Ed's Favorites - Azaleas Evergreen Azaleas For The Northwest Garden Evergreen azaleas are often described as one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs in existence. Needless to say, they certainly are beautiful and have a place in almost every garden. One of the outstanding characteristics of this plant is its prolific flowering habit. Some varieties, when in bloom, are so covered with flowers you can barely see the foliage below. Flower colors range in shades of pink, rose, red, white, scarlet, purple and some that are bi-color.
Some varieties are delicately fragrant.
In addition to the evergreen azaleas there are some showy deciduous, mollis varieties, which certainly have value in the northwest garden. They are best known for their yellow, orange, salmon, scarlet or apricot flowers and attractive autumn leaf color. However today, let's just discuss the evergreen types. Evergreen azaleas vary in growing height from some that are less than one foot in height to others that grow up to ten feet at maturity. Height can be somewhat controlled with simple pruning, which if needed, is done immediately after the plants have finished flowering.