Garden Heights Features...
Azaleas
The following are a few of the Azaleas for Spring 2004
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When Azaleas bloom, the flowers are so profuse the entire plant is blanketed with color. The leaves are usually small, narrow and pointed, often with small hairs on the edges.
Azaleas prefer well-drained and acidic to slightly alkaline soil. Use mulch and a peat moss soil additive. Roots will rot in poorly drained soil. Will not do well in windy sites.
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'Delaware Valley White'
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'The 'Delaware Valley White' Azalea is a dense, spreading plant with numerous single, 2" white flowers that blooms in early spring.
The growth habitis dense and spreading up to 6' in height with green foliage. It prefers sun to part shade.
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The 'Girard Crimson' Azalea is a dense, compact plant with large, glossy green foliage that has a nice winter color. The large (2-1/2"), crimson flowers cover the plant. This shrub blooms early to midspring.
Growth Habit: Dense, Compact, Less than 6' in height. The foliage has large, glossy, green leaves and has nice winter color. This azalea also prefers sun to part shade.
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'Girard Crimson'
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'Herbert'
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The 'Herbert' Azalea is a dense, spreading plant with numerous small violet flowers that blooms early to midspring.
Growth Habit: Dense, Compact, Less than 6' in height. The foliage is green and prefers sun to part shade.
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'Girard Roberta' has large double, rich pink ruffled petals up to 3 inches across. It is a moderate grower from 2 to 4 ft. tall and 3 to 5 ft. wide.It thrives in cold climates! It is a premier flowering shrub for use as hedge, walkway border or in massed planting for impressive color display. Semi-evergreen. Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Provide well drained soil, rich in organic matter. Feed with an acid fertilizer after bloom. Keep roots cool with a thick layer of mulch. Flowering Time/Season Late March through early April.
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'Girard Roberta'
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'Poukhanense Compacta'
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'Poukhanense Compacta'
This semi-evergreen azalea has purple flowers that are slightly fragrant. They grow 4' to 5'. They have a broad-spreading dark green foliage in the summer, that changes to reddish-bronze in the fall. In the Spring it has an almost "starburst" limb structure that is most appealing. It will take part shade to full sun.
In the afternoons the light purple flowers are very fragrant. They are at their height of beauty for approximately three weeks.
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'Gibraltar' Exbury Azalea is a deciduous Azalea that is very hardy. It has bright orange-red flowers with frilled petals bloom in May in tight ball-shaped cluster. The foliage is green which turns shades of yellow, orange and red in the fall. It will grow 6-7' in height, 3-4' in width. It prefers sun to partial shade.
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'Gibraltar' Exbury Azalea
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Exbury 'Mandarin Lights' is a Northern Lights, which is a decidous Azalea that is very hardy. It is a compact plant with 1 1/2" fragrant mandarin-orange flowers that appear in clusters of up to 12 flowers that blooms in May.
It is an upright, rounded shrub approximately 4-5' in height and 4'-5' wide.
Foliage: Green, Deciduous.
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