Would you plant azaleas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If not azalea, what’s a low maintenance flowering shrub that is evergreen?

You have just articulated the reason people around here plant non-native azaleas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If not azalea, what’s a low maintenance flowering shrub that is evergreen?

Abelia, several variety of viburnum, some rhododendon, camelia, mahonia, japanese pieris, kalmia, leucothoe

[Anonymous]

weigela is semi evergreen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would skip them. The bright pink can be tacky, people prune them into odd shapes sometimes and they bloom for such a short period of time.

I know what you mean, but it also makes me sad a color found in nature on a flower is considered tacky

[Anonymous]

I love them! I moved into a much colder zone and can’t grow them; it’s one of the things I miss about the area.