AZALEAS

This is a slow-growing and choice, compact deciduous shrub with a somewhat horizontally branched and rounded habit. The small and rounded leaves are deep green, quite hairy and color up quite attractively in the autumn. The exquisite deep rose-purple flowers (mid-spring) are small and bell-shaped, hanging in showy clusters beneath the newly emerging foliage. Perfect in a woodland garden but also quite successful in full sun if well-watered. These are seedlings from our own named selection 'Plum Drops'. This is a stunning and very slow-growing species native to Japan. Rarely offered.

Note: formerly Menziesia ciliicalyx 'Plum Drops'

A relatively newly described deciduous azalea native to that is very rare in the wild and is currently known only from South Carolina. An excellent selection of this deciduous species with very fragrant, white flushed pink flowers in late spring. Rarely offered, a real treasure. 

 A low-growing, mounding semi-evergreen azalea with glossy and hairy diamond-shaped foliage. Pale lavender flowers in early summer. A rare species in cultivation that should have good heat tolerance. A great dwarf species with beautiful foliage that forms a neat little mounding shrub with very tight and compact growth - wider than high. Sun and shade tolerant and so far, relatively hardy. Native to mixed forests in SE China at around 2,000 ft. Large plants this year.

A new introduction into cultivation. This species is an evergreen azalea native to a small area in southern Yunnan Province, China. It has attractive shiny and elliptic leaves that grow in pseudowhorls at the ends of the branches. The rose-purple flowers (early summer) are arranged in dense terminal clusters and have darker spots. An excellent new species with a dense and compact growth habit. Best in sun or light shade. These are grown from seed collected in the wild. 

An evergreen azalea with rose-red to bright scarlet flowers in early summer. This clone grown from seed collected wild in Japan. A heat tolerant species with very narrow, fine-textured foliage. An amazing and eye-catching textural plant.

This is a form of R. indicum with much narrower foliage and with a very compact growth habit, found along the Otakumi River in Yakushima, Japan. Salmon-orange flowers with split narrow petals in early summer. It is a shy bloomer, but worth growing just for the foliage. This is a heat-tolerant species that makes a great container specimen. 

 An easily-grown and floriferous evergreen to semi-deciduous azalea native to Japan. This is an unusual form with reddish, extremely narrow petals on the spidery flowers. Both heat and cold tolerant and performs admirably in sun or shade. A fine selection.

A low-growing and mounding evergreen azalea with deep green, small leaves. A very easily grown species, floriferous and adaptable to a wide range of conditions. Native to mountain slopes in Japan and quite variable with many selected forms. Cherry-red flowers with contrasting white stamens on this clone collected wild in Japan.