Azalea Planting Recipes
Create Your Own Azalea-Scape
Do you love azaleas as much as we do? These beautiful, blooming, evergreen shrubs provide stunning color during the spring season, and never seem to quit. Plant them as accents or mass plantings, and let them thrive with filtered shade or morning sun.
Our nurseries offer over a dozen varieties to choose from including Encore® or Perfecto Mundo® varieties, which are known for their multi-season, prolific blooms, or our Classic Azalea Collection.
Choose one of the recipes below to incorporate a favorite azalea variety into your landscape. Each combination has its own blend of leaf textures and complementary colors for year-round interest.
Our nurseries offer over a dozen varieties to choose from including Encore® or Perfecto Mundo® varieties, which are known for their multi-season, prolific blooms, or our Classic Azalea Collection.
Choose one of the recipes below to incorporate a favorite azalea variety into your landscape. Each combination has its own blend of leaf textures and complementary colors for year-round interest.
Recipe #1: Azalea 'Coral Bells'
Contrasting colors and interesting textures come together to create this recipe. The bright, lemon-lime green of the Heavenly Bamboo and chartreuse, fluffy, needle-like foliage of the Foxtail Fern against the coral-pink Azalea make for a striking collaboration. Add in the multi-colored fronds of the Autumn Fern for a finishing touch. In spring, new fronds are copper, pink and yellow, changing to green in summer, followed by bronze in autumn. Perfection!
Light Requirement: Morning Sun, Afternoon Shade
Light Requirement: Morning Sun, Afternoon Shade
Recipe #2: Azalea 'White Lace'
Combine different shades and textures of white and green to show off a clean, refreshing look in the garden. The large, pure white blooms of the Azalea 'White Lace' and the fragrant, white blooms of the Gardenia 'Veitchii' contrast with the grass-like foliage of both the Platinum Beauty™ Lomandra which features graceful, mint green leaves with vertical cream striping, and the vibrant, chartreuse-colored narrow blades of the Sedge 'Everillo'. Pure elegance!
Light Requirement: Morning Sun, Afternoon Shade
Light Requirement: Morning Sun, Afternoon Shade
Recipe #3: Azalea 'Red Bird'
Who can resist the red, ruffled blooms of the Azalea ‘Red Bird’? Especially when paired with Abelia ‘Kaleidoscope’ which features golden yellow, variegated leaves on brilliant red stems. Anchor these two colorful extroverts with the more formal style of the Dwarf English Boxwood, whose small, oval, green leaves will provide year-round interest. Add in more textural contrast with the long, strap-like, green leaves and purple flower spikes of the Lily Turf ‘Big Blue’. Red is on trend!
Light Requirement: Morning Sun, Afternoon Shade
Light Requirement: Morning Sun, Afternoon Shade
Recipe #4: Azalea 'Pink Lace'
Pair the small, light-pink blooms with delicate, white edges of the Azalea ‘Pink Lace’ with the dark purple foliage and vibrant, cherry-red flowers of the Fringe Flower ‘Chang Nian Hong’. Add in the Heavenly Bamboo ‘Firepower’ whose foliage will provide an ever-changing palette from red to green to bronze to crimson-red. Provide a backdrop of lush, green, variegated foliage in the form of Hosta, which will add spikes of interest in the form of white or lavender flowers in summer. Pretty in pink!
Light Requirement: Morning Sun, Afternoon Shade
Light Requirement: Morning Sun, Afternoon Shade
