Ben Morrison -- developer of the Glenn Dale azaleas -- after his retirement to Pass Christian, Mississippi, in 1964. The low-growing cultivar 'Elise Norfleet' bears scarlet flowers with pink centers in spring.
Like most evergreen azaleas, this cultivar needs partial shade and moist, humus-rich, acidic soil. It works well in shade gardens and mixed borders as well as sweeping masses in foundation beds. The petite...
Bosh Bruening
(Elite Rhododendron, PJM Rhododendron, Rhododendron)
One of the popular Rhododendron PJM hybrids, ‘Elite’ is vigorous growing, upright in form and blooms late in the spring. The flowers are bright lavender-pink and the foliage takes on burgundy-red hues in the winter.
Touted to be among the hardiest, easiest to grow and heaviest blooming rhododendrons, the PJM Hybrids are popular and widely planted. They are compact, evergreen and result from a cross between the North American R. minus var. minus Carolinianum...
Gerald L. Klingaman
(Elsie Lee Azalea, Evergreen Azalea, Shammarello Azalea)
Azalea ‘Elsie Lee’ bears very large blooms of soft blue-lavender in the late spring. The flowers are semi-double, widely funnel-shaped and have frilly edges. The plants are low-growing, spreading and compact. Evergreen leaves are broadly elliptic, glossy and moderate yellow-brown-green when mature.
Anthony Shammarello of Euclid, Ohio spent decades starting in the 1930s selecting and testing rhododendron hybrids. He was looking for plants with exceptional cold hardiness, a neat habit and characteristics...
