Azalea Bushes
Boudoir
This watermelon-pink type is probably the hardiest of all pink Azaleas! Gable hybrid. Blooms mid May.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 9
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3' - 4'
Width: 3' - 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Pink
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil
Cascade
This vigorous growing, white flowered Azalea blooms in mid May. Cascade is a strong, spreading grower, to 4 feet in 10 years.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 9
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3' - 4'
Width: 3' - 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: White
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil
Corsage
It typically matures over time in an upright-rounded form to 3-4' tall and as wide. Broadly funnel-shaped, single lavender flowers bloom in clusters around May 10th.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 9
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 4'
Width: 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Purple
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil
Ethelwyn
Clear pink single blooms cover the shrub starting in early May. Grown from cuttings taken from a home in Barberton, Ohio!
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 9
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 5' - 6'
Width: 4' - 5'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Pink
Bloom Time: Spring
Fedora
‘Fedora’ grows 4 to 10 ft. high and 5 to 10 ft. wide. Developed in the Netherlands, it is a hybrid of R. kaempferi and R. ‘Malvatica’ and has large deep purplish pink flowers.
Hardiness Zone: 6 - 9
Light Requirements: Partial Sun
Height: 4' - 10'
Width: 5' - 10'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Pink
Bloom Time: Spring
Attracts Pollinators, Rabbit Resistant
Girards Crimson
This Azalea will sit nicely at the front of any garden. Bright green new foliage in late spring.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3'
Width: 24"
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Red
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil
Girards Hot Shot
Vigorous and bold, this Girard hybrid is covered with brick-red flowers in May. Similar to Stewartsonian.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 24" - 4'
Width: 3' - 5'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Pink, Red
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil
Girards Rose
Extremely hardy evergreen Azalea with deep rose-red flowers in the spring and red tinted fall foliage. A vigorous plant adaptable to the South and colder climates. Matures at 2 to 3 feet high and 3 to 4 feet wide.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 24" - 3'
Width: 3' - 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Red
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Attracts Pollinators, Acidic Soil
Herbert
Hands down, this dark double purple Azalea is one of the most winter hardy and easiest to grow! Blooms after Azalea ‘Karen’ in late May.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3'
Width: 3'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Purple
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil
Hino Crimson
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 24" - 3'
Width: 3'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Red
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil
Jacquelin Dark Pink
Beautiful Dark pink blooms
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3' - 4'
Width: 3' - 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Pink
Bloom Time: Spring
Jacquelin Light Pink
Discovered in a backyard in Barberton, Ohio, these reliably hardy compact and dependably floriferous May blooming Azaleas are well worth planting in any garden or landscape. Sports clusters of single flowers that are almost white with a slight, noticeable pink blush. Compact.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3' - 4'
Width: 3' - 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Pink
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil
Jacquelin Double Pink
Discovered in a backyard in Barberton, Ohio, these reliably hardy compact and dependably floriferous May blooming Azaleas are well worth planting in any garden or landscape. Similar to Azalea Rosebud only with a more rounded leaf on a plant more uniformly high and wide then Rosebud. Compact.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3' - 4'
Width: 3' - 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Pink
Bloom Time: Spring
Snowball
Clusters of white flowers cover this almost deciduous variety in mid-May. More tolerant to winter sun and wind than others. Easy to grow and hardy!
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 24" - 3'
Width: 24" - 3'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: White
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil
Stewartsonian
A Joe Gable hybrid bred over 50 years ago in Stewartstown, PA. One of the most reliably hardy red Azaleas. Brick-red flowers cover this shrub in mid-May.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 4'
Width: 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Red
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil
Klondyke
Sweet Sixteen
A Knap Hill hybrid with large, golden-orange flowers. Young foliage is coppery-red.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 4' - 5'
Width: 4' - 5'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Orange
Fall Color: Red
Bloom Time: Spring
Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Sixteen
Pearly pink, almost iridescent blooms cover this hardy shrub in spring. The dark flower stamens contrast nicely with the flower petals. You will love the color of this bright & cheerful variety!
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 4'
Width: 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Pink
Bloom Time: Spring
Golden Lights
Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Sixteen
Introduced for its golden flowers which are smaller than 'Northern Lights'. The foliage is also more resistant to mildew than 'Northern Lights', and displays great fall color. Covered with bright yellow
flowers late May to early June.
Hardiness Zone: 4 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3' - 5'
Width: 3' - 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Yellow
Fall Color: Red
Bloom Time: Spring
Mandarin Lights
A deciduous Azalea with bright mandarin-orange flowers in May.
Hardiness Zone: 4 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 4' - 5'
Width: 4' - 5'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Orange
Fall Color: Red
Bloom Time: Spring
Karen
One of the hardiest & easiest to grow evergreen azaleas with beautiful, bright purple flowers in May. Mounding habit.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3'
Width: 3'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Purple
Bloom Time: Spring
Louise Gable
Arneson's Gem
Long, pointed dark green leaves show off the very pretty semi-double salmon-pink flowers in mid to late May. Although it is a Gable hybrid known for its hardiness, Louise Gable does well with some winter protection.
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 9
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3'
Width: 3'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Pink
Bloom Time: Spring
Arneson's Gem
Arneson's Gem
Arneson's Gem
Red buds open to large, yellow-orange flowers, shading to reddish orange at the margins in a prolific mid-season display. Disease-resistant foliage turns red in fall. Upright, compact habit.
Plant Type: Shrub
Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
Light Requirements: Partial Sun, Sun
Height: 3'
Width: 4'
Foliage Color: Green
Bloom Color: Orange, Yellow
Fall Color: Red
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes: Acidic Soil