Our Favorite Azaleas

Plant Specialist Joel Cooke discusses his favorite azalea types for a variety of gardens and bloom times. Knowing which type of azalea you are picking out when shopping at the garden center can help ensure that you get the results you want after planting the azalea in your own garden.

Types Covered in this video:
Joseph Hill: A low growing, late blooming variety that can be used more as a groundcover.
Coral Bells: The earliest blooming variety of azalea
Christy Lynn: Distinctive variegated foliage
Stewartstonian - Large growing with a red flower and purplish red foliage in the winter
Girard's Rose - Large leaves with good foliage retention and color through the winter
Encore Azalea and Bloomathon: Repeat bloomers that bloom in spring, sporadically through the summer and in fall