This vigorous growing selection blooms in May with small trusses of pale yellow flowers edged in pink. This pastel display comes just before leaves emerge and adds great scent to the garden

You’ve heard of Hollywood and Dollywood and now you have Bollywood Star™, a plant as starworthy and flamboyant as ‘Holly’ & ‘Dolly’ but you won’t have to make a pilgrimage to see it…you can plant it right in your own landscape! Bollywood Star™ boasts deep, dark, lustrous green foliage surrounded by creamy-silver margins that would make this plant jump out of the garden even without flowers. But, rest assured, Bollywood Star™ is no shrinking violet when it comes to bloom as it explodes into an Oscar® worthy display of rich neon pink-red flowers that will light up your garden like a theatre marquee in early May. Another great Bollywood Star™ trait: it stays dense and compact meaning it will perform in a small landscape space without feeling like it has been relegated to a forgotten, less starworthy spot of your landscape. This plant loves morning sun and afternoon shade, protection from the prevailing winter winds and will put on an even better show grouped to present a chorus of color that will have you on your feet cheering!

One of the most dependable and colorful of azaleas in the northeast, this dense growing beauty explodes with a sea of salmon-pink flowers in mid-May. It’s a perfect plant for foundation use or for grouping along woodlines when naturalizing.

You’ll appreciate ‘Bixby’ for its easy going, low spreading habit, not reaching more than 2′ tall at maturity, but you’ll love ‘Bixby’ for its profusion of deep red clusters of buds in mid May that combust into magnificent scarlet blooms that will absolutely blow away the flower power on any other dwarf Azalea. This hardy poukhanense selection was first developed in central Massachusetts, so you know it will more than tolerate our harsh and unpredictable New England climate and still erupt into bloom dependably despite winter’s cold and wind! It’s a compact, slow-growing dwarf that is perfect for morning sun, afternoon shade locations and for smaller landscapes where the tight space will find it hard to contain its ferocious bloom!

It’s hard to ignore the outstanding variegated foliage on this selection that provides color and crispness throughout the growing season. Deep green foliage edged in white forms a dense, round, spreading shape in the landscape that is at home in any wind-protected, partially shaded landscape spot. In mid-May hundreds of fat, branch ending buds open to large, rose red flowers that keep the foliage in the background for 2 to 3 weeks as they cover the plant.

Here’s an old variety that keeps on being asked about for obvious reasons. One look at its mid-May blooming, double, silvery-pink, hose-in-hose flowers will completely captivate you. These little, rose-like flowers densely cover a dense rounded plant that is perfect for any morning sun landscape spot.

Mounding and spreading, this variety provides a virtuoso display of 1-2″ diameter lavender hose-in-hose flowers in mid-May. One of the hardiest evergreen azaleas, this plant is suited both for foundation planting or border groupings. Dependable, spectacular bloom. Showy red hue to fall and winter foliage.

Exceptional reddish-purple flowers in early to mid-May, along with dark glossy foliage really make this selection stand out! Very hardy with excellent winter leaf retention.

Brilliant color is this Azalea’s calling card with huge, deep rose-pink flowers that completely cover the plant in mid May. Very hardy with excellent winter leaf retention. Dense, compact form makes this selection easy to grow in a multitude of landscape spots.

This selection produces large, silver-pink fl owers that are surrounded by greenish wine-red bracts. Excellent fi ller plant for a moist area in sun or part shade. Works wonderfully around ponds or bog gardens. Deadheading the fl owers after blooming will encourage a rebloom and will also help to reduce self-seeding.