Rhododendron Species, Alabama Azalea

Hybridizes very freely. To be sure you have one true to type, purchase a shrub in bloom. The good thing about that, however, is it's pote...Read Morential to parent great offsprings, hopefully imparting it's fragrance (the most fragrant azalea) and it's compact growth in your own garden. That's all great, but one of its best attributes is that it can thrive in dry soil! That is a huge pls for me as the only way I've lost azaleas has been due to Summer drought.

Several of these grow in the landscape at the Arnold Arboretum, Boston (Z6a).

Dirr calls this possibly the most fragrant ...Read Moreof the native azaleas, and says that plants in commerce are often not true to name.

This azalea is blooming now, 3-29-12. (Very mild winter here.) Very nice. I haven't seen this color before in the rhodies I'm growing. ...Read Morer /> Also takes Tennessee heat well.

I was lucky enough to see this beautiful plant growing well in a Nature Preserve in Central Louisiana. I thought it smelled like "ananya"...Read More with a lemony overtone. Beautiful yellow splash in the center of a white bloom.